Madonna Dunkin Donuts

Madonna Dunkin Donuts, Name: Madonna
Birthdate: August 16, 1958
Birthplace: Bay City, Michigan

Material Girl, Sex Pioneer, Kabbalist, Trendsetter, Mom, and now 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee, she is the MTV sweetheart who has defined three decades of female progressiveness and fashions. She’s the controversial star whose videos have been banned and whose commercials have been pulled by advertisers. All of these are part of the complicated legacy of the artist known simply known by one name: Madonna.

Born in Michigan in 1958, she left a dance scholarship at the University of Michigan 20 years later to pursue her dream in New York City. She almost didn’t make it, but managed to squeeze out a few lucky breaks and started building her eventually stratospheric career as a singer, not a dancer. She was signed to do her first album in 1982 for Sire Records following a successfully club debut of her single “Everybody.”

The rest might be history, but it’s sure not yet written in stone. The dynamo re-invents herself with dizzying regularity and almost guaranteed success. She has had 12 #1 singles — only Mariah Carey has more. And even though her career is well in to it’s 4th decade, she doesn’t show any sign of slowing down.

Mother to three children, Lourdes, Rocco and David Banda, Madonna is busy with numerous music and film projects, including her latest studio project for LiveNation, due out in 2008.

Madonna has two middle names – Louise and Veronica. And yes, Madonna is her real first name.

Before she was the Material Girl, Madonna a high school cheerleader.

Madonna arrived in New York with about $35 in her pocket, and at one time, even reportedly worked for Dunkin’ Donuts to make ends meet.

After graduating high school, Madonna received a dance scholarship to the University of Michigan.

Our Lady Of Lourdes

Our Lady Of Lourdes, ONE of the most renowned apparitions of our Blessed Mother happened in Lourdes, France. On February 11, 1858, the Blessed Mother appeared to a girl named Bernadette Soubrious. Her family was one of the poorest in town and Bernadette was sickly girl, uneducated but had a pure heart.

Bernadette went with her sisters Toinette and Jeanne Abadie to collect some firewood and bones in order to buy some bread. After taking off her shoes and stockings to wade through the water near the Grotto of Massabielle, she said she heard the sound of two gusts of wind but the trees and bushes nearby did not move.

She said she saw a light in the grotto and a girl, as small as she was, dressed all in white apart from the blue belt fastened around her waist and the golden yellow roses, one on each foot, the color of her rosary.

Amazed, Bernadette made the sign of the Cross and prays the rosary with the Lady who disappeared without saying anything.

Altogether, there were 18 apparitions of Our Lady to Bernadette in Lourdes. Three days after on February 14, sensing an inner call, Bernadette returned to the Grotto “to see if I was not deluded”. She begins her rosary and blesses herself with holy water; the Lady smiled at her without saying a word.

February 18, Thursday of Holy Week, she asked the Lady to write her name. The Lady answered: “It is not necessary,” and adds, “Would you be kind enough to come here for fifteen days? I can promise you that I cannot make you happy in this world but in the other.”

On Good Friday, accompanied by her mother and aunt, Bernadette came to the Grotto with a candle. The following day, 30 people came to see Bernadette in ecstasy. They were impressed by her calmness, her fervor and her joy.

Easter Sunday, February 21, a hundred people started to mill in the apparition site in the early morning to see Bernadette. The police who were unbelieving looked on.

February 23, at 5:30 a.m., 150 people, including Mr. Estrada, a tax collector who was critical and skeptical, saw Bernadette in ecstasy. He was moved by the experience and started telling the people about it.

The people doubled in number for the 8th apparition on February 24th. This time, when Bernadette was in ecstacy, her face expressed unutterable sadness reflecting that of Our Lady who told her: “Penance. Pray to God for the conversion of sinners. Go kiss the earth in penitence for sinners.”

Lourdes is famous for the healing powers of the water from the Grotto. It was on the 9th apparition February 25th that Bernadette discovered the source. There were more than 300 people, including dignitaries, who waited expectantly to see the ecstatic, radiant Bernadette.

Mia Middle Finger

Mia Middle Finger, The NFL and a major television network are apologizing for another Super Bowl halftime show. There was no wardrobe malfunction, nothing like that glimpse of Janet Jackson’s nipple eight years ago that caused an uproar and a government scrutiny.

Instead, it was an extended middle finger from British singer M.I.A. during Sunday night’s performance of Madonna’s new single, “Give Me All Your Luvin.'”

In front of some 110 million viewers on NBC and uncounted others online, she flipped the bird and appeared to sing, “I don’t give a (expletive)” at one point, though it was hard to hear her clearly.

The NFL and NBC wasted little time in responding.

“The obscene gesture in the performance was completely inappropriate, very disappointing and we apologize to our fans,” said Brian McCarthy, spokesman for the NFL, which produced Madonna’s halftime show.

The risque moment came during the biggest TV event of the year. The screen briefly went blurred after M.I.A.’s gesture in what was a late attempt – by less than a second – to cut out the camera shot.

“The NFL hired the talent and produced the halftime show,” NBC spokesman Christopher McCloskey said. “Our system was late to obscure the inappropriate gesture and we apologize to our viewers.”

Jackson’s infamous oops during the 2004 halftime show raised a storm of controversy and put CBS in trouble with the Federal Communications Commission amid questions about the responsibility of TV networks to police their airwaves.

Madonna: Elton John’s husband

Madonna: Elton John’s husband, Elton John’s husband has apologized to Madonna on Facebook, following comments he made that the Queen of Pop didn’t deserve the Golden Globe award she won on Sunday.

John’s husband and producer David Furnish was publically upset after Madonna took home the Best Song award for “Masterpiece,” a song written for her upcoming film, W.E. Elton John was also nominated in the same category for his song “Hello, Hello” from Gnomeo & Juliet. During the Golden Globes, the camera also caught John’s chilly reaction to Madonna’s win.

“Madonna. Best song???? F- off!!!” Furnish wrote on Facebook shortly after the announcement. “Madonna winning Best Original Song truly shows how these awards have nothing to do with merit. Her acceptance speech was embarrassing in it’s [sic] narcissism.”

He also noted that Madonna’s recent criticism of Gaga shows “how desperate she really is.” Madonna recently slammed Lady Gaga in a Nightline interview and called her music “reductive.”

However, Furnish retracted his comments on Thursday, saying it was his passion for Gnomeo & Juliet — which he produced — got the best of him.

“Wow! What a tempest in a teapot,” Furnish said. “My comments regarding The Golden Globes have been blown way out of proportion. My passion for our film Gnomeo & Juliet and belief in Elton’s song really got my emotional juices going.”

“But I must say for the record that I do believe Madonna is a great artist, and that Elton and I wish her all the best for next week’s premiere of the film W.E.,” he added.

According to Us Magazine, Madonna said she hoped her win wouldn’t get to Elton too much, as the two have been known to feud in the past.

“I hope he speaks to me for the next couple of years,” Madonna said. “He’s been known to get mad at me so I don’t know. He’s brilliant and I adore him so he’ll win another award. I don’t feel bad!”

This isn’t the first time a high-profile person has turned to social networking to air frustrations. Here’s a look at other celebrities who have experienced public online meltdowns.

Les Miserables Lyrics

Les Miserables Lyrics, The 25th anniversary concert of Les Miserables, which was presented to October at the London O2 Arena 3, 2010, will arrive on Blu-ray next month.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment will release the DVD on Feb. 22, according www.blu-ray.com. No special features have been announced.

It has music by Claude-Michel Sch? Nberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel and additional material by James Fenton. The original London production of 1985, The Miz was adapted and directed by Nunn and Caird. The production of new birthday 25 and O2 are directed by Laurence Connor and James Powell and designed by Matt Kinley.
Some musicals age better than others, and Les Miserables is one of the timeless. Yet, theater styles, preferences and technology are constantly evolving.

For neophytes and fanatics The Miz, the touring production now at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts has much to offer in its treatment of the great classic novel by Victor Hugo about good and evil, love and loss to 19th-century France.

The magnificent Claude-Michel Sch? Nberg-Alain Boublil score (with lyrics in English, some goofy comedy, by Herbert Kretzmer) has been beautifully re-orchestrated by Chris Jahnke, Stephen Metcalfe and Stephen Brooker. All stunning and lighting design by Matt Kinley (which was inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo) and Paule Constable is fluid and alive. Two scenes – the heroic Jean Valjean’s flight with the wounded Marius through the sewers and a jump emotionally ruin of Javert in the Seine – are breathtaking. And through the casting choices, the new The Miz has gotten a little more pop sensibility. This decision, however, give mixed results.

Near the opera in its scope and musical challenges, The Miz requires strong actors / singers, especially in the lead roles of Valjean, a man who served 19 years in prison after stealing a loaf of bread to feed the his sister’s starving family, and Javert, the lawman adamant that continues unabated and has changed the virtuous Valjean.

As Valjean, Lawrence Clayton offers a safe and dignified return of acting, but his pop and gospel-flavored – with the exception of the glorious, delicately nuanced take home – dulls what should be a central role. This tipped the balance in favor of Andrew Varela vocally dominant, work as commander of Javert in the first place on the beautiful Stars and ultimately the tragic Soliloquy. You’re not supposed to root for the villain in The Miz, but now you do.

Two performances of pop-style keys by women also produce mixed results. As the desperate Fantine, who turned to prostitution to support her daughter Cosette (Forrester Katherine softly), Betsy Morgan acts decently the musical history’s most tragic, but his voice rough edge drain the dramatic possibilities of I Dreamed a Dream and other DeathOn Fantine, Chasten Harmon is passionate and convincing as Eponine, the brave young woman who loves the student (Justin Scott Brown) Marius but loses the adult Cosette (Jenny Latimer). Harmon married a pop style musical theater to earth, providing wonderful versions of A Heart Full of Love (his heart-breaking trio with the beautiful-yet-bland Marius and Cosette) and On My Own.

Other players who earn their moments in the spotlight that is Michael Kostroff comic intrigues and evil Thenardier Colin DePaul that cheeky street kid Gavroche.

Directors Laurence Connor and James Powell were actually reworked The Miz in the new environment, even giving nods to famous plateau of the original with a few cases of small circular motion (if the plate was axed in overhaul). Both seem to have encouraged the bellowing and exaggeration

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