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Madonna is reportedly finalizing negotiations to play 2 concerts in money rich Dubai for $25 million.

TWO gigs for $25 million?  Score!!

The plan is for Madge to end her world tour with the Dubai concerts this November. The UK Sun reports that if each show is 90-minutes long and with her cut at $15 million, she’ll make around $165,000 a minute or $10,000 for every crotch thrust.

She’s also in talks to perform at a private party in Dubai for $10 million. She recently said that she wouldn’t do privates parties for less than $10 million. The bitch got her wish.

A source said, “Madonna is about to break another record by playing the most lucrative concert of her whole career – or anyone’s career for that matter. The figure is so big because of her new contract with Live Nation and the huge funds available from private promoters in Dubai.”

Rob Parr is a fitness trainer whose clients have included Madonna, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Christy Turlington, Naomi Watts, Maria Shriver, and Alicia Silverstone. The self-styled trainer to the stars has written a book, “Star Quality,” and the NY Post got an early look. Parr had some pretty candid assessments of A-List stars Demi Moore, Madonna and Naomi Watts when he first began to work with them. According to Parr, Demi Moore needed some major work to turn herself into a ravishing knockout.

“[Demi] lacked a defined waist, carried too much meat on her thighs, and was, by movie-star standards, thick overall. To taper her waist, we decided to accentuate her shoulders, creating a V-shape. We trimmed her thighs, shaving off some of the excess fat from above her knees, and accentuated her butt, further emphasizing her waist.”

As for Madonna, whom Parr also whipped into shape, “When [she] and I started working together, she was very soft . . .”

As for Aussie beauty Naomi Watts, she came to Parr “fleshy, and we needed to trim and tighten so that she would fit the mold of a bikini-clad babe.”

Actually though Rob Parr didn’t write the book to just call out the stars he has worked with.  His objective was to present different body types based on some of his most famous celebrity clients, so that readers can easily identify with, aspire to, and work toward a body shape like Madonna’s (athletic), Demi Moore’s (hourglass), or Naomi Watts’s (long and slender).

No word if any of the called-out stars still work out with Parr.

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According to the UK Sun News, Madonna has dramatically abandoned her two-year attempt to adopt a Malawian girl.

Madonna has told aides she has been left “exhausted” by a mountain of red tape.

This news comes on the heels of her adoption of Malawian son David Banda, two, which was finalized this month. Friends were sure she would be bringing home Mercy, also two, as a sister for him.

Instead The 49-year-old singer will support the orphan financially from Britain.

Madonna has two other children and is wed to British film director Guy Ritchie is said to have feared another two years of legal wrangling.

A family friend said:

“Madonna wanted to adopt a boy and a girl. But Mercy’s relatives objected and she had a complete turnaround. Everyone was stunned. Normally nothing will stop her. She now believes David will be the last child she adopts. Instead she will support orphans through her charity.”

I may be off base here, but this news comes right after rumors that Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s marriage is on the rocks. The report here, claims that the couple will not officially announce their decision until 18 months have passed.

File this one under probably a bad idea. Madonna reportedly wants to revive her luke warm acting career with a daring remake of the classic film Casablanca. The rock hall of fame pop singer is said to believe the film will make her reputation as an actress, after a string of high-profile flops such as Shanghai Surprise, Body Of Evidence and Swept Away, her much-derided 2002 collaboration with husband Guy Ritchie. 

A source at a major Hollywood studio that was recently approached by the 49-year-old star said:

“Madonna and her people are testing the waters to see if this is the right vehicle for her and if a major studio will get behind the project.”

The singer, is supposedly planning to play the lead role of Ilsa Lund, which originally made a star of Ingrid Bergman.   Bergman was in her 20s when she played Ilsa and Madonna is nearly 50.  In the 1942 original, Bergman starred opposite Humphrey Bogart, who played Rick Blaine, a cynical bar owner in the Moroccan city of Casablanca in the early days of the Second World War. Ilsa is torn between love for her husband, a Czech Resistance leader, and her ex-lover Rick.  For the modern remake Madonna plans to set it in war-torn Iraq.

The Hollywood studio source continued with:

“She and her representatives have been touting around a project which is a remake of Casablanca. The reception has been lukewarm to say the least. No one can understand why she wants to redo what many people consider the greatest film of all time.”

Rumors continue that Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s marriage is on the rocks. The couple have not been seen together in awhile andRitchie added fuel to the rumor fire when he didn’t show up at Madge’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this week. While reps continue to say there is no problem in the marriage a
new story has emerged that Madonna has told friends that she is moving to New York permanently with her children, while Ritchie remains in London. According to a ‘News of the World’ source:

“Madonna and Guy are over. It’s all very amicable. They’ve just fallen out of love with each other. They just think it’s for the best as after some great years together they’ve been going their separate ways. Madonna’s been recording her new album Hard Candy and Guy has been trying to focus on putting a decent film out, so they are heading down different paths.”

The report claims that the couple will not officially announce their decision until 18 months have passed. And the source said they are agreeing to part on the best of terms.”
Madonna has allegedly told her staff to start packing and is consulting PR people to figure out how they should handle the news.

Madonna was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday, and she gave quite a controversial acceptance speech.  Sharing sordid tales about her life in music the Material girl did so with a raucous speech that included calling the audience “mother f**ers”.

Madonna went on to describe how she was “smoking a joint,” when introduced to long-time publicist Liz Rosenberg.  She also told the crowd she split a tab of ecstasy with a music executive who she gave her first demo tape to.

The 49-year-old pop star then mimicked Michael Jackson’s squeaky voice when recalling the touching tale of how she stole his manager..

Iggy Pop, who she said was “another ass kicker” from Michigan, performed her hits “Ray of Light” and “Burning Up.”

Madonna blamed her racy speech on Justin Timberlake, who introduced her with his own ribald jokes and mocking.
“He’s bringing sexy back,” she said, “I’ll get you f**er!”

Justin Timberlake by the way took an apparent jab at former flame Britney Spears at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony.

As JT  introduced the Material Mom, he said, “The world has always been full of Madonna wannabes,” reports Us. “I might have even dated a couple.”

JT, who collaborated on Madonna’s forthcoming album, “Hard Candy.”  said that while they were working together, he had come to the studio one day feeling ill, and Madonna had suggested a shot of vitamin B12. She didn’t call a doctor, he said. She took a Zip-Loc bag of B12 syringes from her designer bag, said, “Drop ‘em,” gave him the shot, and added, “Nice top shelf.” Timberlake said, “That was one of the greatest days of my life.”

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Madonna sat down to chat with Interview magazine, about her upcoming documentary, her children and her new album. The Material Girl star was interviewed by departing editor, Ingrid Sischy, in her last stint as the magazine chief. Sischy has been editor-in-chief at Interview magazine - which was founded by Andy Warhol in 1969, for 18 years after being recruited following the Pop Art icon’s death in 1987. She has chronicled the lives of the rich and fabulous from Donna Karan to Lindsay Lohan and Elizabeth Taylor.
Madonna confessed she didn’t even know where Malawi was before adopting her son David Banda from the African nation in 2006.

Her film on Africa starts with a woman calling her up randomly and begging her to help Malawi.

“You say that you felt embarrassed because you didn’t know where Malawi was,” Sischy says. “And she [the caller] tells you to look it up on a map and hangs up.”

“Yeah, and I went there,” Madonna jokes.

Discussing how Madonna, 49, got the likes of Bill Clinton, Bishop Desmond Tutu, economist Jeffrey Sachs and anthropologist and “genius grant” recipient Paul Farmer to appear in her film, Sischy asks if she had to dole out any “benefits.”

“No,” the singer laughs. “No sexual favors either.”

And, according to the New York Post, she said going to Africa and seeing harsh poverty has benefited her kids.
She told Interview: “[It’s important] my children see and experience that on a regular basis, so that they understand they breathe rarified air, and that it’s their job to share what they have with other people.”

Madonna on bringing daughter Lourdes with her to Malawi: “She spent several weeks working in the orphanages, particularly one with newborn children, and most of them were HIV-positive. She so came into her own and was so responsible and stayed for eight hours every day and worked tirelessly. I thought, why am I babying her so much? She’s capable of so much more. We don’t let kids do anything. We think, Oh, they’re kids — they can’t take care of other kids; they can’t do this; they can’t do that. And after you go to Africa, you drop all that silliness.”

Madonna on adopting her son David: “He wouldn’t have lived if I hadn’t taken him. It’s not even a possibility.”

The Madonna issue April 2008, featuring provocative photographs of the Material Girl star in a boxing ring, shot by lensman Steven Klein, hits newsstands in the US later this month.

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Update:  Though this story was widely reported in the UK Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s reps are saying this story is false!

Madonna and Guy Ritchie have bought their local pub in the London’s exclusive Mayfair district.

Madge and her film director husband have paid out close to $5 million for the pub, which was built in the 1730s from their pal Greg Foreman, son of the gangster Freddie Foreman.
A friend of the singer told the Sunday People that Madge “adores” the pub, which is right around the corner from their West End home and regularly pops in to take a break from her hectic life.

“Madonna loves the beer and Guy meets all his pals down there. They have been desperate to own this place for a long time and have been making offers on it for ages. Now it has finally happened,” they continued.

Reportedly of A-listers regularly visit the watering hole including Barbra Streisand, Robert De Niro, and Al Pacino.

Guy and Madge are now reportedly deciding to transform The Punchbowl into a gastro pub or a private members club. Oh well there goes another great English pub down the drain.

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