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‘Shantaram’ is Madonna’s favourite book
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American actress Gwyneth Paltrow who is also Madonna’s best friend has revealed that ’Shantaram’ by Gregory David Roberts is among the pop singer’s favourite reads. The book tells the story about the life and adventures of an escaped Australian convict in Mumbai. The actress posted on her website her decision to set up a book club for Hollywood A listers, specifically to help best friend Madonna make a fresh start after her recent headline grabbing divorce from British director Guy Ritchie, The Mirror reported. Paltrow revealed her plans on her website and wrote that she has asked some celebrity friends to join in. “I feel a bit swallowed up in January, the days are so short, the sky is so close and grey. The best way to escape is to curl up by the fire with an amazing, transportive novel,” she said. “I like knowing the literary preferences of people, it gives a better understanding of their inner life,” Paltrow added. The actress who is married to British band Coldplay’s lead singer Chris Martin also revealed that Madonna’s favourite book was ‘The Bad Girl’ by Mario Vargas Llosa which chronicles the life of a teenager hungering for money and power.
I Am BECAUSE WE ARE.
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Raising Malawi and PowerHouse Books are proud to announce the January 2009 release of Kristin Ashburn’s I AM BECAUSE WE ARE.

A companion volume to the acclaimed documentary film of the same name, I AM BECAUSE WE ARE is a stunning collection of images by award-winning photojournalist Kristin Ashburn featuring an inspiring forward by Raising Malawi co-founder Madonna.

Can a DVD release be too far off?

More info at www.raisingmalawi.org.

Madonna Confessions by Guy Oseary now on sale at Amazon!
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Madonna Confessions book by Guy Oseary is now on sale at Amazon. Here's the press release:

A message from Lucy O'Brien,
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I'd like to say a big hello to one of my favourite Madonna websites. Yours is always of such a high standard, packed with great features, interviews and wonderful pictures.

I'd like to send a message to all your fans: that my book Madonna: Like An Icon is being published in paperback next week, 14 August, in time for Madonna's birthday. The first biography to fully explore her life as an artist, since it was published in hardback last year, it has had great reviews and sold in translation to 13 countries.

I'm thrilled with this new edition - it's bright and summery and the photos (many rare and unseen) really jump out at you. Copies are available (just £7.99) via my website www.lucyobrien.com, or Amazon, or your local bookstores.

Keep up the good work, and very best wishes!
Lucy O'Brien

''I Am Because We Are'' to be released as a Book next January.
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From Madonna.com:

Power House Books is pleased to announce the January 2009 release of I Am Because We Are. Photographs by Kristen Ashburn. Foreword by Madonna.

I Am Because We Are is the companion volume to the acclaimed forthcoming documentary film directed by Nathan Rissman and written and produced by Madonna. This book of images by award-winning photojournalist Kristen Ashburn--culled from her own work in Malawi and Africa over the past seven years as well as from her specially commissioned photographs for the film--provides an intimate look at the lives of eight Malawian children featured in the film and reveals the harsh reality of the AIDS pandemic throughout southern Africa.

The title is derived from the concept of ’Ubuntu,’ an idea in African spirituality that states that all of humanity is connected, that we cannot be ourselves without community, that an individual’s well-being is dependent upon the well-being of others.

These heart-wrenching stories are a call to action. In Malawi, a country of 13 million people, over one million are orphans. Looking into the hearts and minds of children who have suffered more than one can imagine, the book provides an unflinching view of life at the center of the global AIDS crisis. This is not just a story about orphans in Malawi, but about global responsibility and human interconnectedness.

I Am Because We Are includes a foreword by Madonna, an after word by Ashburn, excerpts from interviews with Malawian children, their biographies, and extended captions. Author proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the charitable organization Raising Malawi for their extensive work with orphans throughout Malawi.

Kristen Ashburn’s photographs and stories from the Middle East, Europe, and Africa have appeared in many publications worldwide. Her accolades include a 2007 Emmy Award nomination, two World Press Photo prizes, a Getty Foundation grant in 2006, Canon’s Female Photojournalist Award in 2004, and other honors. She began photographing the impact of AIDS in southern Africa in 2001, and since then has also produced stories on the war in Iraq, Jewish settlers and suicide bombers in Israel’s occupied territories, and the aftermath of the tsunami in Sri Lanka and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. In addition to her humanitarian photography, Ashburn is one of the directors of Through the Eyes of Children: The Rwanda Project, a charity that teaches photography to Rwandan orphans of the 1994genocide and supports them through the sale of their images.

Click here to preview and/or pre-order the book.
For more info about the ’I Am Because We Are’ documentary, please visit www.iambecauseweare.com.

Funny Christopher Ciccone caricature.
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Thanks to our friend Martin at http://moviemartin.blogspot.com

New 'English Roses' Book Out Now!
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The sixth book taken from the ’English Roses’ series by Madonna has just been released. Published by Callaway and Puffin Books, ’Being Binah’ features amazing illustrations by Jeffrey Fulvimari.

Tired of being ’the nice one’, who is always taken for granted, Binah is ready to try being something - or someone - new. But how will the new and maybe-not-so-improved Binah fit in with the English Roses?

And with a certain someone - her latest crush, Ben - who might have liked the old Binah a little bit more than he’d let on? Can her friends prove just how wonderful the real Binah is before ’the nice one’ is gone... for good?

Order your copy of ’Being Binah’ from Amazon!

Excerpts from "Life With My Sister Madonna"
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The Daily Mail newspaper has published some excerpts from Christopher Ciccone's biography "Life With My Sister Madonna." Visit the links below to read the excerpts.

"Madonna and Guy - the singer's brother reveals intimate details of her life"


"Madonna’s deepest liaison ... with a lesbian named Ingrid"


"Madonna and Guy will only talk about Kabbalah, says her brother in his revealing book"


The Daily Mail also includes these previously rare photos of Madonna from Christopher Ciccone:



A previously unpublished picture of Madonna pregnant with Lola in 1996, with Christopher in the background





Madonna, centre, in 1970 with, from left, sister Paula, Uncle Chris, brothers Christopher and Marty, sister Melanie, stepmother Joan and father Silvio

A provocative Madonna in 1990 photographed by Christopher

Madonna going to her first communion in 1967 with her siblings Marty, Melanie and Christopher in front

On the set of Shanghai Surprise in 1986

Madonna is spoon fed by friend Ingrid Casares

 

The cover of Christopher Ciccone book has been revealed.
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The cover of Christopher Ciccone book has been revealed.

Christopher Ciccone sits down with Good Morning America.
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Christopher Ciccone will sit down for the 1st time on TV on Good Morning America on July 14th and 15th to discuss his book on his famous sister Madonna.

The news is confirmed by Christopher Ciccone's PR.

Christopher Ciccone writing a book about Madonna?
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Madonna’s brother, Christopher Ciccone, is writing a memoir about his sister, to be released in mid-July by Simon & Schuster with a first printing of 350,000, the publisher told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The publisher had been promoting a celebrity memoir for July, asking bookstores to order copies without identifying the author or contents.

Source: The Associated Press.
''Madonna: Like An Icon'' translated into 12 languages!
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Lucy O'Brien informs Drowned Madonna that her book "Madonna: Like An Icon" has been translated into 12 languages. 

"It’s going to be published in Italy this year with Sperling & Kupfer Editori in Milan," Lucy told us.

Confessions & RIT books.
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More on the Animal Rights Campaigners protests.
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The RSPCA has told Sky News Online a Madonna photoshoot which involved dyeing her sheep different colours was "irresponsible".

The 49-year-old singer painted sheep on her country estate in blue, yellow, pink and green for the American edition of Vogue magazine.

But animal rights campaigners say the "stunt" threatens to start "a craze" among her fans, which could danger British livestock.

An RSPCA spokeswoman told Sky News: "The paints can be toxic so you have to be careful which ones you use."

A statement from the organisation said: "Publicity stunts or advertising campaigns involving animals can sometimes lead to copycat incidents when animals may be harmed."

The pop star claims the shoot was in homage to celebrated photographer Cecil Beaton, a previous owner of her £9m Wiltshire estate.

The images are to be used in a forthcoming celebrity homes book entitled Vogue Living, commissioned by the American edition of the Conde Nast fashion title. 

But a spokeswoman for the British Vogue - which was not involved in the Madonna photos - told Sky News health and safety rules should always be carefully scrutinised before embarking on a shoot.

"We follow strict guidelines and would make sure the owners were present and they were happy," she said.

The sheep - owned by Madonna and director husband Guy Ritchie - were painted in non-toxic dye similar to that used in the farming community.

But the RSPCA said claims of ’artistic merit’ failed to justify the same use as in agriculture.

A spokeswoman said: "When farmers mark animals they are putting them through the sheep dip or preparing them for treatment they need, which is in the animal’s best interest."

Source: Sky News Online.

New York Noise.
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In the late 1970s and 1980s, New York sizzled. The economically ravaged city became an affordable refuge for a wave of artists, performers and impresarios. Creative envelopes were pushed, clubs descended into debauchery and the DIY ethos of punk prevailed.

Recording it was Paula Court, resident photographer at the Kitchen Centre, a performance space that nurtured America’s avant-garde and numbered Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson among its prime movers.

Court’s book New York Noise features more than 400 shots of the era’s leading lights including Madonna, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith and William Burroughs. She prefers to let her pictures do the talking.

ANITA SARKO Disc jockey

"When I arrived in downtown Manhattan from the Midwest in the late 1970s, I thought, ‘This is it.’ It was Bohemia’s last gasp - imagine the most progressive kindergarten, where you could follow your whims, uncontrolled by adults. It wasn’t a case of “We’ll all do this or that” — everybody just got it. Or if you didn’t you ran out of there screaming.

It was like life as performance art, but without the creepy pretentiousness. Whatever you wanted to do, you did it. If you wanted to paint, you came here to paint; if you wanted to be a musician, you picked up a damn guitar.

I used to DJ at this amazing place called Squat Theatre, which was put on by an East European theatrical troupe who came to New York on tour and never went back. They took care of Nico when she got strung out and put on these avant-garde shows where Sun Ra would perform and John Cale would come and do his viola stuff.

Then there was Danceteria, which we held in a mansion on Second Avenue near Gramercy Park that we rented off this old gay guy. Everybody was having sex in every corner and on every staircase. Madonna was a regular and she was really awful. When she got famous she became very nice, but back then I’d get into big fights with her — she would scream for me to make the music louder but the owner had a big padlock on the amp.

I also played at Andy Warhol’s funeral wake in 1987. I ended up next to him at some dinner party once. He was very sweet, but one of the most boring people I’ve ever met."

Source: Timeonline.

Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People''.
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Released on October 2007, "Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People" is unique book of thirty-six spectacular houses and gardens—whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society—draws not only on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue and Vogue Living over the past two decades but also on images that have never before been published.

Amoung the others, the book shows Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s romantic rural retreat in the depths of the English countryside. It’s the legendary Ashcombe estate of 1,000 acres of rolling hills and valleys. The late legendary portrait photographer Cecil Beaton leased the place for 15 years in the 1930s and ’40s. And leave it to Vogue and Madonna to pay tribute to Beaton’s extravagant lifestyle by temporarily dyeing some of the Ritchies’ sheep pastel pink, blue, yellow and green just for their photo shoot.

The book has been written by Vogue editor Hamish Bowles.

''Madonna Icon'' Biography to be released tomorrow in the Netherlands.
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Our dear friend GertJan at Madonna.nl - the Official Dutch and Belgium Madonna Funclub - wants to inform our readers that the Dutch version of the biography "Madonna Icon" by Lucy O'Brien will be released tomorrow in the Netherlands.

The local title is "Madonna Het Icoon". The book has been translated by Selma Bakker with the help of MadonnaNed / Madonna.nl.

No ''English Roses'' promotional events planned at this time!
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Since Madonna has been spotted in New York City, some started to suppose and/or speculate that she is there to promote her new "The English Roses" serie.

However, Drowned Madonna received official news that there are no promotional events planned at this time for "The English Roses" serie.

Madonna: Confessions By Guy Oseary
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On pre-sale on amazon.com. To be released June 2008

Official Press Release for English Roses Book Series.
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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - September 12, 2007) - "The English Roses," the phenomenally successful series of children’s books by Madonna, is scheduled to launch a new series of chapter books on September 13, 2007 aimed at the "tween" market of readers aged 9-12, it was announced today by Puffin Books, the series publisher in association with Callaway Arts & Entertainment. The first four titles, which continue the adventures of five best friends living in London, are illustrated in a highly decorative, whimsical style by renowned fashion artist Jeffrey Fulvimari, who illustrated the original best-selling children’s book of the same title (Callaway, 2003). The first four of twelve books -- "Friends for Life!," "Good-Bye, Grace?," "The New Girl" and "A Rose by Any Other Name" (Puffin/Callaway; Hardcover Fiction; $9.99; 128 pages) -- chronicle Nicole, Amy, Charlotte, Grace and Binah’s adventures in the sixth grade. Throughout the series, the English Roses will have crushes, survive family feuds, make new friends, and overcome rivalries. The world of the English Roses will continue online at www.myenglishroses.net, where tweens can play interactive games, take quizzes, read horoscopes, download screensavers, and enjoy many other activities. In addition, "members-only" sections of the site will be accessible by using secret codes from membership cards found in all four books.

Madonna, a best-selling children’s book author with six titles in the last three years ("The English Roses" [2003], "Mr. Peabody’s Apples" [2003], "Yakov and the Seven Thieves" [2004], "The Adventures of Abdi" [2004], "Lotsa de Casha" [2005], and "The English Roses: Too Good to Be True" [2006]), has collectively sold three million books across 42 languages and 100 different countries. The first English Roses picture book debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and sold over 1 million copies worldwide. Doug Whiteman, President of Penguin Young Readers Group, comments, "Madonna demonstrated in 2003 that she knows how to connect with kids through great stories and great characters. We are delighted to be part of this ongoing program, and can’t wait to bring ’The English Roses’ to a whole new audience."

Nicholas Callaway, Founder and Publisher of Callaway Arts & Entertainment, says, "Madonna knows girls. As one of the entertainment, cultural and fashion icons of our age, she will now take a new generation of girls on a great adventure in the life and times of the English Roses."

All of Madonna’s proceeds from "The English Roses" series will be donated to Raising Malawi (www.raisingmalawi.org), an orphan-care initiative.

About the author

Madonna Ritchie was born in Bay City, MI. She has recorded 17 albums, appeared in 18 movies, and written six children’s books. She lives with her husband, movie director Guy Ritchie, and her three children, Lola, Rocco, and David, in London and Los Angeles.

Penguin Group (USA) is the U.S. affiliate of the internationally renowned Penguin Group. Penguin Group (USA) is one of the leading U.S. adult and children’s trade book publishers, owning a wide range of imprints and trademarks including Berkley Books, Dutton, Frederick Warne, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Grosset & Dunlap, New American Library, Penguin, Philomel, Plume, Puffin Books, Riverhead Books and Viking, among others. The Penguin Group is part of Pearson (NYSE: PSO) (LSE: PSON). Pearson is an international media company with market leading businesses in education, business information and consumer publishing. For more information, visit www.pearson.com.

Callaway Arts & Entertainment is a leading creator of family entertainment properties across all media, including book publishing, animated entertainment, and children’s lifestyle products. The company’s hugely successful "Miss Spider" series, created by David Kirk, has sold more than 5 million books and inspired Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends, a computer-animated television series that airs weekday mornings on Nickelodeon, and the Sunny Patch™ line of children’s lifestyle products available at Target stores nationwide. In November 2006, the company debuted Callaway Classics, a deluxe series of fairy tales and folktales from around the world. The first two titles, "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Engine That Could," are each available in an oversized boxed edition, making them a collector’s item that will be treasured for generations. For more information, please visit www.callaway.com.