She’s Just Being Herself, So Papa Don’t You Preach
In her book “Sex,” Madonna included a photograph of what is often, if charitably, referred to as “fantasy rape.”
“I know that there are a lot of women who have that fantasy where they are overpowered by two men or a group of men,” the pop diva told a British magazine on Tuesday. “In my photograph it’s obviously completely consensual. Everybody wants to do it.”
Madonna told the New Musical Express that she differentiates between such “consensual” activities and forcible rape. She revealed that she’d been raped early in her career.
“It is not an experience I would ever glamorize,” Madonna insisted even while adding a qualifier. “Although it was devastating at the time, I know that it made me a much stronger person,” she said. “It forced me to be a survivor.”
Loose talk
Non-Spanish-speaking Melanie Griffith on her home-wrecker reputation among the Spanish press (in GQ magazine): “When they kind of put the word ‘puta’ next to your name, you can kind of figure it out.”
He and Hugh Grant will celebrate at 77 Sunset Strip
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. turns 72 today.
Finally, a role that she can actually handle
Here’s surprising news: Anna Nicole Smith is in rehab. That, at least, is what “Hard Copy” is reporting. Smith’s publicist, meanwhile, says that the actress-like celebrity is “convalescing in a private location.”
What, no votes for ‘I’m My Own Grandpa’?
Country Weekly magazine just held a poll of the all-time great country songs. At the top was Garth Brooks’ “The Dance,” followed in order by Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” and Tammy Wynette’s “Stand By Your Man.”
Kids are the net return in this failed love match
John McEnroe is reportedly going to court over custody of his three children with ex-wife Tatum O’Neal. He has the kids, while O’Neal, trying to jump-start her stalled acting career, is in drug rehab to deal with a cocaine habit. Both sides are said to be negotiating.
No word yet on whether it comes with rockets
Christmas is coming early to the Oprah Winfrey-Stedman Graham relationship. The afternoon talk-show host is said to have ordered him a $35,000 limited edition BMW roadster, just like the one Pierce Brosnan drives in “GoldenEye.”
Don’t worry, though, he couldn’t stand the pay cut
In the latest edition of the neo-political magazine “George,” talkmeister Rush Limbaugh says that if he were president, he would not “blame talk radio for my problems,” “send Jimmy Carter anywhere,” “answer questions about my style of underwear,” “jog” or “allow my brother to sing in public.”
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