MADONNA PLANS KIDS MOVIE
Pop superstar Madonna is planning to expand her career as a children's author --
she now has an animated movie in the works.
The pop goddess already has one children's book, "The English Roses," under her belt and another, "Mr. Peabody's Apples," planned for release next month.
And now she has an animated project she's planning to turn into a movie
She says, "It's called 'The Adventures of Opty.' I've been approached by some people about it and I'm thinking about it."
Madonna is planning to turn her hit children's book "The English Roses" into an animated movie, in which she'll the voice the Fairy Godmother role.
The pop superstar, whose last movie venture "Swept Away" was savaged by the critics, plans to ask friends to play the leading characters, insisting her own children Rocco and Lourdes won't take part.
Speaking exclusively to program "Extra!", Madonna also revealed she's in negotiations to create a new movie musical. It's not known at this stage whether she'll star in it.
MADONNA will release her third children's book, "Yakov and the Seven Thieves," on June 21st. The thirty-two-page book features text by the pop star along with illustrations by GENNADY SPIRIN. It follows "The English Roses" and "Mr. Peabody's Apples," both of which topped the "New York Times"' best-seller list. "It's a story about how all of us have the ability to unlock the gates of heaven," Madonna said. "When we go against our selfish natures, we make miracles happen."
Madonna was supposedly such a prima donna on the set of John Schlesinger's last film that she may have driven the director to heart failure.
The Oscar-winning director of Midnight Cowboy and Billy Liar, who died in July 2003, blamed Madonna for his 1999 heart attack, reports the New York Daily News. That charge lives on in letters and production notes he wrote while directing Madonna in the flop The Next Best Thing.
When he suffered a heart attack just after finishing the film, an enraged Schlesinger fired off a missive from his hospital bed, laying some of the blame for his collapse on Madonna and producer Tom Rosenberg for agreeing to her demands.
"I am f---ing angry with Tom being influenced by Madonna," Schlesinger wrote to his agent. "I do not for one moment think that their behaviour has not added to the reasons I have ended up here."
In the film, Madonna plays a yoga instructor who is made pregnant by her gay best friend, played by Rupert Everett.
One memo hints that the actress wanted producers to "beautify" 34 shots of her with computer-generated wizardry.
Later, Madonna lobbied for the removal of a pivotal scene that she felt was too "gay" - much to the disgust of Schlesinger, who was gay.
I think Madonna is one artist who truly has a "stage personality" that is totally different from who she really is. I think it's great that she can be a sex bomb on stage and then leave it all behind her to go home and be a normal person, a normal mum. It's good to see.
WHO'D have thought the day would come when Madonna would be selling tea sets and slippers?
The canny businesswoman will be adding to her millions by launching The English Roses Collection as a spin-off from her children's book.
Prices for the kids clothing and accessories line, which includes English Roses schoolgirl dolls, start at £14 for a pair of slippers.
A porcelain tea set, suitable for your average seven-year-old, will cost just over £16 and will be sold in America in time for Christmas at American department store chain Nordstrom.
Pop queen Madonna's latest book has infuriated Kabbalah critics, who claim it brutally forces the mystical offshoot of Judaism "down the throats of innocent children."
The Material Girl's fourth children's tome "The Adventures of Abdi" tells the story of Abdi, a young boy who has to deliver the most precious necklace in the world to the queen, and overcomes numerous obstacles "through the power of spiritual certainty."
Religious cult expert Rick Ross tells American news site MSNBC.com, "The book is just more Kabbalah preaching disguised as a kiddie book. The character survives 'through the power of spiritual certainty.'
"It's just pushing Kabbalah down the throats of innocent children."
This Kabbalh obsession is getting out of hand. She's truly is trying to convert the world. Can you imagine if this was a book based on principles of Islam? The world would be up in arms that she was brainwashing children, but for some reason, becauase it's Kaballah it's OK. That's why organised religion is bad.
Madonna will be lending her voice to the cast of the animated film Arthur, directed by Luc Besson.
The film is based on a series of children's books, also written by Besson.
The film tells the story of ten-year-old Arthur, who, while trying to save his grandfather's house from developers, goes on a treasure hunt in the land of the Minimoys, a bunch of tiny people living in coexistence with nature.
Lourdes is following in her mother's footsteps, with Madonna having sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide of her first children's book, The English Roses
Pop queen Madonna's daughter Lourdes has written a story for a fund-raising Christmas book.
The eight-year-old's story will feature in Christmas Stories, a book being launched by Selfridges on November 9 in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Lourdes is following in her mother's footsteps, with Madonna having sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide of her first children's book, The English Roses.
Other celebrities to contribute stories include boxer Audley Harrison, who writes about a little boy getting his first boxing gloves for Christmas, and Tara Palmer-Tomkinson contributes a poem about a girl who lives in a cake.
X-Factor judge Sharon Osbourne writes about her British bulldog, Lola, while other contributors include Sarah, the Duchess of York, as well as David Hasselhoff, Michael Owen and Eamonn Holmes.
11-03-2003 02:34 AM
That's why organised religion is bad.
