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    EastEnders: Discussion Thread

    in DTS: Foreign Soaps

    Posted · Edited by Y&RWorldTurner

    I don't think it's the entire 2001 cast, and some people are missing. For example, Jim is there, but Robbie and Sonia aren't, and they were on the show at the time.

    As for Ben, who knows, the Mitchell's are invincible. Kirkwood mentioned on the Revealed special that this is the start of a "long journey" for him. Who knows if that will change now.

    Though, they went out of their way to say that Bed is now 16 and could be tried as an adult...

    What would Kathy think of this? Oh wait, we won't know. dry.png

    On the topic of Kathy, I was pleasantly surprised when Heather's death got Dot to remember Donna, and how she took her in and how she died in Dot's living room.

    I'm glad we're getting Dot and Patrick's reaction to Heather's death. They both loved her. It would have been too easy to focus the whole thing solely on Shirley.

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    EastEnders: Discussion Thread

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    The Revealed special on Heather's exit/murder:

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    The character was a joke most of the time, but I think I'm actually going to miss Hev in some strange way...

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    The Madonna Thread

    in Music & Movies

    Posted · Edited by Y&RWorldTurner

    This is from MTV Europe, I believe.

    But MTV US used to be famous for their Madonna Weekends during the 80's and early to mid 90's before they abandoned music altogether. It's where a lot of us who were maybe too young to fully remember and appreciate her early stuff got well acquainted with her discography/videography.

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    Also love this Year in Rock 1990 clip, this was the year that solidified her as a permanent pop cultural icon.

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    The Madonna Thread

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    Poor Donna suffers from the disco backlash that rock purists will never get over.

    Madonna is lucky she emerged during the post-disco ever, and was at the forefront of the music video era, or else she could have been grouped in there.

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    The Madonna Thread

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    As Evita was mentioned earlier.

    Here's Madonna performing You Must Love Me at the '97 Oscar's. The song won the Oscar for Best Original Song.

    Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote it especially for Madonna to song in the film. It has since been incorporated into stage revivals of the musical.

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    Of course, she was pregnant with Lourdes when this was filmed:

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    The Madonna Thread

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    Julie's recently talked about doing a sequel about Madonna's current life, and how hard it would be physically, since Madonna no longer has "any fat on her cheeks." laugh.png

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    The Madonna Thread

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    The imagery in Oh Father, just damn... The mother in the coffin with the mouth sealed. I initially thought it was about spousal and/or sexual abuse. Then I thought maybe it's about the church. But over time realized it's her very autobiographical interpretation of her childhood thru Sean Penn. She doesn't feel her father abused her, but that he changed while her mother was dying and after she died, that pushed her away, and some of that allowed herself to open herself to being abused. In the end though she forgives her father. Great stuff.

    The switch from the father being "abusive" to the husband slapping her, perfect in terms of the chain of abuse.

    Madonna said that Oh Father wasn't just about Sean or her dad, but it was a representation of a lot of men that had been in her life.

    I guess men that abused her in one way or another, and how the experiences made her stronger in the end.

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    The Madonna Thread

    in Music & Movies

    Posted · Edited by Y&RWorldTurner

    Til Death Do Us Part was another heavy but good one. This was definitely less commercial than Oh Father. I strongly related to this whole album due to my home life when I was a child.

    Sorry, see that you posted this already. LOL!

    Sorry to hear this album reflected parts of your life. sad.png

    It's a pretty dark album overall, but definitely her best and most critically acclaimed work.

    I'll never forget this Promise To try montage on Truth or Dare, which Julie Brown later parodied.laugh.png

    Julie Brown did some of the best Madonna parodies.

    The audio is pretty bad in this clip and makes her voice sound extra thin, but here it is:

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    The Madonna Thread

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    To be fair, Prince never gave his best material to other artists, lol. Sinead simply covered Nothing Compares 2 U, as Prince had recorded it before.

    He did play the guitar rift on Like A Prayer (the song) though.

    Til Death Due Us Part might well be Madonna's best song that was not a single.

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    The Madonna Thread

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    Their date to the Oscar's was clearly for publicity. They knew quite a few people in common.

    Before he had a legendary partnership with Madonna. Freddy DeMann, who was Madonna's manager and business partner from Like A Virgin until Evita, was Michael's manger.

    DeMann was one of the best managers in the music industry ever.

    Word to the father, Oh Father was my favorite on that album. The song was epic. The video is epic. I think it was probably too heavy for some. It was commercial in sound, but it's so heavy in topic...

    The bridge between Oh Father and Dear Jessie (which was released in Europe) was epic on the album.

    Such a contrast between the two songs and that bridge just highlights the irony.

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