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Madonna’s hit single, “Don’t Tell Me,” from her 2000 album, Music, was among the songs honored as one of the most performed of the year at the 19th annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards on Monday (May 20) in Beverly Hills, California. The award meant accolades for acclaimed singer-songwriter Joe Henry, who wrote the song. Henry, who is also Madonna’s brother-in-law, says that he originally had different plans for the song, but is not complaining about how things played out. “Initially I wrote it for the Sopranos and they turned it down because I wasn’t a Sony artist or a big… Read more »

Madonna, Britney Spears, Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, Lonestar, Ray Charles, Stone Temple Pilots, Patti LaBelle, Dolly Parton, Michelle Branch, Tim McGraw, Rosie O’Donnell, and Oprah Winfrey are just a few of the stars who have donated autographed items to the American Red Cross Nationwide Virtual Auction. The auction, hosted by the auction website Ebay (ebay.com), features more than 1,500 unique items donated by participating Red Cross chapters across the U.S. The auction will raise funds for disaster relief and other Red Cross humanitarian efforts. Twenty-one of the auction items were personally solicited and donated by country superstar Wynonna Judd. “I… Read more »

Kelly Osbourne may be Sharon and Ozzy’s daughter, but it seems she’s got a little Madonna in her, too. After successfully mastering the role of television star, Kelly is now trying her hand as a pop music icon. She and the members of Incubus – sans frontman Brandon Boyd – will collaborate to record a cover of Madonna’s 1986 chart-topper “Papa Don’t Preach.” “I didn’t choose the song,” Kelly said Tuesday (April 2). “My mom did and asked me to do it. I’m kind of crapping myself because I don’t think I’m a very good singer.” That should be the… Read more »

Though Madonna fans may be disappointed to learn the singer has canceled matinee performances of the London theater production “Up for Grabs,” there is a silver lining. The reason she won’t be able to do daytime shows, her rep said, is that she’s spending her days in the studio, working on a follow-up to 2000’s Music. No further information was provided, and there is no word on when the album will surface. Madonna plays an art dealer in “Up for Grabs,” which opens May 23 at London’s Wyndham Theater and runs for 10 weeks.

Madonna’s no beautiful stranger to spy films – she’s acted up a storm as Breathless Mahoney in 1990’s “Dick Tracy” and contributed one song to the 1999 spy spoof “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.” Now she’s going for the real thing – shaken, not stirred – with the title track to the 20th James Bond film, “Die Another Day.” “We are thrilled that Madonna, who is recognized as the world’s most exciting songwriter and performer, has agreed to compose and sing the song for the first James Bond movie of the new millennium,” said the film’s team of… Read more »

Madonna is set to make her debut on a West End stage in London this May in Up for Grabs. The play, a comedy by David Williamson, will preview on May 9 and open on May 23 at Wyndham’s Theatre with Laurence Boswell directing. Up for Grabs, which debuted in February 2001 in Sydney, Australia, is a satire on the world of art. Madonna’s theater experience includes a stint on Broadway in David Mamet’s Speed the Plow and a limited run of David Raab’s Goose and Tom Tom at the Lincoln Center in New York. Among her films are The… Read more »

Madonna will make her West End debut in May, starring in an Australian comedy called “Up For Grabs.” She’ll lead a cast of seven in the British premiere of David Williamson’s play, a satire on the art world that first was staged in Sydney in February 2001. Previews start May 9 at Wyndham’s Theater, with May 23 the “Up For Grabs” opening night. The director is Laurence Boswell, who’s rehearsing for the London premiere of Kenneth Lonergan’s “This Is Our Youth,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Hayden Christensen and Oscar-winner Anna Paquin. Madonna, 43, hasn’t acted on stage since her sellout 1988… Read more »

Michelle Branch’s Zilo-sponsored Lotus Tour finishes up Sunday (February 24) in Norfolk, Virginia, but Wednesday night (February 20) at New York City’s Irving Plaza she got a visit from the president of her label-who just happens to be Madonna. The Material Girl attended with a few of her girlfriends, and it was a very low-key, laid-back appearance, a source confirmed for LAUNCH. Madonna was entertained and impressed, staying at the venue for Branch’s whole set. Lucy Woodward and Transmatic opened the show. Branch has a one-off date Tuesday (February 26) in Atlanta, and then rests for about a week before… Read more »

Madonna will perform a song for the next James Bond film but will not be acting in it, her publicist said on Friday. The pop superstar had been tipped by the British media to make a cameo appearance alongside Irish lead Pierce Brosnan in the latest 007 spy caper. “She is doing a song for the film but she won’t be acting,” Madonna’s spokeswoman in London said. “We don’t know if it will be the title song yet.” Madonna clinched the deal after holding talks this week with Eon Productions, the 007 film’s maker, at Pinewood Studios, the Mirror tabloid… Read more »

Madonna’s Drowned World Tour 2001 concert DVD has been deemed “too explicit” for Singapore and banned from release there, Billboard reports. The Singapore Board Of Film Censors took issue with two scenes in particular-Japanese-inspired animation sequences that depicted a monster fondling and raping an Asian-looking girl. Madonna’s management is reportedly debating whether to release an edited version of the DVD in that country. The Drowned DVD captures the Material Girl in concert in Detroit last August. Meanwhile, other visual images of Madonna are currently receiving accolades back home in the States. The Jean-Baptiste Mondino-directed video for the song “Don’t Tell… Read more »