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MADONNA ~~ RARE '80s Paparazzi Photos ..... Exercising in MALIBU

$ 6.83

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Industry: Music
  • Artist/Band: Madonna
  • Size: 8" x 10"
  • Genre: Rock & Pop
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Original/Reproduction: Original

    Description

    MADONNA -  3 ORIGINAL  B&W 8" x 10" PHOTOS
    RARE PAPARAZZI IMAGES TAKEN IN MALIBU, CA
    PRINTED FROM ORIGINAL NEGATIVES   & VERY SHARP
    SHIPPED WT. HEAVY DUTY CARDBOARD FOR PROTECTION
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    The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide. Her film career, however, is another story. Her performances have consistently drawn scathing or laughable reviews from film critics, and the films have usually had tepid, if any, success at the box office. Born Madonna Louise Ciccone in August 1958 in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York in 1978 and studied with renowned choreographer
    Alvin Ailey
    , joined up with the
    Patrick Hernandez
    Revue, formed a pop/dance band called "Breakfast Club" and began working with then-boyfriend
    Stephen Bray
    on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J.
    Mark Kamins
    passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums, and her musical and fashion influence on young women was felt around the globe. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience:
    A Certain Sacrifice
    (1979) and
    Vision Quest
    (1985). However, she scored a minor cult hit with
    Desperately Seeking Susan
    (1985) starring alongside spunky
    Rosanna Arquette
    . Madonna's next effort with then husband
    Sean Penn
    ,
    Shanghai Surprise
    (1986), was savaged by critics, although the resilient star managed to somewhat improve her standing with her next two films, the off-beat
    Who's That Girl
    (1987) (although she did receive decidedly mixed reviews, they weren't as negative as those of her previous effort) and the quirky
    Damon Runyon
    -inspired
    Bloodhounds of Broadway
    (1989). The big-budget and star-filled
    Dick Tracy
    (1990) had her playing bad girl "Breathless Mahoney" flirting with
    Warren Beatty
    , but the epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside
    Tom Hanks
    and
    Geena Davis
    in
    A League of Their Own
    (1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit
    Body of Evidence
    (1992), an obvious (and lame) attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy
    Sharon Stone
    thriller
    Basic Instinct
    (1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as
    Eva Perón
    in
    Evita
    (1996), a fairly well received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the movie cameras for several years, returning to co-star in the lukewarm romantic comedy
    The Next Best Thing
    (2000), followed by the painful
    Swept Away
    (2002) for husband
    Guy Ritchie
    . If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure
    Die Another Day
    (2002). After finally admitting that her acting days were over, Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the barely remembered
    Filth and Wisdom
    (2008) and a year later she reunited with
    Madonna: Truth or Dare
    (1991) director
    Alek Keshishian
    to develop a script about the relationship between the
    Duke of Windsor
    and the
    Duchess of Windsor
    that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named
    W.E.
    (2011), starring
    James D'Arcy
    and
    Andrea Riseborough
    as the infernal but still royal couple, was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for "Masterpiece".