Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

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Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/13/11 at 10:07pm

Material Girl forces volunteers to look away at TIFF

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Updated On: 9/13/11 at 10:07 PM

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/13/11 at 10:17pm

She's making it impossible for anyone to defend her anymore.

About 8 years ago a friend of mine worked an event where Diana Ross was attending. Her people came in and let everyone know that Miss Ross will be entering and everyone must turn their heads and NOT look her in the eyes. he turned around with everyone else and when she walked in, he turned around and said "HEY, GIRL!"

He became my hero that day.

Updated On: 9/13/11 at 10:17 PM

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/13/11 at 10:37pm

Ahem..

"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/13/11 at 10:39pm

Madonna used to eat at one of the restaurants I worked at ten years ago when I was a college student. She'd eat there at least once whenever she was in New York. She was pulling the same BS back then. Usually her assistant would order for her because she refused to talk to service people. She never tipped, ever. I don't think any server ever waited on her more than once.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/13/11 at 10:45pm

She's making it impossible for anyone to defend her anymore.

Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh...need I go on? They all have devotees who fall over themselves to defend them at any cost (and by "any cost", I mean anything resembling logic or usable brain cells). But Madonna will make an AWESOME response video about how she doesn't hate walls (because it's all about the walls), then punch and kick holes in walls, and be celebrated for her bitchy AWESOMENESS for so ironically missing the point (totally on purpose) because she is a GODDESS with no faults and it was a "gotcha" media moment and anyway they weren't "volunteers", they were "interns" (which makes a huge difference) and everyone is just laughing about it because IT WAS JUST A JOKE and she was set up anyway and it's so ridiculous because, well...she's Madonna and what would you expect because she can do and say anything she wants just like anyone else in the world (who happens to be a worldwide celebrity swimming in an ocean of cash). And she's a massive bitch that deserves respect for being a massive bitch and performing some catchy tunes a long time ago. Developing a devoted fan base is far more important than...well, anything else. Ask Kim Kardashian or The Duchess (or whatever that drunk hot mess calls herself). It doesn't take much anymore to create a following. Snooki isn't even pretty.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/13/11 at 10:54pm

LOL. You left out the fact that even though the "I don't hate walls" video will be 30 seconds long, Madonna will only manage to stay in character for 20 seconds.

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Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/13/11 at 11:33pm

I once worked as an extra on a film where all the extras were taken aside by a PA and told that the male actor who was in the scene demanded none of us look at him. I asked "who is he?" The PA said "Martin Donovan" "Never heard of him", I said.

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/13/11 at 11:41pm

Wow. Until that story, I liked Martin Donovan.

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/13/11 at 11:45pm

Jordan, I actually had never heard of him. And this happened around twenty years ago. Was he a big name then?

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

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Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/13/11 at 11:48pm

I think I became aware of him in the mid 90s but never thought he was too well known or known enough to be a bitch like that.

#11

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/13/11 at 11:49pm

I guess I can SORT of understand if a person is acting a scene in a film and feeling vulnerable she might not want people staring at her. On the other hand, merely walking from point A to point B to promote a movie at a press conference? No, I'm sorry. No volunteer job is worth having to face a wall even if Madonna just doesn't want anybody seeing her up close (totally understandable, by the way.)

PS Why the FUDGE does Madonna never tip? In the words of a much better Evita, "WHO does she think she IS?"

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Posted: 9/13/11 at 11:52pm

^ In certain families, I came to realize, the more successful and rich you become, the cheaper you get. It runs in the family.

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

#13

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/13/11 at 11:55pm

Um, isn't her presence in the restaurant and your presence tip enough? How much more do those greedy wait staff want??

#14

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/13/11 at 11:57pm

Even with just my cursory research about kaballah (done primarily so I could mock it in an informed manner), I know that Madonna is NOT following one of its central tenets by not tipping. I'm starting to think she is truly rotten to the core.

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#15

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Posted: 9/14/11 at 12:00am

I don't know if I'd go that far, but girlfriend is in serious need of a "Christmas Carol"/"It's a Wonderful Life" kind of hallucination PRONTO.

#16

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/14/11 at 12:19am

The problem is, she is the corrupt banker.

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#17

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Posted: 9/14/11 at 12:25am

Well maybe little Jamiroquai, or whatever one of her kids names are, will ask her why Mommy is such a raging bitch and she'll be forced to sit down with herself and have an honest look at how she's lived her life.

I think everyone is capable of change, even Madonna. Problem is, they have to want it.

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Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/14/11 at 12:36am

She needs Sassy Gay Friend, not sycophantic gay frans.

"What are you doing? What are you doing? What ARE you doing? You NEED to put something in the tip section on that charge slip, you're MADONNA. It's still a material world and your waitstaff needs to get paid. Look at your life, look at your choices! Look at sad lonely little David Panda."

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#19

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/14/11 at 12:47am

I'd give anything to see that!

But she is the queen of reinvention and it's seriously time for her to do that again. She's been the same old Hoity-Toity skin and bones Skeletor wannabe for way too long. It's time for her to gain about 50 pounds, put on a bright yellow sun dress and go skipping down the street with a basket of lollipops tossing them (gently) at all the kids she passes whilst singing songs from her new album of Disney cover songs that Anne Geddes has lovingly photographed her for the cover art, wrapped in a lettuce leaf.

#20

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/14/11 at 1:11am

I think she's done with the reinvention. I think she's going to be desperately miserable as she tries to honor her Live Nation recording contract, unless they decide to let her off the hook because she was their loss leader, paid an outrageous sum in order to lure younger acts with their best output still ahead of them into the Live Nation fold. I know somebody who was in on that deal and they knew going in that any money earned as a result of that contract will be through other artists joining their roster. Like Jay-Z. But since even that model has collapsed, what's Madonna really going to do? Her last big hit was the Abba sample song.

Last week, I was working at a dance club with early 20-something gay boys and the young women who desperately love them, and they FLOCKED to the dance floor for many Britney remixes (which actually sound great on a huge sound system, even though I hate her music in any other context), one Lady Gaga song, and a filthy song called "My Neck, My Back" that'd curl prim and proper Madonna's hair at this point. It was actually much more influenced by Millie Jackson than Madge. The kids chanted the lyrics at the top of their lungs, and did the same for Ludacris's "Move Bitch (Get Out the Way)," No Madonna was played. They don't care. Her career started 30 years ago. She might as well be Glenn Miller to these kids.

So what is she gonna do? Keep churning out pandering to the gays nostalgia ditties to an ever-dwindling audience with bad hair dye, flip flops, and Abercrombie & Fitch t-shirts? This writer/director thing is gonna be her last chance at reinvention, and as Rosie Perez said to Spike Lee in Do the Right Thing: "It's not workin' out.'

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#21

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Posted: 9/14/11 at 2:05am

She just doesn't want anyone to notice her bad facial injections.

Little Miss Puffy Face

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#22

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/14/11 at 11:07am

Diva, we're talking about Madonna, not Mary Tyler Moore.

#23

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/14/11 at 11:17am

No idea why Madonna doesn't tip, except that she's a bitch who thinks that everybody (especially service people) are beneath her. I only waited on her once and from what I gather from other people I know who've served her, it was a pretty typical experience. Here's what I remember: Her assistant called about an hour before she wanted to come in and asked that one of our better tables be held for her (in the back, very private, where minimal amount of people would notice her or try to approach her). Wore sunglasses the entire meal, of course. She was dining with someone (no idea who, a woman around her age) and her assistant, who ordered for her and referred to her as "Mrs. Ritchie". I remember she wanted to be in and out, so the assistant asked that a rush order be put on her food, and of course because she's Madonna her food was out in about fifteen minutes. She never acknowledged me, spoke to me, looked at me. She paid, no tip. Of all the celebrities I served when I was a waited and bartender (I spent six years in the industry overall) she was probably the worst. This would have been around 2003.

#24

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/14/11 at 11:19am

Who was the best, AC?

#25

Perhaps the volunteers were hyrdrangeas in disguise

Posted: 9/14/11 at 11:25am

So many, but Julianne Moore is the one who stands out in my mind simply because she was a regular. She, her husband, and their kids would eat at the restaurant where I worked about once a week. She knew most of the staff by name, treated us like people, tipped very generously, told us to call her "Julie." So, in addition to being a great actress, she's a pretty awesome person too.

I waited on Johnny Depp once too and in addition to being a really nice guy, he left a 100% tip and made sure to shake my hand before he left.

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