Picked to dance on the star’s Blond Ambition tour, then starring in the hit documentary Truth or Dare, Madonna’s boys struggled with the aftermath
There’s something very meta about this film – it’s almost a documentary about a documentary. In 1990, at the height of her imperial phase, a conical bra-clad Madonna hit the road with her Blond Ambition tour. Sharing her stage were seven super-buff, and extremely talented, male dancers. Blond Ambition’s lashings of sex and religion made it a cause célèbre – the Vatican described the show as satanic – and the ever-enterprising Madonna managed to milk the controversy the following year, too. Filmed backstage, her documentary Truth or Dare (aka In Bed With Madonna) featured scenes of the star and those dancers bitching, snogging and, in Madonna’s case, performing oral sex on a wine bottle. As one contemporary news report declared in shock: “There are...
There’s something very meta about this film – it’s almost a documentary about a documentary. In 1990, at the height of her imperial phase, a conical bra-clad Madonna hit the road with her Blond Ambition tour. Sharing her stage were seven super-buff, and extremely talented, male dancers. Blond Ambition’s lashings of sex and religion made it a cause célèbre – the Vatican described the show as satanic – and the ever-enterprising Madonna managed to milk the controversy the following year, too. Filmed backstage, her documentary Truth or Dare (aka In Bed With Madonna) featured scenes of the star and those dancers bitching, snogging and, in Madonna’s case, performing oral sex on a wine bottle. As one contemporary news report declared in shock: “There are...
- 4/17/2016
- by Alex Needham
- The Guardian - Film News
Picked to dance on the star’s Blond Ambition tour, then starring in the hit documentary Truth or Dare, Madonna’s boys struggled with the aftermath
There’s something very meta about this film – it’s almost a documentary about a documentary. In 1990, at the height of her imperial phase, a conical bra-clad Madonna hit the road with her Blond Ambition tour. Sharing her stage were seven super-buff, and extremely talented, male dancers. Blond Ambition’s lashings of sex and religion made it a cause célèbre – the Vatican described the show as satanic – and the ever-enterprising Madonna managed to milk the controversy the following year, too. Filmed backstage, her documentary Truth or Dare (aka In Bed With Madonna) featured scenes of the star and those dancers bitching, snogging and, in Madonna’s case, performing oral sex on a wine bottle. As one contemporary news report declared in shock: “There are...
There’s something very meta about this film – it’s almost a documentary about a documentary. In 1990, at the height of her imperial phase, a conical bra-clad Madonna hit the road with her Blond Ambition tour. Sharing her stage were seven super-buff, and extremely talented, male dancers. Blond Ambition’s lashings of sex and religion made it a cause célèbre – the Vatican described the show as satanic – and the ever-enterprising Madonna managed to milk the controversy the following year, too. Filmed backstage, her documentary Truth or Dare (aka In Bed With Madonna) featured scenes of the star and those dancers bitching, snogging and, in Madonna’s case, performing oral sex on a wine bottle. As one contemporary news report declared in shock: “There are...
- 4/17/2016
- by Alex Needham
- The Guardian - Film News
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