Rupert Everett says flop movie with Madonna put 'strain' on their friendship, 'finished' him in Hollywood

[MDNA22 1,283]

Think her vocals for American Pie and Time Stood Still are two of her best vocals on any recoding - she sounds so good on both of them 

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Madonna needs to do something with Time Stood Still, it’s one of her best songs, such a waste 

[Andreo 6,242]

Time Stood Still has to be put in a MUSIC reissue in the future, idc what anyone says. It cant be left in dust in that soundtrack

[MPowered 7,856]

19 hours ago, DoneGone said:

I don't know about that, she didn't seem in the mood to tour for some reason. Every time she was asked about that in 1998 it was all vague answers. She looked more exciting for all the movie projects she had in mind (she talked about the violin teacher movie a lot and that didn't happen). I know the tour was planned and in the pipeline but for some reason it wasn't meant to be anyway. Warner wanted to release a 1999 greatest hits compilation but she quickly convinced them to do a new album instead. She was ready to move on from "Ray Of Light" anyway, "The Next Best Thing" or not.

It was announced in 1999 though, so it was definitely planned. Christopher also submitted a concept to her that was later repurposed for the DWT.

What pains me the most is, that it was the last chance a lot of those great non-singles from 1994-1999 had to be performed. Because she was more passionate about flop movies, it didn’t happen.

The concept Christopher submitted was gonna have the concert split into 4 acts with each of them representing on of the 4 seasons. In the middle of the stage there was gonna be a tree (the tree of life probably) that would change the color of its leaves. Very very cool idea and it totally works with the songs from BS, STR, Evita and ROL.

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5 minutes ago, MPowered said:

It was announced in 1999 though, so it was definitely planned. Christopher also submitted a concept to her that was later repurposed for the DWT.

What pains me the most is, that it was the last chance a lot of those great non-singles from 1994-1999 had to be performed. Because she was more passionate about flop movies, it didn’t happen.

The concept Christopher submitted was gonna have the concept split into 4 acts with each of them representing on of the 4 seasons. In the middle of the stage there was gonna be a tree (the tree of life probably) that would change the color of its leaves. Very very cool idea and it totally works with the songs from BS, STR, Evita and ROL.

That sounds good and a natural evolution from "BAT" and "The Girlie Show". "DWT" ended up being quite a drastic departure from her previous tours. It lacked some of that "warmth" or something, but she was also more interested in darkness and violence anyway, probably because of the Ritchie influence.

In the end, she's the mastermind, whatever the influences around her.

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When she did DWT she had not toured in 8 years so she had a lot to unleash and dare i say, too much to unleash, it was too intense and heavy for a pop concert and felt more like a musical and it's her only tour where she was too distant from her audience maybe because there was too much theatrics to concentrate on so maybe a tour prior to it would have lifted the mood a bit.

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5 hours ago, androiduser said:

Wasn't it Fiddlefest?

Ooooh maybe, now I'm not 100% sure. I'll see if I can find out

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1 hour ago, me1981 said:

Ooooh maybe, now I'm not 100% sure. I'll see if I can find out

just checked, it was Fiddlefest

[Blue Jean 17,770]

Drowned World Tour is brilliant. One of her best.

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12 hours ago, ChrisK said:

omg Who's that girl - I've seen clips, and for me, I didn't enjoy what I saw lol. 

You’ve seen clips? What’s going on?

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6 minutes ago, Blue Jean said:

Drowned World Tour is brilliant. One of her best.

If we got the ROL tour instead of the movie, we wouldn't get DWT, things turned out just fine, DWT is amazing.

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22 hours ago, Tudors said:

Also saw a whole lot less of Benjamin Brat after this film and he was kinda an it boy at the time dating Julia Roberts. Also Michael Vartans career was also killed. My beautiful Michael Vaughn

Yeah, Michael Vartan's career was killed, but unlike Rupert, he still looks good

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When I met him in Glasgow.
He was wearing two polo shirts.
In a gay bar in Glasgow with a really much older guy.
I was called Adam then.

Hollywood 
oh yeah

 

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3 hours ago, Blue Jean said:

You’ve seen clips? What’s going on?

They were enough for me lol 

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4 hours ago, androiduser said:

If we got the ROL tour instead of the movie, we wouldn't get DWT, things turned out just fine, DWT is amazing.

At least not in the exact same way but we likely would have gotten a variation of it but with more hits. I think the oldies work much better with the songs from Music than they would have worked with the songs from ROL and BS. A ROL Tour definitely would have benefited the two following tours.

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2 hours ago, marcelwithluv said:

Yeah, Michael Vartan's career was killed, but unlike Rupert, he still looks good

Wait.....didnt he do Alias after this ??  Wouldnt call that a career killer