By Drew Grant 7/27/12 11:02am

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Madonna's decorations land her in trouble in le Paris (YouTube)

Madonna in Paris: Swastikas, Sluts, and the Making of a Fuhrer (Video)

Yesterday evening we all tuned in to watch the livestreamed concert of Madonna in Paris. And though we knew what to expect–nudity and swastikas have been part of Madge’s MDNA world tour since the beginning–she had already managed to rub the people of France the wrong way when she put up the Nazi symbol on the face of the new French party leader, Marine Le Pen. On Bastille Day, no less!

The leader of the far-right party has already threatened to sue the pop sensation, which she probably assumed would only help sell tickets.

The plan worked, sort of: turning her “small engagement” at the Olympia Club last night into a mob scene. Read More

By Staff 11/24/06 3:59pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Friday

  • Dumbo has been known as Rapailie and Olympia and Fulton Landing and Gairville. After its impending Landmarks designation, the place will get yet a new moniker. How about Rapailie Redux? Or David Walentasville? [Brooklyn Papers]
  • St. Nicholas Church was destroyed on 9/11, and, by 2009, it will be rebuilt two blocks away from Read More

    • By Andrew Sarris 1/28/02 12:00am

    The Real World? Solondz at School

    Todd Solondz’s Storytelling , from his own screenplay, is the work of an auteur whose six-year, three-movie career has been on the cutting edge so consistently that his directorial hands must be bleeding from his derisive stabs at what may laughingly be called the American Dream. Storytelling consists of two separate films, the much shorter Read More