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Following her parting with longtime management client Madonna, Caresse Henry says she is still in discussions with Sanctuary Group to join the diversified music company, and is seeking other artists.
“Management is what I do best,” she told Billboard, “and hope in a short time I will be fortunate to find other brilliant people to work with and endeavor to make the music business more profitable and interesting, culminating in success for all.”
She declined to comment on Madonna other than “we had a remarkable span” together.
Henry, Madonna’s former assistant, began managing the artist after Madonna split with Freddy DeMann in 1997. Henry co-managed Madonna with Q-Prime from 1997 through 1999, and then assumed full-time managerial duties. She has also briefly managed Paulina Rubio and co-managed Jessica Simpson.
London-based Sanctuary’s management roster includes Destiny’s Child, Mary J. Blige, Nelly, Slipknot and the Von Bondies.
source : billboard/reuters

Princess Diana has been voted the most inspiring female role model of all time.
Diana, who died in 1997 at just 36, used her global fame to champion a string of charities, including Aids awareness.
She also gave strength to millions by revealing her battles with the slimmers’ disease bulimia.
Britain’s first female PM Baroness Thatcher, 79, came second in the poll of 6,000 women.
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A company spokesman said: “All these women helped shape our world. Women today should be indebted to them.”

The top10 are:
1. Princess Diana
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Madonna
4. Mother Teresa
5. Marilyn Monroe
6. Audrey Hepburn
7. Queen Elizabeth I
8. Florence Nightingale
9. Emmeline Pankhurst
10. Marie Curie
source : thesun.co.uk

Despite rumors to the contrary, Madonna told MTV Europe that she isn’t planning to do a cameo in her husband Guy Ritchie’s film “Revolver,” currently shooting in London. Madge, however, does have other movie plans in the works – for her book “The English Roses.” She said it would hopefully go into production this year. “It takes forever to get a movie made,” she said. “So fingers crossed.” As for her tour documentary that’s supposed to hit theaters next year, she doesn’t have a name for the project yet, but she hopes it’ll be out by May.
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Madonna has been inducted into the first UK Music Hall Of Fame – and received a hilarious message from close pals Stella McCartney and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Hollywood actress Gwyneth and designer Stella put together a video tribute to the Material Girl by wearing some of her outlandish outfits.
Madge gasped as they appeared on a big screen at London’s Hackney Empire – Stella dressing in a ‘Material Girl’ dress and Gwyneth donning a conical bra and basque.
Robbie Williams, Michael Jackson and the Rolling Stones were also among those inducted into the hall of fame at a star-studded ceremony.
The public has chosen one act to represent each decade since the Fifties as part of a new Channel 4 show.
Robbie represents the 1990s, Jacko the ’80s, Queen the ’70s, the Rolling Stones the ’60s and Sir Cliff Richard the ’50s.
As well as Madonna, other honorary members included Bob Marley, Elvis Presley, U2 and the Beatles.
Madonna, 46, received her honorary award from artists Tracey Emin and Radio One DJ Jo Whiley.
Wearing a Remembrance Day poppy, Madge gushed: “If someone had told me while I was a little girl growing up in mid-west America that one day I’d be married to a Brit, living in England and inducted into the UK Hall Of Fame, I would have said: ‘b******s to that’.”
source : sky

Once again the British public have proved their inane daftness by inducting some extremely strange choices into the UK Music Hall Of Fame.
In conjunction with a Channel 4 TV series shown each Sunday evening the public were asked to choose their favourite act from a select few to represent a decade of music since the 1950’s with over 1.6 million viewers voting.
The Hall Of Fame also inducted honorary members. They were Madonna, Bob Marley, Elvis Presley, U2 and The Beatles.
All the above were honoured in a ceremony at London’s Hackney Empire.
Madonna said: “It means a lot to me that so many nice things have been said about me and that I have been voted into the UK Hall Of Fame.”
Viewers voted as follows:
1990’s – Robbie Williams (This performer beat Nirvana, Blur and Oasis, how?)
1980’s – Michael Jackson (Fair Enough)
1970’s – Queen (Whatever)
1960’s – The Rolling Stones (Damn Right!)
1950’s – Cliff Richard (There was no one else alive then)
Chris Blackwell, the man who founded Island Records and introduced reggae to Britain also received an honorary trophy.
The ceremony will be shown on Channel 4 on Sunday.
source : gigwise

Pop queen Madonna showed her emotional side last night (Nov 11) as she accepted her Music Hall of Fame award.
According to the Daily Mirror, Madonna, along with Elvis Presley, Bob Marley, The Beatles and U2, were selected as the founding members of the awards by an industry committee, for their outstanding contribution to music.
Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley and artist Tracey Emin presented her with the gong.
In her acceptance speech the 46-year-old mother of two said: “If anybody had told me when I was a little girl growing up in the Mid-West that I would be married to a Brit, be living in England and be inducted into the Music Hall of Fame I would have said “b******s to that!”"
She added: “I have to thank Tracey Emin who truly is la grande fica [a colourful Italian insult], Jo Whiley, Stella McCartney and Gwyneth Paltrow, who are truly formidable women.
“In spite of the title for this ceremony, I think this award is more to do with my accomplishments than my fame.
“Just because I am famous, doesn’t mean I don’t have anything to say.”
Madge went on: “If I am grateful for anything in my career, it’s the long, arduous, painstaking journey that started 20 years ago in the Mid-West.
“It is the voice I have been given, the voice to ask questions with, challenge with, explode with, create with, laugh with and cry with and I am also truly grateful my voice has given other people a voice.
“I am so grateful to the people who have stuck their neck out for me and taken the slaps. I’ve taken many slaps and I don’t regret a thing.
“I’m grateful for those slaps. I’m grateful I had something to provoke them with.
“I’m grateful people were listening and are still listening.”
Ok, ok, Madge so you’re grateful!
The event, which took place in London’s Hackney Empire, saw Madonna’s pals, Stella McCartney and Gwyneth Paltrow dress up as the pop queen to do a send-up of one of her songs.
Madge said: “It was really cool. I got pretty emotional up there but it was hysterical to see Stelly and Gwyneth really pull me off.”
source : icnetwork.co.uk

Superstar Madonna has been named in America’s 2004 Jewish power list in The Forwarder weekly newspaper – despite her protestations.
The Material Girl has been added to the ‘Forward 50′ – the publication’s annual survey to the most powerful and influential Jewish Americans, due to her following of mystical Jewish offshoot The Kabbalah.
But Madonna’s spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg told The Forward repeatedly that “Madonna is not Jewish”, explaining “it wouldn’t be appropriate to include her on such a list”.
The paper’s editor JJ Goldberg says, “There are a lot of differences of opinion about the nature of the Jewish community – who’s Jewish and who isn’t.
“She’s a practitioner of the Kabbalah, so she’s practicing Judaism, for Christ’s sake! Well, not really for Christ’s sake. But she’s probably the world’s best-known practitioner of Judaism right now.”
Other stars on the list include Israeli-born actress Natalie Portman, comedian Jon Stewart and baseball player Shawn Green.
Madonna has been studying the Kabbalah since 1997 and introduced it to her film maker husband Guy Ritchie.
source : contact music

Humble pop superstar Madonna insisted she is still astonished by her achievements, after being inducted into the UK Music Hall Of Fame last night.
The Material Girl was given an honorary award at the first ever ceremony in London – and launched into an emotional speech about her career
She said, “If anyone had told me when I was a little girl growing up in the Mid-West that I would be married to a Brit, be living in England and be inducted into the Music Hall of Fame I would have said, ‘B**locks to that!’
“In spite of the title of this ceremony, I think this award is more to do with my accomplishments than my fame.
“Just because I am famous, doesn’t mean I don’t have anything to say.
“It is the voice I have been given, the voice to ask questions with, challenge with, explode with, creative with, laugh with and cry with and I am also truly grateful my voice has given other people a voice.
“I am so grateful to the people who have stuck their neck out for me and taken the slaps.
“I’ve taken many slaps and I don’t regret a thing.”
source : contactmusic

Gwyneth Paltrow and Stella McCartney will team up tonight to take the mickey out of their mutual friend Madonna. Both best friends of the singer, the pair are set to dress up as her and perform a parody of one of her performances during tonight’s launch of the UK Hall Of Fame In Hackney, East London. “Gwyneth and Stella wear outrageous Madonna costumes,” a source told The Daily Mirror. “It’s a scream.” The show is also set to feature a performance by Robbie Williams who will pick up an award for Artist of the Nineties.
source : vogue

Pop star Madonna spent a day reading to schoolchildren and fans as she launched her fourth book The Adventures of Abdi.
The 46-year-old entertained 250 people who queued for tickets for the reading at the Selfridges department store in Oxford Street, London.
She also read a 10-minute extract to 30 pupils from St Winifred’s Catholic Junior School in Lee, south London.
The book is based on the Kabbalah faith which Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie have embraced in recent years.
The latest illustrated story, part of a series of five tales, centres on Italian greyhound Lotsa de Casha, a wealthy dog who is still unhappy.
Madonna has said she wanted her books to have a message as well as inspire young people.
source : bbcnews