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Madonna with Lourdes, Mercy, Jesus, Guy Oseary, Eugene (Gogol Bordello), Sergio Cabral and Dilma Roussef at the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro’s Sambadrome (February 14 2010)

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Madonna and Jesus Luz out for an evening meal in Rio de Janeiro (February 13 2010)

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Arianne Phillips, 46, is an American costume designer, a freelance fashion editor (for, among others, Harper’s Bazaar, American Vogue and Numéro magazine), and has been Madonna’s stylist for 13 years. She has been nominated for a Bafta for her work on Tom Ford’s film A Single Man. She lives in LA with her boyfriend and two dogs.

How do you juggle all your different projects?

I’ve crafted this career on my short attention span — this is how I keep my work fresh. I would have wilted in a nine-to-five.

What’s your schedule like?

I travel a lot for Madonna — for one tour, there’s 12 weeks of prep and I’ll go to the first five shows. For my fashion work, I shoot in LA and New York and go to all the shows. I work 12 hours a day. I get up early to deal with Europe and stay up late to email, but I’m not a workaholic and I enjoy not working.

It sounds chaotic – how do you manage it?

I’m always having conversations with my boyfriend: should I do this or that? Working with Madonna, I have missed opportunities, but essentially it’s about planning. I suffer anxiety from the juggling, but I’m used to the fluency now.

What have you learnt from working with Madonna?

She taught me to keep my eye on the prize and not be seduced by others’ opinions. I’m not fluent in it like she is, but it really helped my confidence and sense of self.

How do you manage the egos?

It takes mutual respect and compromise. There have been many times when Madonna and I haven’t agreed — I didn’t win with the cowboy hat — but it’s not the end of the world. I won’t work with people with whom I don’t have a meeting of minds and aesthetics; I don’t give artists a new image because their old one doesn’t work.

Do you have a strategy to get your way?

Presents and flattery. If I want to sell a concept, I make a big effort to do my homework, to turn a vague opinion into something with purpose.

Complete interview at TimesOnline

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Price: £19.99
Release date: March 29, 2010
Number of Discs: 2

The 10 most valuable UK picture discs, list by Record Collector Magazine

1. Madonna – Erotica 12″ (withdrawn, 1992) – £2000
2. Madonna – Crazy For You 7″ (uncut, 1985) – £1000
3. Paul McCartney & Wings – Back To The Egg LP (1979) – £900
4. Madonna – Into The Groove 12″ (1985) – £750
5. Madonna – Dress You Up 7″ (uncut. 1985) – £750
6. Madonna – Borderline 7″ (uncut, 1986) – £750
7. Freddie Mercury – Made In Heaven 7″ (uncut, 1985) – £500
8. Freddie Mercury The Great Pretender 7″ (uncut, 1987) – £350
9. Iron Maiden – The Trooper 7″ (uncut, 1983) – £200
10. Pink Floyd – The First XI (box set with two picture discs, 1979) – £200

Madonna out for a dinner in Rio de Janeiro (February 13 2010)

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Madonna returning to Rio de Janeiro, after a brief trip to Angra dos Reis (February 13 2010)

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Madonna received a donation of $1 Million from Brazilian brewery. The check was delivered on Friday (February 12) by the president of AmBev, Joao Castro Neves.

The funds will support the start of Madonna’s charity organization ‘Success For Kids’ in Rio de Janeiro, scheduled for March this year.

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Madonna, the queen of pop, has her eye on a king.
She’s set to direct “W.E.,” a biopic about the affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson that led to the Brit royal abdicating from the throne to marry his divorcee lover.

Vera Farmiga (“Up in the Air”) is eyeing the plum role of Simpson, who precipitated the most severe constitutional crisis in the English monarchy in the 20th century after Edward proposed to her, only months into his reign.

There is no word yet on who will play King Edward.

Madonna is writing the script with Alex Keshishian, who directed the multihyphenate in “Truth or Dare.”

Former Miramax exec Colin Vaines and David Parfitt are producing the pic. CAA is handling domestica sales while IM Global has international.

This will which will be Madonna’s second directorial effort; her first, “Filth and Wisdom,” preemed at Berlin in 2008. Simpson led a colorful life, having been married twice before her romance with Edward. The two of them, who lived the rest of their lives as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, spent the best part of three decades living a life of leisure as social celebrities around the world.

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She’s 0-for-2 in the marriage game, but that won’t stop Madonna from judging other people’s domestic disputes.

The pop icon will appear on NBC’s The Marriage Ref, the Jerry Seinfeld-created show about warring couples that premieres Feb. 28, the network confirms.

Twice divorced (from Sean Penn and Guy Richie), the Material Girl will sit on a celebrity panel to determine the winner of the family feud.

source: people