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WARNING:

As you may be aware, my screen name at the discussion board is "flea dip," and people at the board sometimes call me "flea" for short.

In the past few months, someone (I think it's the same person) has been logging in under the name "flea dip" or "flea" at various blogs and forums and leaving messages saying that flea no longer dislikes Madonna.

A friend from the Anti Madonna board informed me that, once again, some block-head is impersonating me, this time at liberal blog "Huffington Post."

It's probably the same clown.

I have never posted at "Huffington Post" under the name "flea dip" or any variation of that name.

(Edit. I did recently, as of Feb. 9, 2011, post at Huff Po under the name "TheRealFlea" two or three times, and I posted there under that same name in March or April of 2011.) Sept 2011: Someone posed as myself and as board member Super Amanda at a blog called "Indie Wire." It wasn't us.

If you see someone posting as "flea dip" or "flea" at other sites, forums, or blogs, remember: it might not be me.

UPDATES: new links added under October 2011 (see archives), as well as entries for Nov and Dec 2011 (again, see the archives)

JAN 2012

Madonna-directed "WE" movie is flop in UK / Bad Reviews

Super Amanda found this spectacular video review of WE:

‎'We' Review by Mark Kermode on BBC2 (You Tube video)

Madonna Movie 'WE' Flops At UK Box Office‎

Madonna's directorial debut 'W.E.' failed to chart in the Top 10 of the UK Box Office in its opening weekend.

The drama, which has attracted mixed reviews from critics, took only £182,914 from 172 screenings since its opening on Friday, January 20.

Other negative reviews of WE from January 2012:

Reviews - New Movies Opening January 20th 2012

Madonna's W.E v Haywire: Film Face-Off

An amorous Russian security guard? Madonna's dislocation from reality spreads to her debut feature film W.E

Excerpts:

By Chris Tookey
Last updated at 1:18 AM on 20th January 2012
W.E (15)
Verdict: A royal mess
Rating: Star Rating

Cruel critics may list all the ways in which Madonna’s film about the Royal Family in the Thirties is worse than The King’s Speech.

The kindest thing to say about W.E., her addle-pated fanzine to Wallis Simpson, is that it’s not entirely a disaster.

The costumes, jewellery and furnishings are excellent, the cinematography is above reproach and Andrea Riseborough has a noble stab at the impossible, which is to turn the scheming seducer of the spoiled, drippy Edward VIII (James D’Arcy) into a helpless victim.

However, there’s no way to overlook the ineptitude of the screenplay by Madonna and long-time collaborator Alex Keshishian.

In particular, a modern story about a young woman appropriately known as Wally (Abbie Cornish), who endures marital abuse while naively contemplating Wallis’s life, is a hilariously misconceived framing device.

It is also astonishingly dull, taking up too much of the movie and adding nothing to our understanding of Edward and Mrs Simpson’s relationship.

Madonna’s dislocation from reality is everywhere, not least in her invention of an amorous Russian security guard at Sotheby’s (Oscar Isaac).

....The film also, crucially, fails to make us feel anything for either of its central couples. Madonna is a cold, emotionless actress, and this carries over into her directing style.

Stylistically, the picture is a shambles...

....Madonna glosses over the extent to which her two heroes fraternised with Hitler and other prominent Nazis. Her purpose is to worship her Madonna-like central character for finding fame, wealth and love, only to discover life at the top is no picnic either.

So making this film may be worthwhile therapy for Madge, but it’s a colossal, narcissistic bore for the rest of us.

WE More costume than drama from this limp period romance directed by Madonna

Film Review: 'W.E.'

Cinema: Review - James D’Arcy and Andrea Riseborough in Madonna's W.E - Rating: 1 Out Of 5 Stars

Excerpts:

By DAN CARRIER

Whatever the mega-rich star is up to, she should never be allowed to go anywhere near a director’s camera again.

This film, which is a weird biopic of Wallis Simpson, interspersed with the tale of a woman living in contemporary times who becomes infatuated by the Edward and Mrs Simpson story, is utterly lacking in any clarity, or any redeeming features, and even has super-dodgy moments of making excuses for the Prince of Wales’ well-known admiration for Nazi Germany.

It is basically a horrible film to watch.

Madonna's W.E., review -Telegraph

Excerpts:

by Robbie Collin

Madonna has been touring her biopic of Wallis Simpson around film festivals since last September, when it was received in Venice about as warmly as a six-foot rise in sea levels. The film has since been back in the cutting room, but like the Terminator T-1000 robot striding away from an exploding truck, its awfulness has emerged almost entirely unscathed.

....W.E. is — still — a stultifyingly vapid film, festooned with moments of pure aesthetic idiocy. With characteristic humbleness, Madonna performs a song called 'Masterpiece’ over the end credits, although one can’t help but feel that her 2003 number one single 'Sorry’ might have been more appropriate.

Piers Morgan: Madonna has "Grotesque Arms"

I've always thought Madonna is highly annoying - and I know the feeling's mutual

by Piers Morgan

Ms Ciccone perfectly exemplifies this crazy new body-sabotaging regime, with a gruesome display of muscle-bound pecs-twitching that actually made me physically gag.

My revulsion towards the Material Girl – currently banned from my CNN show for a lifetime of oral and sartorial offences – is only matched by Elton’s.

Piers Morgan says banned Madonna is grotesque‎

Piers Morgan Slams Madonna's 'Grotesque' Arms‎

'Madonna's arms are grotesque:' Piers Morgan doesn't hold back as he celebrates the first anniversary of his CNN show

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:37 PM on 17th January 2012
Last year, he announced Madonna was banned from his new CNN nightly programme.

And as Piers Morgan celebrated his one year anniversary of Tonight with Piers Morgan, he again spoke out against the singer, labelling her appearance at this weekend's Golden Globes as 'grotesque.'

On U.S. daytime talk show The View yesterday, his main gripe seemed to be about the material girl's muscly arms.

When asked by The View hosts including Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar what he thought of the Queen of Pop's appearance, he replied: 'Grotesque. Why would any woman want to look like a caveman? I'm serious.'

Piers then claimed she was still 'banned' from his show 'mainly because of the arms.'

He added: 'I don't want arms like that on my show. Long sleeves, maybe she can come on.'

The 46-year-old former News of the World editor last year banned Madonna for the show for being 'too boring,' adding that 'we've never seen eye to eye.'

Feminism

Fiona McCade: Madonna out of tune with today's feminism‎

[snip intro where author describes her dad as being unable to cook for himself]

I thought my dad was a one-off, but now I know he’s not. In fact, he shares a very special bond with Madonna, who said in a television interview last week: “I don’t think I’ve ever cooked a meal entirely by myself.”

When she was questioned further about this unusual achievement, she said: “My nannies cook, my housekeeper cooks, the drivers cook, everybody cooks.” But when she was asked if she could cook anything at all, she got very feisty indeed: “‘No,” she spat back, “But I do everything else. Do I have to do everything?”

There, there, Madonna, love. I understand. You shimmy about all day in your leotard, desperately shaking your tassels to keep your family in the manner to which they have become accustomed, then the moment you sit down for a cup of mineral water and a Ryvita, some bleedin’ interviewer asks you if you’re capable of feeding yourself. What a cheek.

I’m glad Madonna was up-front and truthful about her culinary deficiencies. At least she didn’t cop out by saying: “My surgeon says if I go too close to the stove, my face will melt.” The trouble is, her anti-domestic stance – “I’m the breadwinner and I don’t have to go into the kitchen if I don’t want to” – is oddly out of tune with the current feminist zeitgeist.

Madonna made her name in the ’80s, and it certainly looks as though she thinks that Alpha Females still wear big shoulder pads, shout a lot, and have Help.

Unfortunately for her, times have moved on. Now, we have the likes of Nigella Lawson being Domestic Goddesses and showing us that strength and nurturing aren’t mutually exclusive. Today, women’s liberation means you don’t have to read Spare Rib; you can also enjoy marinating some, in sweet chilli sauce and red wine vinegar, without losing a shred of your credibility. The choice is yours.

I’m no great fan of cooking, but I have this image of Madonna coming home after a hard day’s shimmying and yelling: “Servants, where’s me meal?” Scarily like my dad.

The problem with the “I put the food on the table, so I don’t have to prepare it, too” argument – so beloved of both Madonna and my father – is that it’s essentially disempowering. I’ve always associated liberation with independence, self-reliance and capability. But if you can’t look after yourself, if you need other people to get your food for you because you have no idea how to do it, that’s not freedom, is it? In fact, it’s quite sad.

Earning lots of money is all very well, but it’s no substitute for being a real grown-up. You can pay someone to wipe your behind, if you like, but that won’t make people respect you. I love my dad, but my mum – who keeps him alive and our family functioning – is the really strong one.

If my dad and Madonna got lost in the jungle, they’d both be dead of starvation in a couple of days (if they didn’t kill each other first).

But if Nigella went AWOL in the rainforest, when the rescue party found her she’d be happily roasting a lemur with wild honey and crushed ants.

And if you can do that, who cares if you can’t fit into a leotard.

Madonna is not Approachable, Friendly

Madonna 'doesn't do small talk'

Madonna isn't "big on small talk", says James D'Arcy.

The British actor stars as Britain's King Edward VIII in the superstar's latest directorial offering W.E. James says there wasn't much time to admire Madonna, as the filming schedule was so busy.

He also revealed that the 53-year-old Queen of Pop didn't engage in much conversation beyond discussing the script.

"[The awe] is over in ten seconds. There's no time on a film set to be in awe. Once you start talking to a human being, they become a human being. They stop being a cardboard cut out or a poster or a video," he told Cover Media. "And particularly because I wasn't talking to her about her life that she is very well known for in the public arena - we were talking about this film. She's not big on small talk, Madonna, so we talked about the work we were doing.

Homosexuals finally catching on that Madonna is not for them

Is Madonna turning her back on the gay community?

Hat tip second link: board member Super Amanda

A Letter To Madonna From a Concerned Gay

Excerpt:

by Domenick Scudera

Dear Madge:

Over the years, I was "crazy for you" just as much as the next gay, but lately I am worried. You had a solid handle on the pulse of pop culture once. Now you seem out-of-step. What happened?

Case in point: the Golden Globes. Ricky Gervais, when introducing you, rolled his eyes as he said you were "like a virgin." You are a 53-year-old woman with several children who published an erotic book titled Sex. You are obviously not a virgin. Ricky's joke was a poor attempt at humor. But what did you do in response to this "insult"? Tit for tat, you said, "If I'm still just like a virgin, Ricky, then why don't you come over here and do something about it? I haven't kissed a girl in a few years on TV."

That's the best you could come up with? Your rejoinder is calling him a girl? Is there something wrong with being a girl?

Oh, Madonna, I am so disappointed in you.

....Oh, Madonna, don't reduce yourself to being catty, bitter, and pretentious. Who's that girl? I am desperately seeking the Madonna of yesteryear: daring, a ray of light, in a league of her own. That girl is still inside you somewhere, I bet. Please bring her back. Open you heart, express yourself like you used to do, so that I can justify my love for you again.

Tacky Fashion

Are you really going out dressed like that, Mum? Lourdes keeps her head down as Madonna, 53, mimics her teenage look

Looking more like a member of a teenage girlband, she completed her dressed-down look with a wooly hat, black and white patterned scarf the obligatory sunglasses as she smiled for waiting photographers.

Christopher Ciccone

From the Perez Hilton site:

"Madonna's Bro Uses Facebook To Talk Smack On Her!‎"

Excerpt:

[Madonna's brother Christopher's Facebook entry]: I dig my sis…..but she still needs to learn to shut up… I mean "Reductive", "look it up"?…what kind of idiocy is that…

Slams and Put Downs - Elton John

Elton John's Hubby SLAMS MADONNA You're Desperate & Narcissistic

Elton John's Husband: Madonna Is 'Embarrassing' and 'Desperate'

Madonna, Elton John and David Furnish Make Up‎

David Furnish, Elton John’s husband, backpedals on post-Golden Globes anti-Madonna rant

Elton John's Husband Backtracks On Madonna Statements

Elton John's husband: Sorry for Madonna speech slam

Madonna should quit movies, feels Furnish

Singer Elton John's partner David Furnish targeted pop star Madonna, calling her Golden Globes win "a fluke" and urging her to "stick to what she's good at". Madonna's number Masterpiece from her directorial project W.E., won the best original song - motion picture at the Golden Globes ceremony here Sunday and this infuriated Furnish, who later wrote on social networking site, "Madonna. Best song????!!!(sic)"

Furnish has now questioned her win at the Globes and says that she should quit moviemaking. "I think it was a fluke... When this happens you have to question the integrity of the awards. Did Madonna get the Golden Globe because she attended the awards and agreed be a presenter?

"Can you sing Madonna's song? Can you hum it? It's a song nobody has heard, from a film few have seen. The award should have gone to (nominee) Mary J. Blige or Elton. I like Madonna's music, but not her movies. She should stick to what she is good at," showbizspy.com quoted the 49-year-old as saying.

Madonna on Elton John's Fury Over Golden Globe Win: 'I Don't Feel Bad'‎

Furnish fires at Madonna

Madonna blasted by David Furnish

Elton John's Husband Rips Madonna

Madonna and Elton John in Globes war of words

Elton John's Husband David Furnish Lashes Out on Madonna at 2012 Golden Globes

Hicks: Madonna and Elton John feuding

Madonna beats Elton John to win pettishness award

Lady Gaga is not a Madonna rip off or clone

Madonna Throws Stones at Lady Gaga from Glass House [by Scott Finley]

In the editorial above, Finley points out that Madonna has no place to criticize Gaga for allegedly copying off her, since Madonna has been sued for ripping off other people, and he rightly points out that Madonna's "Express Yourself" sounds like a rip off of an older song by someone else.

Finley thinks that Madonna's "Express Yourself" sounds like a rip off of "Respect Yourself," (by the Staple Singers), but to me, it sounds more like a rip off of Charles Wright's "Express Yourself"

• Listen to "Express Yourself" by Charles Wright

As other board members and myself have documented at this site and the discussion board for several years now, Madonna has been copying other celebrites for over 20 years.

Board member Super Amanda has also created a list of Madonna rip offs that can be viewed here: Madonna Queen of Rip Offs

Animals

More Stars Who Piss Off PETA (Photos)

Madonna
Niki Nikolova / FilmMagic
According to PETA, it took more than 60 chinchillas to make the fur coat Madonna was seen wearing in 2006. “Madonna is just too old to flash her beaver like Britney Spears, so she brought out the chinchilla,” PETA said.

In 2009 Madonna was named “Worst Dressed” by the animal-rights organization, which stated that while she may be on the prowl for a “young cub,” wearing fur “doesn’t make you a cougar.”

Since then Madonna has been criticized by PETA for ordering 110 pounds of “kosher” meat to be brought to her in Tel Aviv during her “Sticky and Sweet” tour. From this record, it would take years of repentance to put this “Like a Virgin” singer on saintly terms with PETA’s followers.

Clumsy

For a former dancer she is not coordinated. Or graceful.

Madonna steps on train of Jessica Biel's dress

Golden Globes 2012: Watch it Madonna! Singer steps on Jessica Biel's dress in red carpet blunder

Superbowl Half Time Show - nobody likes the choice of Madonna (see also December 2011 - in site archives -for Gene Simmons being against Madonna performing at the Super Bowl)

Monkey Rides Dog, and Overshadows Madonna Halftime Anticipation‎

‘Gayest Superbowl halftime show ever’?

No Material Girls Need Apply: 10 Halftime Acts That Are Better Than Madonna

Madonna Fans/ Madonna finds her loyal fans "annoying"

Madonna furious at leaks within own camp

Madonna is investigating several of her associates for selling music, video footage and sensitive pictures of her behind her back.

It all kicked off before Christmas, when a Spanish fan was rumbled releasing seven new songs from her forthcoming album on the internet. Now, Madonna is hot on the trail of the guilty party within her own camp who leaked the songs, The Sun reported.

A source said, "Her camp were aware of the Spanish character because he was an annoying super-fan. They were on to him for actively leaking and selling new and old unreleased tracks online."

Madonna Receives Ungrateful Response from Fans at E.W. Premiere [PHOTOS]