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Sep 8 2013, 01:43 AM
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This appears to be a repeat of an article from 2006, from another site. I don't know why this is turning up on Google News again today.
Madonna Quits Acting - by: WENN.com Source
8:53am EST [appeared online September 2013]
Madonna has vowed never to star in another movie, because she fears her terrible acting reputation will condemn any film.
The pop superstar has worked on a string of notorious flops including Shanghai Surprise, Swept Away and Body of Evidence.
She explains, "What film can survive people saying it's going to be a bomb from the second it's announced?
"Making movies is such an effort.
"And to do that over and over again, with the possibility that I am going to get the (bleep) kicked out of me--and they really enjoy doing it--I mean, it doesn't make sense.
"I have sort of let it go."
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Mar 9 2015, 02:11 PM
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This has been copied to one million other threads on the board.
The Time Madonna Almost Quit Music for Good- Lily Rothman
March 2015
The new 'Rebel Hearts' is her 13th studio album
Madonna’s 13th studio album, Rebel Hearts, due out Mar. 10, is a sure a sign of any of a long and productive career. But when she burst onto the scene 30 years ago, it wasn’t clear what the future would hold for the Material Girl.
.... [article discusses how Madonna had some success with the movie DSS and therefore thought about going into movies rather than continuing with music]
Madonna admits that Susan, except for her four-second attention span, is to some extent a self-caricature, and it remains to be seen what she could do with a role that required her to wear grown-ups’ clothes.
The guess here is that she would be very good. It does not take much imagination to see her in the Judy Holliday role in Born Yesterday, beating Broderick Crawford at gin rummy.
Hollywood thinks so too. Director Herbert Ross, who did Funny Girl and Footloose, is considering her, he says, for the lead in a movie about Stripper Blaze Starr. Producer Ray Stark has talked with her about starring in a film about Libby Holman, the ’20s and ’30s torch singer. ”Considering” and ”talking with” do not cost much, of course, but Madonna‘s considering is moving in the same direction.
”I don’t think of myself as a rock star,” she tells an interviewer as she cools out in her hotel room after her concert two weeks ago in New Orleans. The comment is not a gesture at modesty; Madonna is not modest.
Nor, for that matter, is she puffed up with self-importance. She has a very clear, cold view of her strengths and weaknesses, and those of the wide world too. She got her first training as a dancer (she won a scholarship in dance at the University of Michigan, but she stayed only 1 1/2 years).
She became a fairly good rock drummer and guitarist during her knockabout years as a musician in New York City, then turned to rock singing because she realized she wasn’t going anywhere in the dance world. She says that she might do another rock tour, if her manager Freddy DeMann ”puts a gun to my head,” but clearly it is almost time for another career change. ------ Later in the story, she said that, while she planned to make more albums, the rock-star life was too grueling and that her ambition was to be a great actress. Of course, though she continued to add to her film credits, from A League of Their Own to Evita, that career change didn’t materialize. Three decades after that cover story, she’s still closer to a rock star than to anything else.
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Mar 9 2015, 04:48 PM
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Lolita Davidovich ended up playing Blaze Starr, & did it well. The Libby Holman movie never got made, but Debra Winger was also considered for the role before it disappeared into a production black hole.
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