Won't let her kids eat ice cream? What more is there to say?
Joanna
Doug Henwood wrote:
> New York Daily News - October 19, 2005
>
> Denouncing sin? Who is that girl?
>
> In her new movie, 'I'm Going to Tell You a Secret,' the many-mansioned
> Madonna attacks the material world.
>
> Once, she told papa not to preach. But now, at 47, Madonna has come
> down from the mount with a message for you sinners.
>
> People "are going to go to hell, if they don't turn from their wicked
> behavior," the singer proclaims in her new film, "I'm Going to Tell
> You a Secret."
>
> Despite her many homes, the former Material Girl says she has
> renounced "the material world. The physical world. The world of
> illusion, that we think is real. We live for it, we're enslaved by it.
> And it will ultimately be our undoing."
>
> Reading from Scripture at one point in the film, the mother of two -
> who won't let her children watch TV or eat ice cream - says, "I refer
> to an entity called 'The Beast.' I feel I am describing the world that
> we live in right now."
>
> All this seems to have come from her embracing the mystical Jewish
> teachings of the Kaballah. But it might seem strange to those who
> remember that the Catholic girl, confirmed as Madonna Louise Ciccone,
> used to go out of her way to shred the envelope with nose-cone bras
> and three-way "Sex" shots.
>
> Catholic League President William Donohue likes Madonna's new
> morality: "For her to have this sudden wakeup call - that the kind of
> behavior for which she is infamous is not salutary for young people -
> is refreshing."
>
> But he doesn't like her proclamation, also made in the documentary
> about her 2004 Re-Invention tour, that "most priests are gay." Donohue
> adds, "We're glad to see she is no longer with us. Jews will have to
> make up their own mind about whether they're going to welcome her.
> Lots of them don't want to."
>
> But Madonna is clearly beloved at the Kaballah Center in L.A.
>
> On Saturday, she dropped by a birthday party here for Karen Berg, wife
> of Kaballah Center honcho Phillip Berg. The woman who returns to the
> disco on her new CD, "Confessions From the Dance Floor," tried "to
> join in the dancing but immediately sat back down," says a spy.
>
> Apparently, she's still feeling the pain of the birthday riding
> accident on her English estate.
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