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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes May 1985 entertainment Madonna a Virgin comes of age by Frank Spotnitz United press International in August mtg went on the air with the buggies song video killed the radio by april of this a Young woman from Bay with a famous belly Button had fulfilled the songs Madonna Louise took to the stage for virtually the first time on april 11 at Seattle Paramount already a Star with two hugely successful albums behind her both of them still in the top two songs in the top two music videos constantly in rotation and a hit movie to the sultry Singer Calls this her Virgin playing both off the title of her latest like a and her relative inexperience this is a performer who has rocketed Forward without the years of playing in bars and lat night clubs that her predecessors the radio Star is the video Star the perception that Madonna had not paid her dues partially explains the Savage treatment she initially received in the but theres More to it than with her unabashed sexuality me cover you with velvet she cooed in Bare boy toy Bell buckle and  seemed a throwback to the sex object Days most critics were Happy to see go the Way of the manual it was a no doubt male Rock stars who project an image of sexual promiscuity Only draw knowing smiles but Madonna suffered from she especially rubbed against the Grain in a year when Cyndi the  Rocker from new was All Over the while Lauper excelled with Piaf like Madonna was Dis missed As a pinup who unlike who is Lauper is old enough to have experienced the Heady Early Days of the women movement and to have undergone her own personal Strug Gle to win Newsweek in she is an indifferent time said of but her voice has the whispered Assur acc of one of those phone Forse time added that hits such As like a Virgin and material girl arc like an endless series of All Promise and no she received even More unkind treatment in a lengthy rolling Stone article last november that suggested she had gone through a series of boyfriends who helped her Only to drop them when they no longer were of that article was really not said one member of the Madonna i mean it was factually but it want you could look at just about anybody career in this business and see it that Way if you wanted rolling Stone virtually does an about face this featuring Madonna in a fashion a reporter not the same one who profiled her last november actually writes fondly of one keeps waiting for the Brittle the self absorbed Bombshell who supposed to Lurk under her Vamp wriggling electronic but the Madonna who sits talking Over Coffee comes on disarmingly the mag Azine the tide has definitely turned and its Madonna who laughing critics who predicted six months ago shed fade away As quickly As she appeared Are having to eat their no less a critically respected figure than Prince is rumoured to have befriended and millions of fans Are pushing like a Virgin closer and closer to the 4millionunit Madonna is very much Here and More popular than her featured role in desperately seeking Susan apparently has Given her credentials no one had been will ing to she has received High Marks for her role in the although in truth she is Given Little Opportunity to prove just whether she can and increasingly is winning grudging admiration As a Clear thinker who knows what she wants and How to get that revisionist assessment of Madonna comes from Susan costar Rosanna who insists she and Madonna Are turning out to be Best but is reportedly upset about Madonna having taken most of the publicity Thunder from the after her Seattle Madonna toasted her successful transition from screen to stage with her fans at the concert were enthusiastic about her All Promise and no follow through boys just Wanna have fun by Vernon Scott United press International do you want to Star in movies if encourage your brother to become an movies currently arc enjoying a plethora of brotherly with More Kinsmen joining the ranks every the phenomenon of acting siblings is relatively although Brothers occasionally have cropped up in the probably the most famous were the Brothers Barry Lionel and both of whom became movie legends along with sister the entire Barrymore clan starred in Rasputin and the Empress Back in proudly heralding their but among celebrated Brothers of the past they were unique in maintaining the family the Marx Brothers and Brothers were family it was Only common sense that they advertised their family it later became fashionable for one brother to change his surname to avoid confusion and to be spared accusations of thus it is not commonly known that Jim Arness younger brother is Peter Graves real family name aurness nor that Dana an Drews kid brother is Steve by and Brothers have rarely achieved the same celestial the Hollywood archives reveal that such superstars of the past As Bogart and Wayne Hud no Brothers who were there Are so Many Brothers in the entertainment Field today it is difficult to Tell them apart without a pro for can you immediately discern the differ ence on screen Between Joseph and Timothy Bottoms and what of the talented Carradine clan Bobby and Keith one would have less trouble with Stacey and James reach since Stacey fall from Grace in England last year on a cocaine then there Are the extraordinary Quaid Randy and close the Quaid boys co starred recently in a play in brotherhood reached an Al time apogee with the production of the Long riders five years it starred the Carradine and reaches and was an excellent less Clannish Are the Bridges Jeff and both enormously at the moment Jeff is casting the larger Shadow thanks to his recent Best actor Oscar nomination for his performance in Young Eric Douglas is making a name for despite establishment of the Douglas Moniker by older brother not to mention father John Belushi was on his Way to super stardom when he overdosed on brother Jim has come along but so far has not attained Johns now a younger generation has surfaced with Brothers boosting Brothers into the spotlight Sean and Chris for and Rob and Chad and what about Matt and Kevin Dillon in All three cases older brother broke the ice for kid newest member of the brotherhood club is John younger sibling of Bill the Star of ghost busters among and lesser known Brian never acted a Day in his life until he was cast in a co starring role in the new moving Viola which of All one of the Keach having two Brothers in the business Hast John but it certainly Hast Brian wrote Cadd Shack and acted in it with Brian also appeared with Bill in the razors they had nothing to do with my getting the part in moving i was having dinner with some peo including an Andrea in new she kept telling me i looked like Bill Murray until 1 finally told i we have the same she advised me to become an but i want eventually i read for a part in head office but i didst get judge Reinhold after John won his role in moving his Brothers offered him some gratuitous Bill told me to get rid of my rental car and buy a which i Brian never talk to people and i John in time the Murray tribe May surpass the Carradine for sheer Brian and John have six Broth ers and including the youngest and who aspires to a show business i dont know if any of the others Are thinking about becoming said but 1 dont believe my sister Nancy has that in Shes a  
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