07/14/2008
Christopher Ciccone Publicity Blitz Begins for Madonna Tell-All
Excerpts of Christopher Ciccone's tell-all Life with My Sister Madonna
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Madonna stands up at the top of the table and issues the instruction: 'Christopher, tonight it's your turn to give the toast.'
I lean down the baronial table and, with great emphasis, reply: 'Madonna, you really don't want me to do that.' It's a statement, not a question.
'No, Christopher, it's your turn!' she barks in a tone identical to the one she always used as a kid when she and my siblings all played Monopoly together.
If she didn't get Park Place [Mayfair in the English version] she invariably stamped her feet and said: 'But it's mine.' In those days, in the face of her strong will, I always capitulated and rescinded my purchase of Park Place.
Nothing seems to have changed. I stand up. My fellow guests fall silent out of respect - the brother of the bride is about to make a speech. I raise my glass: 'I'd like to toast this happy moment that comes only twice in a person's lifetime.'
Then, without skipping a beat, I go on: 'And if anybody wants to **** Guy, he'll be in my room later.'
Everyone erupts in laughter. Everyone, of course, except Madonna, who keeps saying: 'What did he mean?' Guy, who I suspect knows exactly what I mean, says nothing and avoids looking at me.
Soon after, Trudie [Styler] tells me: 'That was hysterical. I've been listening to all those homophobic jokes. I just want you to know that we were aware of how you must be feeling.'
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Ciccone also appeared this morning on Good Morning America. You can watch that, AFTER THE JUMP...
Previously
Ciccone Tell-All Cover Revealed as Madonna Denies Divorce, Affair [tr]
Christopher Ciccone writing Memoir: Life with My Sister Madonna [tr]
(clip via queerty)
Posted 10:08 AM EST by Andy Towle in Books, Christopher Ciccone, Guy Ritchie, Madonna, News | Permalink
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from the excerpts i read, CC sounds like a spoiled brat. and madonna does, too. they are both cut out of the same cloth. big frickin' deal. i don't know that it was so much about "getting his voice heard" as it was for money AND revenge. and more for money even than revenge. he doesn't come across as the better person here; he is no better than what he is making madonna out to be. he gets no sympathy from me from what he claims madonna has pulled on him.
Posted by: chuck | Jul 15, 2008 2:08:18 AM