Well, it looks like the material Girl is now getting passe…although she has had a pretty good run. Here upcoming NYC concert is not selling well…it may have to be cancelled! But I really got a laugh about her TV interview (last Thursaday)…man, Madonna is really waxing philiosophical! She said George Bush and Saddam Hussein were the same (cause they both “behaved irresponsibly!”). It gets better…she now sees herslf as someone who is “concerned about the world”, and her recent study of Kabballa is giving her “new hope” for humanity!
By the way, her “Kabballa” name is “Esther”-she is really getting in to this stuff!
There seems to be nothing more pathetic than a has-been celebrity clinging to her 15 minutes of fame…will somebody kindly tell this hag to shut up?
How much longer,Oh lord?? 
I’m thinking of a different Esther.
The one who had a nephew named Lamont.
Fifteen minutes of fame? Madonna? What did you do, just come out of the cave? Also, she did not say that Bush and Saddam were the same. In fact, she went out of her way to emphasize that she was not saying that. She said that they shared in common the drive to be powerful, and she’s right.
I was thinking of Polyester, because she’s phony and passe.
LOL!
That’s the most ridiculous statement I think I have ever heard.
I always knew she was a good catholic girl
The irony of a Vogue Vixen calling someone passe is just too richly ironic to pass up.
I used to run a movie theater called the Vogue, actually. Madonna didn’t invent the word.
Madonna exudes Madonna. Doesn’t she always seem to be saying, “Don’t you wish you were Madonna?”, even without saying a word? She is (was?) an enormous talent on stage, and in the studio, who should never to be miscast as an intellectual heavyweight.
I actually know Madonna’s Kaballah teacher - he’s the ex-husband of a friend of the family. A Jewish ex-Marine biker, who got into Kaballah in a big way a few years ago after his Tel Aviv Harley-Davidson franchise tanked, he’s a nice guy, if kind of flakey. The thought of him providing enlightenment to anyone make us giggle uncontrollably.
Anyway, Madonna’s name change has the entire Israeli public in hysterics. “Esther” is such an ordinary, pedestrian name around here. It’s like experience spiritual rebirth and renaming yourself “Janet”.
“Esther” is actually a very ancient Hebrew name that translates to “For the Love of God, please, please someone pay attention to me!”
Maaaan, kung fu lola is gonna come in here and kick all y’all’s asses…
I’ve been a huge Madonna fan most of my life, and my name happens to be Esther, so this whole thing kind of shocks me in a weird way. Translated, Esther means “star”, so I think that’s why she chose it. Kind of puts a new spin on her spiritual rebirth, doesn’t it?
I think Madonna has reinvented herself so many times she’s run out of things to be. Still you have to admire her ability to last as long as she has in her field. I doubt Britney will have that kind of longevity. Still I think she lost a lot of people when she started the “look I’m classy and British now and I write children’s books” phase.
The funniest thing about the interview though was when she said she wished she could stop caring so much what people think about her. The interviewer said “well, it seems like you’ve never cared what people think of you”. She replied, “well, I’m a very good actress.” I almost snorted my drink out of my nose.
I’ll bet she’s a very good driver, too.
Esther isn’t even really a Hebrew name. It’s a Persian name. Queen Esther, from the Biblical Book of Esther was a Persian Jew. It means “myrtle”. I’m not sure exactly how common a name it is, but I’ve known at least one Israeli/American named Hadas, which is the actual Hebrew version of the name.
It slays me that Madonna is into Kaballah. Kaballah is a mystical sect of Judaism. When I hear that Madonna has stood in front of a Bet Din and been accepted as a convert to Judaism, then I’ll take her Kaballah fascination seriously. Kaballah is not a separate religion that you can follow independently of Judaism. I bet Muslims are just as annoyed by New Age “sufis” who’ve never read the Qur’an.
Actually, Esther is probably a Hebreized version of Isthar, the Babylonian goddess of something or another, just as her uncle Mordechai is likely a bastarization of Marduk.