Seemingly unable to talk about people who actually have talent (versus raw ambition, overly energetic constitutions and well funded publicity agents) or people who’ve shown the public something they want to see and/or hear for 15 years, the media is BUZZING of the latest story on Madonna’s failure to adopt a baby from the African nation of Malawi.
A win-win for the former “pop” star who seems to be constantly fighting to get her name in the media!
I always was amazed at how Elizabeth Taylor managed to keep her name in the tabloids decades after her performing career ended and did so without having to resort to such stunts. I forgive Ms. Taylor for her over-stayed presence, however, as she redeemed herself very well through her aids activism at a time when it wasn’t fashionable. I should also point out that Ms. Taylor didn’t “grace” us with one bad performance after another past her prime, or marry a movie director for little more than keeping her movie “career” going.
Madonna, on the other hand, has not been content to merely adopt children in need, rather, she has to do it in a way which would garner her as much PUBLICITY (cue fanfare) as she can. Of course she didn’t invent this wheel. The adoption-for-publicity-tour has been well traveled by the similarly over-rated Angelina Jolie, who has also failed to impress me time and again.
Understand
, if Madonna were to adopt one of the many thousands of children looking for homes in her locality, she would not get the world wide publicity (maybe not even national publicity) that she’s getting from looking to adopt from some obscure African country (is it a country, or some kind of territory? Newsflash: no one CARES.) (the map is shown here as an educational service). It would have been equally possible for Madonna to have kept the whole affair PRIVATE, but we can see that wasn’t part of the PLAN.
Kudos to Madonna for a Win-Win Victory!
If you’re asking why I would write that, you don’t get it. If you “got” it, then you’d know that the whole thing is for the purpose of global publicity. That being the case, once an adoption was made, unless the child somehow managed to garner further headlines, the publicity “ride” would be over, but the price would be on-going, and the price would be not just money but the most valuable of things: TIME.
But Madonna’s managed to pull out a major coup in that not only has she gotten the publicity she was looking for, but she now doesn’t have the burden of having to raise the kid (or rather, pay to have a nanny raise the kid).
Funny thing, on the morning of this writing, a woman interviewed on the BBC radio suggested that, even in the light of the failure to adopt this child, Madonna should pay some stipend for helping with its on-going needs. NICE TRY! Gotta love you Brits! Oh, WHY are you guys so fascinated with Africa?
But Madonna’s gotten her cake and she gets to eat it too! Congratulations, Madonna! We’re still talking about you!