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Ah, the universal birthday conundrum: What do you get the
woman who has everything?
Wasn’t it a wise man who said, “It’s the
thought that counts”?
As we celebrate the forty-seventh year
of our favorite Leo, fan appreciation is our humble gift
to Madonna.
To wit, using reader submissions and personal surveys, in
what will hopefully become an annual event, I’ve compiled
a list of Forty-Seven Random Things We Love About Madonna:
1. Throughout the Reinvention Tour, that
incredible, indescribable dancing during Nobody
Knows Me.
2. Facing the Academy Awards audience to sing You
Must Love Me after the acting nomination snub for
Evita.
3. Her early use of tambourines.
4. Speaking out for AmFAR and other AIDS charities before
it was trendy to do so.
5. Recording the lovely Time Stood Still
and letting American Pie get all the Next
Best Thing glory.
6. The endearing way she scratches the back of her head
when giving interviews.
7. Defiantly stating, “I am not ashamed!”
8. The giddy way she spanks that little dog in the Human
Nature video.
9. That notorious “What the f**k do you think you’re
doing” decoy sound file designed to throw off Internet
pirates.
10. Her laugh.
11. The way-cool 1998 David LaChappelle photo shoot.
12. Her stilted-but-funny line readings on Will
& Grace.
13. Having the only memorable lines from Dick Tracy,
even with Al Pacino involved.
14. The enduring drama with DJ Junior Vasquez … and
for (allegedly) uttering that famous answering machine message
immortalized in his “If Madonna Calls.”
15. Setting up an official fan club.
16. Faithfully reprising Holiday during
all of her major concert tours.
17. Doing her best Marie Antoinette for the 1990 VMA’s
legendary Vogue performance.
18. Her shout-out to Michael Moore and his controversial
film “Fahrenheit 9/11” during New York City’s
Re-Invention.
19. Those piercing eyes and alabaster skin that have to
be seen in person to be believed.
20. Her lasting, adult friendship to Rosie O’Donnell,
surviving the wacky early ‘90s into the Mommy Millennium.
21. The high-flying “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”
homage in the Drowned World Tour. Heck,
anything geisha-related!
22. All but launching the David Fincher oeuvre.
23. The casting of Danny Aiello in the Papa Don’t
Preach video.
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