> > Madonna did this just to create a controversy to sell CDs! And it looks like she's at it again: found this on the UPI website when searching to see if JM is indeed retiring:
The New York Post asserted that Madonna will never again be offered a starring role in a film after the disastrous first week of "Swept Away." Bill Hoffman reported that Madonna's handlers claim the Material Girl was sabotaged by the critics. "It's a public hanging by the critics, an assassination," Madonna publicist Liz Rosenberg told Hoffman. "I can't believe the level of rage being directed against her. It's a sad state that these critics are taking such joy in it." In its first weekend, "Swept Away" only netted $375,000 playing in 196 movie theaters around the country. The Post reported that Cinema 7 in New York's East Village sold only five tickets to the first matinee showing of the film and 22 to the second. "God, it was awful," the Post reported a woman who stormed out of the theater as saying. "Unwatchable!" http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021017-123134-7935rhttp://www.upi.com/ view.cfm?StoryID=20021017-123134-7935r
