‘She’s a nice lady … but …’
Madge versus Gaga, Round 2: Madonna once accused Lady Gaga of ripping off a song, saying Born This Way was too similar to Madge’s Express Yourself.
The beef was a nine-day wonder. But now the Gagster has revived the feud, in a radio interview with one Zane Lowe. Billboard quotes her this way:
“Madonna and I are very different. … I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna; she’s a nice lady and she’s had a fantastic, huge career … but I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I’m a producer. I’m a writer.”
No response from Madonna. Yet.
She’s 58. Gaga is 30. Oasis turned down a chance to be on the soundtrack for the 1996 hit movie Trainspotting — because bandleader Noel Gallagher thought the movie was about actual trainspotting.
The Telegraph, in England, quotes producer Andrew Macdonald saying director Danny Boyle “was very keen to have Noel Gallagher do something” on the soundtrack, which features numerous rock acts of the day and became a bestselling album.
Costume designer Rachael Fleming added this: “I met Noel at a thing the other week and he said to me: ‘I would have done something, but honestly I thought it was about trainspotters. I didn’t know.’ That’s what he actually said.”
The sequel, about the same Glasgow druggies 20 years later, is due out in January. Your family has a chance to buy its dream home, cheap. But there’s a catch: You must share it with an old lady until she dies. And the old lady is Carol Burnett.
That’s the premise — zany friends, wacky adventures — that’s bringing Burnett back to sitcom TV, Deadline.com reports. ABC has ordered a pilot, with Amy Poehler executive-producing. There’s no indication that Poehler will also star. The Carol Burnett Show was Emmy-nominated in each of its 11 seasons (1967-78) and won three times.
She’s 83. Hilary Swank knows all about Hollywood’s gender pay gap. Appearing on Chelsea Handler’s Netflix talk show, Swank revealed how little she earned for the 1999 drama Boys Don’t Cry, in a role for which she won a best-actress Oscar:
“I was 24 years old. I made $3,000,” she said. “In order to have health insurance, you have to make $5,000, so I didn’t even know that I didn’t have health insurance until I went and tried to get a prescription filled ...” They said, ‘That’s $160.’ … I had an Academy Award … no health insurance.”