The movie is ghastly. The lighting is criminal. Her accent is ridiculous. It's a mess, not even a hot one!

Hey, what a good surprise! I did enjoy to see the dynamic and the fun that you got to speak about music and the clubs, and all that... Witch it's was really cool to hearded you. I will shourly will stay in touch and listen you play and sing. Nancy Thank you very much 😊❤

still available to buy the dvd in the UK on Amazon

Dying laughing at the Ritz Cracker rumors!!!!!!!

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Madonna has enough unreleased songs that era to add to this soundtrack. Imagine this soundtrack with Side A, full of Madonna songs. "Like a Flower", "Liquid Love", "Like an angel passing through", " La Petie Jeunne Fils", "Run", "Be Careful"

Not to be that guy but Madonna Rising was for Ray of Light lol

Charlie Rose interviewed John Schlesinger & Rupert Everett about making The Next Best Thing with Madonna on March 02 2000 AND Ryan Murphy discussed ‘The Next Best Thing’ on the Podcast ‘And That’s What You REALLY Missed’ Episode Just Like A Prayer Published on March 02 2023…. Both interviews (included below) conflict with some of Tony’s claims about Madonna… TRANSCRIPT OF CHARLIE ROSE INTERVIEW WITH RUPERT: Charlie Rose: You and Madonna are friends, right ? Rupert Everett: Yes, we are great friends. Charlie Rose: You’ve known each other for a while ? Rupert Everett: Long time. Charlie Rose: Now, did you come to this project together ? Who was on board first? Rupert Everett: I was on board first. Madonna and me had been looking for something to do together and so I took it to her, and then we went to John. John and I had known each other for 25 years. Charlie Rose: And both of you wanted to work with John ? Rupert Everett: Yes Charlie Rose: Because you respected him and thought he would be particularly good for this theme ? Rupert Everett: He’s made three of my very favorite films ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ “Day of the Locust’ and ‘Midnight Cowboy’ Charlie Rose: OK. Didn’t you also try to change the script ? Rupert Everett: Well, Tom Ropelewski wrote the original screenplay. And while we loved the structure of it and the drama and the actual story telling, I wanted to adapt it very much more to ourselves. I like American TV sitcoms very much -where Mary Tyler Moore is called Mary Tyler Moore and she plays Mary in the TV series and you know it’s not her, but it is her. It gives you an added sense of intimacy with the product, which I think is very clever. And I wanted me and Madonna to try and do the same kind of thing….My character, for instance, was [originally] a flubby, well-meaning, asexual, interior decorator whose idea of resolving any problem was to go to the refrigerator, get out some Reddi-Wip and spray it into his “fag hag's” face. Charlie Rose: And how did you see the character? Rupert Everett: I saw him as being more of a normal man. Charlie Rose: Yeah. Rupert Everett: And I didn't want -you know- her character also was a bitter, sexless woman who was kind of just angry. END. TRANSCRIPT OF RYAN MURPHY INTERVIEW: RYAN MURPHY: Well, I had worked with [Madonna] before, which is a great story, which is my beginning of my career was Madonna, really. I had just sold a script to Steven Spielberg called, ‘Why Can't I Be Audrey Hepburn?’ That was the first script I ever wrote, really. RYAN MURPHY (cont.): And he bought it, which, you know, and then I was thrust into this on the cover of the trades and all this stuff. And I would have these amazing weekly tutorials with Steven Spielberg about this is how you write a script and you should be thinking about this. So very bizarre way of introduction to the business. RYAN MURPHY (cont.): And it got a lot of publicity, not because of me, but because of that title. Like it was just a great title. Yeah. RYAN MURPHY (cont.): So the next thing I know, I got a call from this guy at Lakeshore, a lovely guy named Tom Rosenberg. And he said, Hey, I'm doing this producing this movie with Rupert Everett and Madonna. And you used to be a journalist, didn't you? And I said, I was. And he said, but you're now a screenwriter. And I said, I'm trying to. RYAN MURPHY (cont.): And he said, Well, I'm looking for somebody who could interview Madonna about her life and her views and put those feelings into the script. And he said, Well, you do it. And I said, Well, what does that mean? RYAN MURPHY (cont.): And he said, I want you to go to New York for a couple months, once a month, and I want you to sit with the tape recorder and talk to her about her life and then put that into the next draft of the script. So I was like, what? I absolutely couldn't say quick, yes enough and actually would have done it for free. RYAN MURPHY (cont.): And this was Ray of Light Madonna. Yeah, this was like, wow, this was like 1998. It was her world and we're all living in it. RYAN MURPHY (cont.): So I flew to New York and this is a true story that no one ever believes me. And the elevator ride up to meet Madonna for the first time with Tom, he turned to me and said, I forgot to ask you when is your birthday? RYAN MURPHY (cont.): And I said, what? And he said, when is your birthday? And I said, I'm November 9th. And he goes, are you a Scorpio? I said, yeah, and he goes, you can't tell that to her because she won't hire you. And I said, what do you mean? RYAN MURPHY (cont.): He said, I don't know. But just don't say you're a Scorpio. Say you're something else. So lo and behold, I meet her. She's lovely. The last question is when you were born. And I gave her my mother's birthday of September 3rd. She said, oh, a Virgo. Okay. RYAN MURPHY (cont.): By the time we got down to the lobby, it came word that I was hired. So I had this incredible five or six month period where I'd fly to New York. I would be ushered into a beautiful room in her home. I would sit under this amazing Tamra Duden pink up painting and she would come out smelling like patchouli oil with her drowned world hair. And she would sit and I would talk. RYAN MURPHY (cont.): So I had this great experience with her and I cannot say enough good things about Madonna. How nice she was. I never understood the Scorpio thing and maybe it was a joke between them, but it was funny. RYAN MURPHY (cont.): She was so cool and kind and I asked her very first personal questions about her life and her childbirth because that was the point of the show. So I did a draft and Tom loved it. The next thing I know is Rupert Everett read the draft and was like, this is supposed to be a two-hander and I feel the entire thing is now about Madonna's character. RYAN MURPHY (cont.): So I had got to help Tom and Rupert and Madonna work and choose the director, which was John Schlesinger, who directed Midnight Cowboy. So I was like this young punk and I never understood why they were saying, well, who would you hire? I was like John Schlesinger. RYAN MURPHY (cont.): So anyway, I was systematically after that draft fired from that project. And I think some of it that Madonna's yoga teaching stuff made it into the movie, but she was kind and wonderful.

I was pretty entertained by the movie, mostly because of Madonna. She did look amazing. 😊

Aww Liberty, I love Animal Crossing and I’m a gaymer myself

I’ve never understood the hate this film gets from a lot of fans and critics - I think it’s her most watchable film next to who’s that girl and seeking Susan

But aren't you tired of Madonna collaborations? Madonna alone on the "albums" sound 10X better., Albums & videos with WB were really mind blowing

I am totally with you her last few Tours editing is very distractive the Simpler the better Madonna doesn't need that she herself on stage is Magic "Blond Ambition " in Tokyo was a masterpiece and loved the "Confessions too" :)

And that's why I have my physical movie collection 😊

Time Stood Still - one of her absolute best

the movie is available in Prime Video in Mexico.

i found it.streaming now.

This film was responsible for taking me to a gay place for the first time, I was 16 years old. Confuse and bad movie, Madonna looked beautiful and Rupert Everett played himself.

Love you guys, You made my retail "Friday" night in :)

Greatest album❤❤❤

Gosh I love you guys 🤌🏽, my warm Madonna blankets 🙏🏽

I agree with Stefan, a new album with more confessional songs like her "Like a Prayer" album. And I want it produced by Stuart Price or Offer Nissim 🙏🙏🙏

I know some Madonna fans LAP hasn’t charted as much since this movie was released for different reasons, but I’m sorry but that NSync song really is going to tickle the bros and geeks who are obsessed with this franchise. But LAP won’t hurt

I’m so disappointed that we never got a tour program or a book like the one Guy Oseary did for Confessions

M was recently interviewed in Italy. New album is coming she said she is inspired by Bedtime Stories and 00s r n b

Happy 66th yall 🎉

Message was american life single. For secret it was normal lol. Right?

Katy Perry🤮 and she’s awful live.

Liberty’s head is disappearing and appearing. 🐇🎩

That SACHA ULTRA VIOLET REMIX IS 😮 🔥 🔥

No sabía que la Tigresa del Oriente había hecho un homenaje a Madonna

New albums for madonna with max martin please please I wish madonna will make more enjoyable danceable songs semilar as her singles like vogue like a prayer and music Madonna please make new albums please Maybe make an album like a part 2 of like a prayer 1989? Thank you so much 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Love Nadya!!❤

Are you releasing this yet or not… we are all going to be dead by the time you do… don’t do a Madonna and make us wait a decade

wow!!!😮😮😮😮😮 👏👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌🙌

I love David Fincher

She's a treasure ❤

We exist as a person in this world.

The artwork is Keith Haring’s. The Polaroid that pops up in the beginning is her and Keith. He designed her Desperately Seeking Susan leather jacket. She still has it. It’s insane to think about but she literally lost every friend she had within a span of 5 years to AIDS. Her gay advocacy wasn’t manufactured. She lived it. She was in the trenches in the early 80s with her friends.

Hated the movie but this song gave me tingles - I still find it an odd choice to use in a marvel film especially in an action sequence

Hi Tony!! 😘

Liberty: Rhino Records also has the poster, so you should be getting it! store.rhino.com/en/rhino-store/artists/madonna/like-a-prayer-silver-vinyl/081227814496.html

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Oh wow! I got halfway through making that jacket back in the day! And I still fold all my boots down 😅

I saw it last night & they were EXTREMELY complimentary of Madonna in the movie 💯

Madonna's inability to embrace looking back, is why Niki & Donna will probably never sing with her onstage again. Their background vocals always enhanced her and made her shine, and when they left, a lot of the magic in her live shows did, too: there's no denying that. In my opinion, she has been lost ever since: the older she gets, the more desperate she looks.

Everyone wants a new album, but she does not have a album contract at warner.

Is Ben always drunk when he records this podcast? 😂 he always looks confused and sounds drunk. 😅

Still waiting for that Weeknd album collaboration, inspired classic 80's Madonna, even as a soundtrack for her biopic. Wishful thinking?

Deadpool did mention Madonna and like a prayer I think at the end of the movie he said that listening to Madonna while him and Wolverine we’re trying to save the universe is the only reason they survived or something to that. Love the podcast keep up the great work. I’m a super loyal and faithful Madonna fan since 1984 from Kuwait 🇰🇼