Madonna struts for Rain Forests
by Anne Ayers
USA Today
New York - It was supposed to be a night to save the rain forests, but it belonged to Madonna. Co-host of the Don't Bungle
the Jungle benefit at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, Madonna did little speechifying, but stole the show with
Sandra Bernhard in a grand-finale duet of I Got You Babe.
Complete with crotch-grabbing and the bump, the pair, dressed in matching sequined bras and knee-length cutoffs decorated
with graffiti, gave the crowd of 2,000 what it had been asking for all night.
Madonna quickly ran through the statistics detailing the devastation of the world's rain forests. Bernhard asked her, "Who
do you think you are, Tracy Chapman?" Replied Madonna, "No, I'm not working at a convenience store," eliciting hoots and gasps
from the star-studded audience.
At one point during their number, as the two wrapped their arms around each other, Madonna told the crowd, "Don't believe
those stories." Leering back, Berhard rejoined, "Believe those stories!"
A journal entry from Andy Warhol at a party in early 80's that Madonna attended -
"Everybody had champagne, but nobody really drank it. Madonna arrived and she said she was so relieved her husband Sean
wasn't with her so she could really have fun. And she felt uncomfortable without her shoes because she didn't have socks -
she said she'd feel more comfortable with her top off than her shoes off."
Remember Earth Girls are Easy? Madonna was considered for the main role that Geena Davis played!
"The script came from Warner Brothers, who wanted Madonna to play the lead role. 'I don't think Madonna was wanting to
do it. We certainly didn't want Madonna to do it.' (Early in the movie, a copy of Madonna's 'Who's that Girl' gets tossed
into the fireplace: point made.)
The project, minus Madonna, was sold to DEG and filmed in the summer and fall of 1987, with Geena Davis in the lead role
as the airhead manicurist. DEG then went bankrupt, which delayed the film's release until this year (1989)."
