The Celebrity Gossip Revival: A-Rod + Madonna = Relief

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The Celebrity Gossip Revival: A-Rod + Madonna = Relief

Posted Jul 12th 2008 8:25PM by Ben Greenman

For a while there, it seemed like there was celebrity gossip every moment of every day. Mel Gibson went nuts, Tom Cruise went nuts, Britney Spears went triple nuts. Then, after this winter, there was a lull. Eliot Spitzer got pinched for patronizing prostitutes, and David Paterson was funny, for a little while, but then what? Luckily, the last week has saved us from the prospect of a country without highly public idiocy. Thank Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook, but most of all thank A-Rod and Madonna. Here is my tribute to them, "Fragments from A-Rod! The Musical," at newyorker.com. A sample is below, but check out the whole thing:

MADONNA:
Remember when I dressed up
As Marilyn Monroe?
If you play your cards right
You can be DiMaggio
You know that heady feeling
When you hit a shot into the gap?
You can tell me all about it
When I shift and settle on your lap

A-ROD:
I get it
You're Madonna
You enjoy
Double entendre

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1. WHO CARES!!!WHO CARES!!!WHO CARES!!!WHO CARES!!!!!!!

Kit at 10:25AM on Jul 16th 2008

2. aw, ben...

your blogs used to be my favorite, the witty, off the wall news stories followed by a horrible pun.

i loved it.

what happened?

hannah at 2:33PM on Jul 16th 2008

3. Why do they call her Madge???

I don't get this.

anyone?

TJ at 2:16PM on Jul 31st 2008

4. Mel Gibson never went nuts it was the pro-israeli hollywood that tried to paint as nuts like you did Greenman. Elliot Spitzer was the nutjob that we trusted when he said support Israel "trust me" and why? Was he a muslim? NOPE! Was Mcgreeveys male gay lover an American? Nope an Israeli citzen on NJ tax payroll, he was.
DID YOU KNOW: COLIN POWEL WAS TAUGHT TO SPEAK ISRAELI WHEN HE WAS YOUNG?
DID YOU KNOW: Lieberman IS A CITZEN OF ISRAEL
DID YOU KNOW: IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG IS FACT AND NOT FOX NEWS PROPAGANDA

Israeli Occupation Survivor at 4:01PM on Aug 6th 2008

5.
Ben,
Where'd you go ??

mac at 8:43PM on Aug 13th 2008

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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.