[3149] in Humor
HUMOR: Lost (?) in the Translation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
Fri Mar 24 16:16:04 2000
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:13:36 -0500
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From: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:56:39 -0800 (PST)
>From: Raelani Azada <raelani@wahine.net>
>Subject: [DNET] Think twice before giving an interview to a Hungarian
magazine
>
>The following are excerpts from an interview with Madonna conducted by the
>Hungarian magazine 'Blikk.'
>
>The questions to Madonna were asked in Hungarian and then translated into
>English. Madonna's responses were then translated into Hungarian. The
>interview was then published in Hungarian and, finally, translated back
>into English. 'Time' magazine states, "to say that something was lost in
>the process is to be wildly ungrateful for all that was gained."
>
>BLIKK: Madonna, Budapest says hello with arms that are spread-eagled. Did
>you have a visit here that was agreeable? Are you in good odor? You are
>the biggest fan of our young people who hear your musical productions and
>like to move their bodies in response.
>
>MADONNA: Thank you for saying these compliments (holds up hands). Please
>stop with taking sensationalist photographs until I have removed my
>garments for all to see. (laughs). This is a joke I have made.
>
>BLIKK: Madonna, let's cut to toward the hunt. Are you a bold hussy-woman
>that feasts on men who are tops?
>
>MADONNA: Yes, yes, this is certainly something that brings to the surface
>my longings. In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a
>woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails
>present. And there is a more normal attitude toward leather play-toys that
>also makes my day.
>
>BLIKK: Is this how you met Carlos, your love servant who is reputed? Did
>you know he was heaven-sent right off the stick? Or were you dating many
>other people in your bed at the same time?
>
>MADONNA: No, he was the only one I was dating in my bed then, so it is a
>scientific fact that the baby was made in my womb using him. But as
>regards those questions, enough! I am a woman and not a test-mouse! Carlos
>is an everyday person who is in the orbit of a star who is being
>muscle-trained by him not a sex machine.
>
>BLIKK: May we talk about your other "baby," your movie, then? Please do
>not be denying that the similarities between you and the real Evita are
>grounded in basis. Power, money, tasty food, Grammys - all these elements
>are afoot.
>
>MADONNA: What is up in the air with you? Evita never was winning a Grammy!
>
>BLIKK: Perhaps not. But as to your film, in trying to bring your
>reputation along a rocky road, can you make people forget the bad
>explosions of "Who's That Girl?" and "Shanghai Surprise?"
>
>MADONNA: I am a tip-top starlet. That is the job that I am paid to do.
>
>BLIKK: O.K. Here's a question from left space. What was your book, "Slut"
>about?
>
>MADONNA: It was called "Sex," my book.
>
>BLIKK: Not in Hungary. Here it was called "Slut." How did it come to
>publish? Were you lovemaking with an about-town printer? Do you prefer
>making suggestive literature to fast-selling CDs?
>
>MADONNA: These are different facets to my career highway. I am preferring
>only to become respected all over the map as a 100% artist.
>
>BLIKK: There is much interest in you from this geographical region, so I
>must ask this final questions. How many Hungarian men have you dated in
>bed? Are they No.1? How are they comparing to Argentine men, who are
>famous for being tip-top as well?
>
>MADONNA: Well, to avoid aggravating global tension, I won't say. It's a
>tie. (laughs) No, no, I am serious now. See here I am working like a
>canine all the way around the clock! I am too busy even to try the goulash
>the makes your country for the record books.
>
>BLIKK: Thank you for your candid chit-chat.
>
>MADONNA: No problem, friend who is a girl.
>
>
>
>Rev. Raelani Azada | "Republicans understand the
>Santa Cruz, California, USA | importance of bondage between
>http://www.wahine.net/raelani | a mother and child."
>ICQ: 16513894 AOL IM: RaelaniSM | -- Prez candidate Dan Quayle
>
>
>
>
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