Anyone buying Christopher Ciccone's book tomorrow?

[Maddy McCall]

His tell-all on Madonna?

I am!

Here's an excerpt:

In the dining room, Madonna walks in, says 'Welcome to Scotland' and gives me a hug. Guy shakes my hand. The large table is set for ten. Madonna has a seating chart. Scottish food is served and I pick at it halfheartedly. Then I ask for some chicken.

Tonight, and every night afterwards, the guests toast the bridal couple. Tonight one of Guy's friends makes the toast, which culminates in a crack with the subtext: 'WouldnÕt it be funny if Guy were gay?' I don't laugh. It wouldn't
be funny.

Guy's pride in his own heterosexuality swells noticeably when he's in the presence of a gay man like me. And in his wedding week, with these after-dinner toasts seemingly aimed at underscoring his overt masculinity, he is in his element.

I, however, am far from amused when many of the speeches trumpeting Guy's heterosexuality include the word 'poofter', a derogatory British expression for gay.

The next evening, I am seated between Sting and Trudie. At first they talk about the castle and the weather. Then Trudie leans in to me and says: 'Christopher, do I have BO?'

'Huh?'

'Do I have BO? Do I smell?'

'Not that I can tell,' I say, perplexed.

Then she asks: 'Are you into that sort of thing?' Before I can think of an answer, she chips in: 'Mightn't you be?'

'Isn't the smoked salmon delicious?' I say.

Madonna stands up at the top of the table and issues the instruction: 'Christopher, tonight it's your turn to give the toast.'

I lean down the baronial table and, with great emphasis, reply: 'Madonna, you really don't want me to do that.' It's a statement, not a question.

'No, Christopher, it's your turn!' she barks in a tone identical to the one she always used as a kid when she and my siblings all played Monopoly together.

If she didn't get Park Place she invariably stamped her feet and said: 'But it's mine.' In those days, in the face of her strong will, I always capitulated and rescinded my purchase of Park Place.

Nothing seems to have changed. I stand up. My fellow guests fall silent out of respect - the brother of the bride is about to make a speech. I raise my glass: 'I'd like to toast this happy moment that comes only twice in a person's lifetime.'

Then, without skipping a beat, I go on: 'And if anybody wants to **** Guy, he'll be in my room later.'

Everyone erupts in laughter. Everyone, of course, except Madonna, who keeps saying: 'What did he mean?' Guy, who I suspect knows exactly what I mean, says nothing and avoids looking at me.

MORE: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1034635/Madonna-Guy--singers-brother-reveals-intimate-details-life.html

[Danger Mouse]

1. Well...I hate Madonna, and I bet there's all kinda of good stuff about her in it...

but I think it'd just turn my stomach.
Ugh, she is the most pretentious person on the planet. She's composed of pure pretentiousness.

[Maddy McCall]

6. There will be some good stuff in it...

And, love or hate her, she's been around for three decades...incredible staying power...and I suppose it takes a level of ruthlessness and pretentiousness to hold on that long.

I'm interested in knowing more about her childhood. Her brother is supposed to dispel some of her stories about how she arrived in New York and such.

[Blue-Jay]

2. I'm waiting for the Abe Vigoda tell-all book.

[Maddy McCall]

3. I hear Ed Asner's writing it.

:P

[jonnyblitz]

4. i will put it on reserve at the library like i did with the book

Rita Cosby wrote about Anna Nicole where Rita revealed that the two guys who fought over the custody of the baby used to have sex with each other all the time. :crazy:

[Maddy McCall]

5. LOL.

I've been reading some of the back story on Christopher Ciccone. There are always two sides of the story...supposedly, Madonna is frustrated with him because of drug addiction...but that's not his explanation as to why they no longer speak.

:hi:

[jonnyblitz]

7. yeah chris is the gay brother. I just put the book on hold via my

online library account and I am the first in line for the first copy that is available in the multi-library system my town library participates in here in CT!! YAY!!!!11 I do everything online including renewing books. :hug: :hi:

[Maddy McCall]

8. Smartypants!

I'm going to go to WalMart tonight at midnight and get it.

I can snag it for $15 there.

So will you get the book tomorrow morning, then? First in line? Go you!!

:hug: :loveya:

[jonnyblitz]

9. I doubt I will get it tomorrow. there is only 1 copy so far

in a library in another town in the system. not all libraries ship new books off to people from other libraries especially if a patron from THAT library decides they want the book. more libraries will get more copies within days and people will be putting it on hold once they really start pushing it in the media. i am in no hurry to get it, i have plenty to read. books like this i read in one or two sittings in a day if i have the time.:D

I always read kitty kelly books also.

[Maddy McCall]

10. Me, too! Kelly's book on Nancy Reagan....

WOW. :wow:

Especially the affair with Sinatra...of course, she never came right out and said that it was a sexual affair, but c'mon, we know.

:D

[Fleshdancer]

11. No

Instead of making money off of his dysfunctional family, he should have to go into therapy like the rest of us. :P

[Maddy McCall]

12. This is true!

He claims that his sister owes him $65K, though, and this is one reason he wrote the book.

:D

[Fleshdancer]

13. well that kinda changes things

If my sibling owed me 65K (and was famous) I might do the same thing. This is why you don't loan money to family.

[Maddy McCall]

14. She sent him to Southeby's to by a pair of paintings. $65K.

She saw a pair of paintings in a Southeby's catalog that she wanted so she sent him to get them. He had paid out of pocket for stuff for her before, so he bought the paintings at auction for her expecting her to pay him back, as she always had.

When he brought them to her, she said she didn't want him and refused to reimburse him.

For two years, he had to rely on assistance from friends, because he spent his savings on the paintings for his sister.

Really crappy of her, IF the story is true.

[Skittles]

15. I can't stand Madonna

but I feel sorry for her having such a gold-digging rat of a brother :thumbsdown:

[Maddy McCall]

17. There's good stuff in there about other people, too...

like Trudie...lol.

:D

[Skittles]

18. sorry Maddy

I can't stomach her or her brother enough to waste my money

[applegrove]

16. All sounds kinda crass.

[Texasgal]

19. oooooh! I am dying to get my hands on it!

Although, I won't be able to go tonight or tomorrow. :(

I just got done with Barbara Walters " Audition "... very juicy as well!

[Maddy McCall]

20. I was wrong about the date....it comes out TUESDAY.

But I'm buying it at midnight tomorrow night...yes, at Walmart.

:D