French Shih Tzu Featured In Madonna’s New Documentary

Despite bombing with her previous film ‘Swept Away’, Madonna is apparently making a new movie, a documentary featuring a French Shih Tzu. A Paris boulevardier told the Telegraph of London: “My friend was walking along with her little Shih Tzu, Ulysse, when she was stopped by a woman who said, ‘You’re going to think I’m mad, but your dog is exactly the one that Madonna wants for her new documentary.’ That weekend two members of Madonna’s band took Ulysse on a filmed tour of Paris, but they wouldn’t let on about the film, except that it’s due to premiere at Cannes next year.”

Violence On Madonna’s Peace Trip

September 22, 2004 – A photographer involved in the scuffle with Madonna’s bodyguards in Tel Aviv, Israeli on Saturday phoned The Sun to tell his side of the story, in which two of the Material Girl’s security team were arrested. “Madonna went to the cafe near her hotel with Guy to watch the sunset,” the snapper explained. “After an hour or so she got up to leave and saw a crowd gathering outside. Her bodyguards asked people to move back but they refused. The guards began pushing them and it started to get violent. Two guards started fighting with a photographer. They fell to the floor and the guards started kicking, punching and biting a guy who was trying to protect him. The police rushed in and a special forces officer got hit in the face by one of the guards.”

Madonna Calls Israel Trip ‘A Smashing Success’

September 22, 2004 – Madonna tells The New York Daily News she’s happy she made her Kabbalah pilgrimage to Israel. Despite being dogged night and day by the media, she said in an e-mail, “I felt very safe and very welcome….From my perspective, [the trip] was a smashing success.”

Celebs Spread Their Faith

September 22, 2004 – Conan O’Brien joked during his Late Night monologue on Tuesday night, “Over the weekend, Madonna was in Israel, spreading the word about Kabbalah, and Tom Cruise was in Spain, spreading the word about Scientology. It’s true. Yeah, not only that, Christina Aguilera was in Miami, spreading a rash.”

Madonna’s Tears Over Israeli Paparazzi

September 21, 2004 – The New York Daily News reports that on Sunday, after the media caught wind of Madonna’s midnight visit to the tomb of Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, she was forced to scratch her trip to the Western Wall. “Madge was in tears,” an insider revealed. “She was devastated.”