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GOT IT: "I feel like style is something you have or you don't," B. Akerlund says.

A Cinedigm Entertainment release of an Action 3D and AEG Network Live production.

Gogol Bordello is like a mini-United Nations, except that its members actually get along and really accomplish something - like creating a manic gypsy punk rhythm that sounds like an Old World cousin of ska, with a bit of flamenco, Brecht-ian cabaret, Italian spaghetti drama, and dub thrown in for good measure.

Originally printed 11/12/2009 Madonna makes another movie. Guy assists. Madonna is going to direct again.

London 'Queen of Pop' Madonna is set to return to direction with none other than ex-husband Guy Ritchie playing mentor.

This piece in London's Daily Mail about Madonna planning an upcoming directorial project is so British, full of so much slang and insider references to royalty, that I pretty much don't even know how to read it.

Gogol Bordello is scheduled to play on Tuesday, October 20. Gogol Bordello Amidst the mind-numbing barrage of identical-sounding modern rock and pop starlets, it's nice to come across something different every now and then.

True, this was her first stab at directing a feature, but Madonna has been developing her directing acumen since the Eighties.

Going to a Gogol Bordello show is kind of like taking a wrong turn down one of Istanbula TMs maze of backstreets and accidentally stumbling across a gypsy wedding.

Caption: David Letterman accompanies Madonna outside Ed Sullivan Theatre after she taped a segment for the 'Late Show With David Letterman.' Letterman and Madonna popped next door for pizza, to the excitement of fans, where they continued their interview with a camera crew New York City, USA .... MADONNA EYES MORE MOVIES MADONNA is devoting herself ...

MONSTERS VS ALIENS 3 stars $29.99. 94 mins. A meteorite transforms a bubbly bride-to-be into Ginormica, a 50-foot-tall woman who, with a group of misfit monsters, saves the world from an evil alien.

"The problem with treating your body like a cash register is that you always feel empty." - A.K. Madonna is a woman who has enough business savvy to build a music empire.

IT'S HARD TO overestimate the impact Madonna has had on pop culture. During the 1980s, she wasn't just another pop star; instead, she became a supercelebrity and progenitor of tabloid culture.

' Monsters vs. Aliens' is among the DVDs hitting store shelves this week. Monsters vs.

"Gogol Bordello Non-Stop," a new documentary about the transcendently manic gypsy punk band, might just be the only thing more low-rent and dingy than they are - which is, for the most part, a good thing.

STOP is a lo-fi, high-energy documentary about New York City's most notoriously entertaining band, led by frontman Eugene Hutz.

"It is all sexes, all ages, all nationalities," announces Eugene Hutz, the charismatic Ukrainian-born founder and frontman of the Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, in Margarita Jimeno's choppy, high-energy documentary of the band's rise from a cult phenomenon to international acclaim.

A whirling dervish of rafter-swinging rebellion, gypsy-punk rockers Gogol Bordello are notorious for their uninhibited, highly theatrical live shows.

Superstar entertainer and noted Anglophile Madonna plans to follow the release of her forthcoming career retrospective album Celebration with a return to filmmaking.

Madonna is lining up her next movie project - the pop superstar is planning to direct a musical about socialite Wallis Simpson with Cate Blanchett in the title role.