Post by Bebe Reptar on Oct 28, 2004 21:25:13 GMT -5
Madonna may have found spiritual enlightenment through Kabbalah, but she hasn't given up the ghost when it comes to potty-mouthed outbursts. The Daily Mail reports that while addressing a star-studded crowd at a London bash last week to honor Rabbi Michael Berg's Kabbalah-crammed tome "Becoming Like God," the erstwhile Esther scolded, "Turn those [bleeping] mobile phones off!"
The $75,000 fete was officially hosted by Demi Moore, but Madonna reportedly organized the event, which drew her pal Gwyneth Paltrow and designers Donatella Versace and Valentino. Demi's younger half, Ashton Kutcher, was a no-show, although he still seems committed to the cause. The Insider reports Dashmi may pose together wearing nothing but sewn-together red string bracelets for a billboard promoting the religion's "Red String Book."
The menu, says the London Mirror, included imported "specially blessed Kabbalah water" and macrobiotic canapés such as tuna wasabi. Like any good religious gathering, there was also a well-stocked open bar.
In an interview during the event, Madonna told the Times of London that she became involved in the religion nearly a decade ago, when her personal and professional lives were at their peak.
"I was what you would call at the top of my world," she explained. "I'd won a Golden Globe for 'Evita,' I was pregnant, I had fame, I had fortune, everything that you would perceive a person would want in life. But I’m sure everyone’s had that out-of-body experience where you say to yourself -- and it might happen at 28 or 38 or 68 -- why am I here? Why am I inside of this body? What am I doing? And I was hearing that question a lot."
Kabbalah, says Madonna, "teaches you ... that your true potential in the world has nothing to do with selling records or making money or being popular, it has to do with what you are doing to help. What are you doing to make the world a better place?"
The $75,000 fete was officially hosted by Demi Moore, but Madonna reportedly organized the event, which drew her pal Gwyneth Paltrow and designers Donatella Versace and Valentino. Demi's younger half, Ashton Kutcher, was a no-show, although he still seems committed to the cause. The Insider reports Dashmi may pose together wearing nothing but sewn-together red string bracelets for a billboard promoting the religion's "Red String Book."
The menu, says the London Mirror, included imported "specially blessed Kabbalah water" and macrobiotic canapés such as tuna wasabi. Like any good religious gathering, there was also a well-stocked open bar.
In an interview during the event, Madonna told the Times of London that she became involved in the religion nearly a decade ago, when her personal and professional lives were at their peak.
"I was what you would call at the top of my world," she explained. "I'd won a Golden Globe for 'Evita,' I was pregnant, I had fame, I had fortune, everything that you would perceive a person would want in life. But I’m sure everyone’s had that out-of-body experience where you say to yourself -- and it might happen at 28 or 38 or 68 -- why am I here? Why am I inside of this body? What am I doing? And I was hearing that question a lot."
Kabbalah, says Madonna, "teaches you ... that your true potential in the world has nothing to do with selling records or making money or being popular, it has to do with what you are doing to help. What are you doing to make the world a better place?"