If Madonna's so inventive, why can't she invent someone interesting?

From: The Boston Globe | Date: March 29, 1991| Author: Kevin Kelly, Globe Staff | Copyright information

Madonna, in Vanity Fair, worries that she may discover -- after all the bare and shine -- she's really mediocre. To lay aside this anxiety and get to the truth, all she has to do is watch a rerun of her performance this week at the Oscars. She may discover she's not mediocre at all but, simply, untalented, despite her push and shove. She can't sing, can't dance, can't act, and her lacquered beauty doesn't exist behind the gloss. If part of her fame -- aside from her megalomania -- is her con...

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