Here's 'unseen footage' from Madonna's Truth Or Dare/In Bed With Madonna. At such lo res, Madonna looks like a cross between Gwen Stefani and Anna Nicole Smith. The timecode gives the video the feel of CCTV and all those reality surveillance shows on TV these days. The telephone conversation with Warren Beatty is more interesting than the scene used in the film where he's actually in the hotel room and doesn't like being shot by the camera. He doesn't want to be the object of surveillance. T or D anticipates the Truman Show and all the Big-Brother-Is-You Watching stuff that is now normal fare on our screens. I think it's authoritarian populism. People are supposed to perform in front of camera, become the kind of subjects that lifestyle, entertainment and celebrity culture script for them.
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