Night, Night! Bedtime Stories by Gracie Roberts

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Luau Waitress Jonathan Loughran Party Guest Robert Harvey Nottingham Pool Waiter Jon Schueler Lady at Fountain Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Pedestrian uncredited Nahid Azami Protesting Mom uncredited Leann Bankowski Little Person Alien uncredited Veronica Bennett Greek Goddess uncredited Pete Brown Claudius Falisimus uncredited Amanda Burrill Jogger uncredited Gina Cantrell Student uncredited Nick Hermz Paparazzi uncredited Rodrick Hersh Rabbi uncredited Austin Honaker A Spaceball uncredited Mark Hunter Daft Alien uncredited Dani Jacoby Western Girl uncredited Danni Katz Party Girl uncredited Alina Kaufman Party Guest uncredited Waymond Lee Dancer uncredited John Radcliff Kendall's Assistant uncredited Louis Riviere Roman Peasant uncredited Nicole Sciacca Damn Yankees Girl uncredited Arne Starr Elephant uncredited Alex Tyler Showgirl uncredited Kevin Vyce Businessman 1 uncredited Brian Waller Record Producer uncredited Shawna Wesley Cox as Robert Hallowell Camille Henderson Napa as Dean Backer Jim Bandsuh Napa as Michael Helbig Darryl Henley Napa Bill 'Kauhane' Hoyt Napa uncredited Daren Dochterman SFX costume designer Gene Heeter Tippett Studio Scott M.

Tippett Studio Axel Akesson Tippett Studio Adrienne Anderson Tippett Studio Chris Antonini Tippett Studio Jarrod Avalos Tippett Studio Scott Balkcom Cinesite John Andrew Berton Jr. Cinesite as Rick Boyle Hans Brekke Tippett Studio John Brennick Hydraulx as Kevin Browne Erik Bruhwiler Tippett Studio Trent Claus Hydraulx as Andrew Collins Emanuele Comotti Cinesite as Graham Curtis Sam Cuttriss Cinesite as Clare Downie Brennan Doyle Tippett Studio Catherine Duncan Tippett Studio Dustin Edwards May 04, Lisa rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Recommended to Lisa by: The author was the keynote speaker at a ladies breakfast I went.

I loved reading this at bedtime. I want to get the other bedtime book by Jennie, now. She is such a genuine storyteller! Jen rated it really liked it Aug 09, Kathy rated it it was amazing Oct 29, Laura Erickson rated it really liked it Aug 16, Lindsay marked it as to-read Jun 18, Dottie added it Jul 26, Natalie Clapper marked it as to-read Aug 31, Marilyn Tamarez added it Jun 04, Cristi Honea marked it as to-read Aug 18, Linda Croel marked it as to-read Feb 28, BookDB marked it as to-read Sep 13, Jenna marked it as to-read May 18, Regarding the controversial period of her career, Madonna said, "I feel I've been misunderstood.

I tried to make a statement about feeling good about yourself and exploring your sexuality, but people took it to mean that everyone should go out and have sex with everyone, and that I was going to be the leader of that. So I decided to leave it alone because that's what everyone ended up concentrating on.

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Sex is such a taboo subject and it's such a distraction that I'd rather not even offer it up. She also commented that it was because she was not interested in giving many interviews and being on the cover of magazines. It's very, very romantic".


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I've been in a reflective state of mind. I've done lot of soul searching and I just felt in a romantic mood when I was writing for [the album] so that's what I wrote about I decided that I wanted to work with a whole bunch of different producers. And I also wanted to work with Massive Attack. So obviously, he was on the list.

Nellee was the last person I worked with, and it wasn't until then that I got a grip of what the sound of the whole record was, so I had to go back and redo a lot. Madonna's initial work on the album had started with Shep Pettibone , who produced her fifth studio album, Erotica However, she found out that they were doing the same vein of music from the previous album, which did not please her. They would collaborate on three songs for the album in his studio in Beverly Hills , with "Forbidden Love" and " Take a Bow " ending up on the album.

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Recalling the latter's development, the producer commented, "I wasn't so much thinking about the charts. I think I was more in awe of the fact that I was working with Madonna. It was initially surreal, but then you get to know the person a little bit, and you calm down and then it's just work. And work is fun". He also said that for "Forbidden Love", "She heard the basic track and it all started coming out, melodies and everything It was a much easier process than I thought it would be". She commented, "The minute you walked in [the studio], she was giving you the lyric sheet.

That was the atmosphere—we're not here to just hang out. It's fun, but we're here to work and get this done". De Lory recalls the sessions for "Survival" took a "couple of hours" and there were no retakes.

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According to the singer, "She wanted to know, 'Who is this? How did this happen?


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Aside from this, however, Madonna also wanted to explore the British club musical scene, where genres such as dub had been growing in popularity. In a way the album is really a book of stories you can tell your kids at bedtime [ In the song, Madonna enhanced the rhythmic sounds more and compressed the bass sounds, in order to cater to the then musical trend.

Towards the end, an upper harmonic melody is added to display variance. Throughout the song, Madonna also sings the lyrics "My baby's got a secret", however she never discloses what the secret may be. Towards the middle of the song, an eight bar rap break is taken by singer and rapper Meshell Ndegeocello , who raps: Madonna interrupts, with her voice foregrounded and juxtaposed over the short interjections of Ndegeocello's rap part.

The album's fourth track, "Don't Stop", is characterized by a pulsating bass overlaid with strings punctuating and accompanying the riffs in sustained and glissandi gestures. The rhetoric of the track is displayed by Madonna's commands: Together with "Survival", the song became a vehicle for Madonna to lyrically vent off her frustrations regarding the controversies surrounding her. Composed in a minor key with whispering voices in the background one of them being of Babyface's , the song features a string section in the middle eight. The instrumentation is kept at minimum to emphasize the vocals, and the song ends with fading out.

The song projects a sombre and melancholy mood with Madonna lyrically asserting that she is "drawn to sadness" and "loneliness has never been a stranger" on the song.

The title plays upon the verse in the song "all the world is a stage and everyone has their part", a reference to the line by William Shakespeare in his play As You Like It , " All the world's a stage , and all the men and women mere players". Smith from The Daily Vault website stated that the artwork was "colorful" and was seen by him as one of the high points of the release.

Madonna looks both older and younger than she does in the photos and the videos: Her manner is quite teenaged, not femme fatale. She seems up for mischief, and yet quite conscious of her power. At the same time, her very frankness is almost innocent. These combinations are odd, and they give her the air of a prematurely wise child. Her current style is s Hollywood meets early s flash: Jean Harlow and Angie Bowie. She is not bewitching, but is certainly beautiful.

She wears the nose stud that so troubled Norman Mailer in a recent interview. If you saw her in the street, you'd think: To promote the album's release, Madonna talked about the album in an audio message available exclusively online prior to its release. I'm going to be a good girl, I swear. At the end of the performance, she thanked the audience in Italian language , and received standing ovation.


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Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera mentioned that Madonna would play in Italy as part of a world tour to promote Bedtime Stories in spring or fall I love touring, and I very much want to go out with this album. But I can't—I'd be going straight from months on the road right into filming; I'd be exhausted and strained.

It wouldn't be in the best interests of the movie for me to be at any less than my peak of energy".

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The song achieved success on record charts, peaking inside the top five in most countries, while reaching number three on the US Billboard Hot This string was broken by " Take a Bow ", the second single which peaked at number 16 in the nation. On the Hot chart, the song peaked at number 42, becoming the first Madonna single since " Burning Up " not to reach the top Nonetheless, the song's "loss" of radio airplay and sales prevented it from peaking within the US top Like the previous single, it failed to reach the top 40 in the US, peaking at number Bedtime Stories received generally positive reviews from music critics.

Randy Taraborrelli, author of Madonna: An Intimate Biography , praised the album for being "considerably more tame in tone and image than [ Erotica ' s] ethereal sounding, sexually explicit" content. The New York Times writer Stephen Holden considered Bedtime Stories as "easily Madonna's best album", and concluded that it was a "seductive mixture of soft-focus hip-hop and bittersweet ballads".

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Considine , while writing his review for the album for The Baltimore Sun , declared that Bedtime Stories was more listener-friendly than Madonna's previous albums. He added that it "seems remarkably close in spirit to the singer's first album, emphasizing dance grooves and pop melodies over genre exercises and conceptual statements", while praising Madonna's vocal performance. Labin from the Bangor Daily News , noted that "[Madonna] isn't taking any chances. This time around, her daring has more to do with music than lyrics", while also praising her vocals; "If anything, her singing is the album's greatest strength.