"The Next Best Thing" (2000)

Watching Madonna watch herself act and she finds herself charming.

My God, all these years later and. all he does is whine about his failed career. He's got to be the whiniest man in Hollywood (or I should say, formerly in Hollywood).

I think it ended Madonna and Rupert Everett’s friendship as well.

It also ended my life.

It ended my appetite the day I half watched it.

It was bad. Real bad. Just a weird premise and Madonna can’t act.

Madonna never made a single decent movie. Well, A League of Their Own, but only because she was a supporting cast member and playing herself as always. She has a very dry abrasive personality. She can't act.

Desperately Seeking Susan, Evita.

I walked out of Evita. What I saw was atrocious and risible.

Hated Evita. It was like a long MTV video. And with Desperately Seeking Susan, she was part of an ensemble and didn’t have the power to stink it up with her meddling.

"Shortly after completing his final film, The Next Best Thing, director John Schlesinger suffered a heart attack and underwent quadruple bypass surgery. During his recovery, he fired off a series of memos to studio exec Sherry Lansing, blaming his condition on his leading lady, Madonna, and her attempts to influence everything from musical score to the final cut. She demanded scenes be cut or rewritten and requested that computery imagery be used to beautify her in numerous scenes, which would've driven up the budget. He was even more incensed that star Rupert Everett and producer Tom Rosenberg were siding with her and giving in to her demands. Poor Schlesinger had a stroke around 2000 and was taken off life support in 2003"

I was about to say Schlesinger deserved better after a career making some great movies. Why would they not trust the director who gave such great movies as Day of the Locust, Midnight Cowboy and Sunday Bloody Sunday…

Stuff like R11 is why I have no sympathy for Rupert's career imploding. He had major opportunities after his breakout role in My Best Friend's Wedding and chose to piss it all away by being Madonna's bestie, too stupid to realize that Madonna's goes through friends like most women go through tampons. He even had a big champion in Julia Roberts. That also got shot to shit after Madonna acted like a bitch to Julia on the red carpet of the movies premiere and Rupert defended her behavior to Julia. Idiot.

As for Madonna, she blamed Schlesinger for not being able to act in this movie. She claimed he upset her by trying to give her line readings to improve her performance and she would run in her trailer with Rupert in tow and not come out until the Schlesinger apologized to everyone.

What a cunt.