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Madonna's Documentary Screened In 'Familiar' Place

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: August 3, 2008

She might be known worldwide as the Material Girl, but there's more than a little of the small-town Michigan girl left in Madonna.

The pop superstar arrived in the northern Michigan resort town of Traverse City on Saturday to introduce her documentary, "I Am Because We Are," a highlight of the Traverse City Film Festival. The event was co-founded by filmmaker, author and fellow Michigan native Michael Moore.

Hundreds of fans cheered from behind barricades as Madonna stepped out of a black sport utility vehicle that pulled up in front of the State Theatre. She hugged a waiting Moore and posed for photos with him.

Madonna and Moore shared the stage before a screening of the movie, which deals with the orphans of Malawi, the African nation where she and husband Guy Ritchie adopted a son.

"It's great bringing my movie to a place that I feel familiar," Madonna told the audience. "Not like the Cannes Film Festival, where nobody's speaking English, or the Tribeca Film Festival, where no one sits down.

"There's something poetic about coming back to the place where I used to come for holidays - camping trips with my dad and stepmother and my very large family," said the 49-year-old singer, born to the southeast in Bay City and raised in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills.

Madonna was accompanied by her 11-year-old daughter, Lourdes, and the film's director, Nathan Rissman.

Today's Birthdays

Singer Tony Bennett is 82. Actor Martin Sheen is 68. Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart is 67. Singer Beverly Lee (The Shirelles) is 67. Country musician Randy Scruggs is 55. Rock singer James Hetfield (Metallica) is 45. Actor Isaiah Washington is 45. Actress Brigid Brannagh is 36. Actress Evangeline Lilly is 29.

Source: The Associated Press

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