US performer Madonna tours the Mphandura orphanage near Lilongwe, Malawi, Friday April 5, 2013

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DVD review: Holy Motors

In Léos Carax's genre-hopping wonder, a mystery man (Denis Lavant) is chauffeured around Paris in a stretch limousine for a day, emerging nine times and acting out a different prearranged scenario on each occasion.

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Holy Motors (18)

Denis Lavant's “performer”, while being ferried around Paris in a white stretch limo, adopts 10 different guises –including a withered old lady, a troubled parent, a hoodlum and, most memorably, a one-eyed, barefoot, flower-munching troll/leprechaun.

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Kate Moss's career has inspired designers and consumers alike

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Sir Elton John has reopened his feud with Madonna after branding her a "nightmare" and claiming her career in music is over after her "disaster" tour.

Madonna, Hyde Park, London / Wanda Jackson, Islington Assembly Hall, London

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At 53, Madonna keeps making headlines with her controversial performances

Trending: Madonna proves that shocking is in her DNA

When Madonna flashed her right breast during a concert in Istanbul last week, it was yet another feat of daring to add to her already rich back-catalogue of provocative self-promotion. The megastar, 53, has made headlines in the past for a sharing a kiss with Britney Spears and for seducing a black Jesus in the video for her 1989 song "Like A Prayer". In 1990, she was threatened with arrest by the Canadian authorities for a segment of her Blonde Ambition tour in which she appeared to masturbate on-stage. And in 1994, she published a coffee table book called Sex with the photographer Fabien Barron, which left little to the imagination.

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