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Here's some possibly disappointing news for Madonna watchers. Apparently "A Certain Sacrifice," the movie Madonna starred in five years ago, isn't the porn flick some have assumed it is.
At least that's what director Stephen John Lewicki said of the movie, which makes its videocassette debut on Virgin Video at $59.95 next week, a week later than scheduled.
"There's some nudity in it and Madonna is nude briefly," he said. "It's not even semi-porn. If it's anything it's anti-porn. I think this porn rumor got started because people who haven't seen it heard she has three sex slaves (in the movie). That excited their imaginations and they've been assuming all sorts of things about it."
Long before she became a pop idol, Madonna, a struggling actress/singer/dancer, starred in this movie and worked as a nude model. All that is coming back to haunt her. Playboy and Penthouse magazines printed some nude photos recently. Then this movie surfaced. A legal effort to keep her name from being used in conjunction with the film ultimately failed failed.
The film was shot mostly in 1980 but Lewicki worked on it off and on until last year. Its original cost was $20,000 but Lewicki says he has done $60,000 worth of polishing.
Lewicki is currently negotiating a soundtrack deal. But don't get your hopes up. Madonna does some dancing in this movie but no singing. Without a Madonna vocal performance, Lewicki may have a tough time getting a record deal. "A Certain Sacrifice" has not been released theatrically in this country but Lewicki hopes to change that. It was, however, released in Italian theaters.
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