FOX NEWS/Roger Friedman
Today is the last day you will be able to see Madonna in Swept Away at a
theater. So run, don’t walk, because in the future you will be relegated to
watching it on your DVD player.
At midnight, Sony’s Screen Gems division will pull the plug and remove one of
the biggest turkeys in history from its remaining screens after two highly
embarrassing weeks.
Not many theaters are involved, since Swept Away was only showing once a day in
many locations since last Friday � and that was to empty houses.
The Guy Ritchie-directed disaster is the absolute worst in a series of movies
starring Madonna that have ranged from mediocre to mortifying. The movie is
more than likely a $40 million write-off for its producer, Matthew Vaughn, who
also happens to the husband of supermodel Claudia Schiffer. Vaughn is also the
purported son of actor Robert Vaughn.
(He was born, by the way, the same year Carole King’s Tapestry album broke
chart records, so what do you expect? I have sneakers older than that.)
Still, the bad reviews and lack of audience have not stopped Madonna from
plotting her next movie. Reports are that she’s writing her own
autobiographical comedy. Oy vey! Madonna, please, please, please � cease and
desist.