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In this May 22, 2008 photo, singer Madonna arrives for the 2008 amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit in Mougins, southern France. Madonna will introduce her documentary “I Am Because We Are” before its screening Saturday night at the Traverse City Film Festival in Traverse City, Mich., founded by her pal Michael Moore. The movie deals with the orphans of Malawi, the African nation where she and husband Guy Ritchie adopted a son. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — 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 this northern Michigan resort town 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, wearing a black dress, high heels and sunglasses, stepped out of a black sport utility vehicle that pulled up in front of the State Theatre. She hugged a waiting Moore, who sported an orange baseball cap, and posed for photos with him.
Madonna and Moore shared the stage at the theater 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. Ritchie was not present.
Moore, who won an Oscar for his 2002 documentary “Bowling for Columbine,” said he was humbled to be able to call Madonna a friend.
“She has such an incredible heart and such a generous spirit,” he said. “She does so much out of the glare of the lights to make the world a better place.”
Madonna had praise of her own for Moore, 54, a Flint-area native who has a home near Traverse City.
“There aren’t a lot of role models for us in the world, or people we can look up to,” she said. “People who are not afraid to stick their neck out, people who are not afraid to stand up for things and be unpopular, to go against the grain, think outside the box.
“And we need, and I need, Michael Moore in my life.”
Pregnant US man hails ‘miracle’
Posted on: April 4, 2008
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A US man who is six months pregnant, 10 years after undergoing a sex change operation, has said he considers his unborn child a “miracle”.
Thomas Beatie, 34, said it was his right to have a child. The medical procedures he underwent a decade ago did not affect his reproductive system.
His wife says she inseminated him using sperm from an anonymous donor. Their doctor says it is a normal pregnancy.
Mr Beatie told chat show host Oprah Winfrey he had always wanted a child.
“It’s not a male or female desire to have a child,” he said. “It’s a human desire. I have a very stable male identity.”
‘Daddy’s little princess’
Mr Beatie, of Bend, Oregon, had breast surgery to remove glands and flatten his chest after deciding to become a man 10 years ago.
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 This baby is totally healthy, this is what I consider a normal pregnancy  Dr Kimberly James
Mr Beatie’s obstetrician |
“I opted not to do anything with my reproductive organs because I wanted to have a child one day,” a thinly bearded Mr Beatie told Oprah Winfrey.
“I didn’t know how. It was just a dream.”
He has been married for five years to wife Nancy, who also appeared on the show along with her two grown-up daughters from a previous marriage, Amber and Jen. They spoke of their admiration for their mother and Mr Beatie.
Mrs Beatie said the couple’s roles would not change once the baby was born.
“He’s going to be the father and I’m going to be the mother,” she said.
They revealed Mr Beatie – a former Hawaiian beauty queen – had conceived by artificial insemination, carried out with a syringe by his wife in their home, with sperm purchased from a bank.
In their first TV interview, for The Oprah Winfrey Show and People magazine, the couple were shown at home in the room that will be the baby’s nursery.
Viewers across the US on Thursday saw footage of Mr Beatie’s ultrasound scan and heard a heartbeat.
He said: “I can’t believe it. I can’t believe she’s inside me. We see her as our little miracle.”
The baby would be “daddy’s little princess”, said Mr Beatie, who described himself as a tomboy growing up.
The couple say they had been refused medical assistance by eight different doctors, before finding one who was prepared to help with the pregnancy.
Mr Beatie’s obstetrician, Dr Kimberly James, told Oprah Winfrey: “This baby is totally healthy. This is what I consider a normal pregnancy.”
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