He still admires Madonna if the following statement is any indication – “She’s a manifester, if there ever was one,” he says. “First-rate manifester. Madonna makes things happen. Put Madonna up against any 23-year-old, she’ll outwork them, outdance them, outperform them.”

Even though he admires his ex-wife he doesn’t have any of her music on his iPod. Even so, he always thought of Madonna as his wife first, and so did their hometown of London. “Madonna, when she came in here, it was old-school London,” Ritchie says. “No one bothered her. ‘Hello, darling. How are you, darling? What can we get you?’ It was fundamental, old-school. It didn’t matter who she was. She was my wife.”

In the interview he implies that Madonna was partially responsible for his biggest flop as a director due to her part in 2002′s Swept Away in which Madonna starred as a shipwrecked trophy wife. It was a box office disaster!

Ritchie said “My sensibility is accessible. The first two accessible movies I made, Lock, Stock [and Two Smoking Barrels] and Snatch, they are accessible,” he says. “The next two aren’t accessible … Swept Away, which, well, everyone gets confused on, because of Madonna.”

I was reading an article in People Magazine this morning and it showed pictures of all three pop stars during the height of their career and one thing I noticed is that all three went through a period in the 80′s and possibly early 90′s where they each wore a glove on one hand.

Just an odd little fact that I found interesting, especially since all their birthdays are so close to one another.

Denise Richards has put her 5 bedroom home up for sale. It’s apparently going for about $4.25 million. Spare change to some!

It looks like that carcass that was thought to be proof that Bigfoot exist was really a Big Hoax. DNA tests have revealed that one of the two samples taken came from a human and the other seems to be 96% opossum. So much for that then.

“Madonna knew the situation in Malawi, where he was born,” Jolie was quoted as telling the Paris-based magazine Gala. “It’s a country where there is no real legal framework for adoption.

“Personally, I prefer to stay on the right side of the law. I would never take a child away from a place where adoption is illegal.”

Yesterday Jolie issues a statement indicating that the magazine had misrepresented some of her statements.

“The article included many falsehoods,” she said . “I said many positive things that were omitted. I feel we must focus on the present and I encourage everyone to be supportive so that every child can adjust nicely to their new home.”

Apparently the Malawian government expressed admiration for how Madonna has gone about this adoption. The terms of the interim custody arrangement requre Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie require them to submit to monitoring by child and welfare officials for 18 months. After that period of time little Davids adoption may be finalized.

“We have been monitoring her,” spokesperson Adrina Mchiela told Reuters on Friday, “and so far we see a loving mother in Madonna, and David is very fine.”

Davids father, Yohane Banda, said last week that he’d like to contact Madonna to find out how his son is but he doesn’t know her number and doesn’t have any other way of getting in touch with her.

The first official court assessment of Madonna’s adoption process is expected in May. In November, a coalition of 67 Malawian human rights groups was granted its request to be a party to the assessment.

In the Gala Magazine interview Jolie alluded to the fact that both she and Pitt are open to having more children. She also gushed about her feelings for Brad, saying “Don’t go repeating it whatever you do, but yes, I love him. I love him a lot,” she told the magazine. “After I met him, my life seemed more harmonious.”

Members of the human rights coalition claim the Malawian government fast tracked the adoption process for the singer and her husband Guy Ritchie, and state that intra-country adoptions are not allowed in the African nation.

Madonna’s Malawian lawyer Alan Chinula says, “They, Madonna and Ritchie, called me from London and I explained to them the ruling. They have no problem with the ruling and are also willing to sit back and wait.”

He added of the coalition’s suit, “It’s good for the law. Let’s build the law, let the court hear other views. It’s not Madonna using an antiquated law, we followed the law to the letter in the adoption process, but it’s just a bad law.”