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Review

Filmed on location in Sydney, Australia, seductress/songster Madonna bumps and grinds her way through a well-chosen selection of her hits, past and present.

Highlights include the expected costume changes; a strip-bar opening number complete with topless dancer; a bacchanalian celebration of sexuality climaxing with Mother Ciccione collapsing into a heap of writhing/undulating bodies; a '70s disco get-down session featuring an entrance atop a mirror ball; and unique versions of the songs "Like a Virgin" (evoking images of a Marlene Dietrich cabaret performance) and the controversial "Justify My Love" (done in full haute couture and breaking into hand jives by song's end).

With terrific set design by her openly gay brother Christopher, nudity galore (at Maddie's request, her dancers were all purported to be openly gay and had to be comfortable with public nudity), and performance pieces centered around homophobia and racism, the bottom line is that this video is hot and one of her best.