Girl of the Day - Madonna

Madonna turns 54 today.   A great American story, if you put aside the weirdness, the cliched desire to shock the bourgeois (which ca. 2012 is well-nigh unshockable), the exhibitionism.   Stand back and what you see is a wildly successful self-made woman who went from nothing to tens of millions of dollars, perhaps hundreds, solely on the basis of her personality.   But, still:   time to act her age, methinks.   She's not this girl anymore.