Guy Ritchie called Madonna a piece of gristle. That doesn’t mean every story needs to use that word as a Madonna descriptor forever. It just makes it a writerly cliché. I would say Google the words Madonna and gristle and look at the 56436billionTK hits you get, but citing a Google twofer to illustrate your point is worse than using the adjective gristly to modify the proper noun Madonna (British). I don’t even like Madonna (unless you count the Dick Tracy soundtrack which is solid gold), I just hate the word gristle used to describe any person by fleshy journalists who think it’s clever. I would end this rant with an </rant> but that too is cliché. I think I will just go with dunzo. Dunzo.