The Madonna and Guy Ritchie dirty laundry is yet to fully air, but recent reports indicate that their marriage began to disintegrate when Madge planned the couple’s sex life in her around her gym sessions.

The regimented life of the 50-year-old Madonna apparently means that her bedroom time was planned for weeks in advance.

A source close to the couple told London paper The Mail:

“With her time being so precious to her, and with there being more important things to her like spending three of four hours in the gym every day, it become just another thing in the diary. In the last couple of years, it was all schemed into the diary. Guy of course felt this a tremendous turn-off to be at the same level of importance as, for example, her gym sessions and Kabbalah meetings. As a consequence, their sex life died more than a year ago. It is no exaggeration to say that they had not shared a bed in a year when the divorce was announced. And when the sex died for them, the marriage was doomed.”

Also coming out in the wash is that Madonna once questioned her film director husband with regard to who the leading lady he was casting in a project was. And when Ritchie asked about his wife’s relationship with Yankee Alex Rodriguez slugger, Madonna refused to discuss it with him.

When I was a teenager I went to see Depeche Mode play at the Los Angeles Sports Arena with several friends and right before leaving the house, I told my Israeli mother I was going to a “Depeche Mode” concert. ‘Tipesh Meod’ means ‘very stupid’ in Hebrew. So, when my mother responded “why are you going there if its so stupid?” I couldn’t help but laugh…

The 2007 film “The Posters Came from The Walls” is a documentary film about Depeche Mode fans from around the world. I can’t find the film anywhere on IMDB yet, but apparently its playing at the London Film Festival ….

Here’s nine things you should know about Depeche Mode:

1. Dave Gahan’s birthday falls on 9th May, Russia’s National Day. In St Peterburg, Mode fans celebrate it as “Dave Day” every year.

2. When he overdosed in 1996, the heroin Dave Gahan used for the speedball was a pure brand called ‘Red Rum.’ He said: “I thought it referred to the racehorse until someone pointed out it spells ‘murder’ backwards.”

3. George Michael’s favorite Depeche Mode track is ‘A Question Of Lust.’

4. Vince Clarke and Andy Fletcher were in the 5th Basildon Boys Brigade.

5. The band are from Basildon. An anagram of Basildon is “I So Bland.”

6. The first album Martin Gore bought was David Bowie’s ‘Ziggy Stardust.’

7. Vince Clarke’s real name is Vince Martin. He changed his name when he realized he would be in trouble as he was still signing on to the ‘dole’ (unemployment benefits in the UK.)

8. When Alan Wilder (who lied about his age at the audition - he was over 21) joined Depeche Mode, he was paid only £50 a week.

9. Alison Moyet was in Andy Fletcher’s class at school and “the best fighter in the year”.

Sean Penn was the first of what seems to be many husbands to Madonna. Sources on the set say that after a gay kissing scene, Penn who plays ‘Harvey Milk’ a San Francisco gay politician and activist, called his ex-wife from the set of “Milk” and left her a message saying that he now understood her better.

The trailer for “Milk” can be found here

“Milk” is in theaters starting November 26, 2008