Madonna reportedly shouts 'enslaver' in theater-texting outburst

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This list is long, so brace yourself. According to media reports, Madonna married and divorced Sean Penn, dated Warren Beatty, hooked up with porn star Tony Ward, hung out with Vanilla Ice, got hot for her bodyguard, got heavy with Dennis Rodman, and fell for her personal trainer. With that trainer, Madonna gave birth to a baby girl in 1996.

And then there was Guy. Madonna and Guy Ritchie met in 1998; in 2000, they married and had a son together, but after years of bliss, the couple split in 2008. (Stephen Lovekin / Getty Images)

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Both Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera had been actively working to break away from their squeaky-clean, Mickey Mouse Club personae, and Madonna was just the person to help. In August 2003, Madonna turned heads, raised eyebrows and got those tongues wagging yet again when she locked lips during a performance with both pop stars onstage at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. (Scott Gries / Getty Images)

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In April 2008, the Material Girl released “Hard Candy,” her 11th studio album, which featured Pharrell Williams, Timbaland and Justin Timberlake. She subsequently launched the international Sticky & Sweet tour to promote it. She earned the right to strike a pose and vogue after bringing in $120.1 million total in 2008 from North American touring ($105.3 million) and music sales ($14.8 million), but the numbers were still low by industry standards.

The singer’s best preparation for the demands of directing a movie may have been her ambitious, visually driven live shows. “When you’re putting a show together, you’re dealing with so many elements,” she said. “You’re creating a stage and working with lights and costumes and dancers who you could say are the actors. You’re paying attention to the minutiae and you’re also stepping back and looking at the bigger picture. I always like to tell stories in my show and have some kind of an arc. I have a crew that I rely on desperately and ... I’m working with creative people, so I need to be judicious with the way that I speak with them. I’ve always been intricately involved in every aspect of my show. I know where all the nails are on the stage.” (Ettore Ferrari / EPA)

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In 2010, Madonna and her daughter, Lourdes “Lola” Ciccone Leon, teamed up with Macy’s to launch Material Girl, a 1980s-inspired clothing line for young women that would be available in 200 Macy’s stores.

“Sometimes [Lourdes] will do certain things or say certain things and I’ll feel like I’m looking in a mirror,” Madonna said. “I’ll get really irritated with her and then I’ll stop and think, ‘But that’s what I used to do.’ Or ‘That’s what I do.’ If I complain to my friends and say, ‘Oh, she’s so strong willed or she’s so opinionated,’ they look at me and go, ‘Well, what did you expect?’ ”

Former “Gossip Girl” actress-turned-punk-rocker Taylor Momsen first fronted the line but was later replaced by Kelly Osbourne. But the sartorial collection came under fire when a Los Angeles apparel manufacturer sued the pop star, claiming they had been selling their merchandise under the same brand name since 1997. (Evan Agostini / Associated Press)

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Since her split with Guy Ritchie, the Material Girl has been seen cozying up up with her latest boy toy, Brahim Zaibat. (Arnaldo Magnani / Getty Images)

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Madonna‘s song “Masterpiece” from her romantic drama “W.E.” was named best original song at the 2012 Golden Globes. But the song is not eligible for the equivalent prize at the Academy Awards ceremony, however -- evidently it was placed too far into the movie’s end credits to qualify for an Oscar. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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The 2012 MDNA tour could shape up to be one of the 10 biggest tours of all time, with 89 shows in 28 countries, including stops in 18 cities where Madonna had never performed before. The show features about 700 wardrobe pieces for all the performers onstage and seven songs from the “MDNA” album are on the set list.
MORE: Madonna’s MDNA tour by the numbers (Jeff Fusco / Getty Images)

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Madonna took home the top touring award for MDNA at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 19, 2013. The tour was crowned 2012’s top-grossing concert attraction worldwide by Billboard, surpassing other highly popular road shows by Bruce Springsteen, Roger Waters, Coldplay and Lady Gaga. The tour grossed $228.4 million over the course of 72 shows (all sold out), according to the magazine’s calculations, which are based on figures reported to Billboard Boxscore from Nov. 9, 2011, to Nov. 13, 2012. Forbes later calculated that the tour grossed than $305 million. (Jason Merritt / Getty Images)

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Madonna arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala benefit in honor of the museum’s 2013 exhibit, “Punk: Chaos to Couture” on May 6, 2013, in New York. It’s fair to say that her ensemble showed that she was in her element. Times Fashion critic Booth Moore noted that her look was “tarty,” and “hinted at the DIY, bondage aspect of punk, though it might have been more fun if she’d just broken out one of her old ‘Like a Virgin’ ensembles to remind us that she really was a punk in her own way.”

Vogue editor-at-large Andre Leon-Talley said she “turned up around 8:30 p.m. dressed as a Louise Brooks-sleek brunette-bobbed punk diva, resplendent with marvelous studs, and a short Givenchy Haute Couture jacket that topped off her stockinged legs and fuchsia heels.” (Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty Images)

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At age 55, the Material Girl was named 2013’s top-earning celebrity unseating 2012’s top earner, Oprah Winfrey, according to Forbes magazine. She earned an estimated $125 million between June 2012 and June 2013, the mag said, despite poor sales for her “MDNA” album. But the album’s corresponding tour, which happened to coincide with her powerhouse halftime-show performance at the 2012 Super Bowl, bolstered her earnings big time. Merchandise sales, her Material Girl clothing line, fragrances and investments helped her forge her way to the top of the list. In 2009, the mag estimated she earned $110 million, which is the closest she ever came to this year’s high.

In this photo, Madonna waves in central Rome after visiting her Hard Candy Fitness center, a global chain of gyms opening around the world, on August 21, 2013. (Tiziana Fabi / AFP / Getty Images)

By Nardine Saad

Oct. 14, 2013 4:57 PM PT

<i>This post has been corrected. See note below for details.</i>

Madonna appears to be a slave to her celluar phone, and business apparently, as her fervent texting has led to her ban from a movie theater chain.

The Material Girl seems to believe she’s above movie theater etiquette — namely not texting during a movie — and reportedly texted continuously during a New York Film Festival premiere screening of Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave,” according to several reports.

Charles Taylor, a film writer for Salon, partly catalyzed the media maelstrom when he shared an eyewitness account of the incident, which was originally posted on Facebook by one of his former NYU students who chronicled the dispute.

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“Tonight at the New York Film Festival premiere of ’12 Years A Slave’ (a masterpiece, by the way), I sat behind the unholy trifecta of Jason Ritter, J. Alexander from ‘America’s Next Top Model,’ and Michael K. Williams from ‘The Wire.’ Plus, a mysterious blonde in black lace gloves who wouldn’t stop texting on her Blackberry throughout the first half of the movie,” the student wrote (via IndieWire).

“Eventually, a woman next to me tapped her on the shoulder and told her to put her phone away, and the blonde hissed back, ‘It’s for business... ENSLAVER!’ I turned to the shoulder tapper and loudly said, ‘THANKS!’ and gave her a thumbs up. The rest of the movie, I kept thinking about how I wanted to tell the blonde what a disgrace she was. During the standing ovation, the blonde ducked out and Jason Ritter turned around to make commiserating eye contact, as J. Alexander asked, ‘Who WAS that?!’ Jason then looked down at the floor. His eyes got wide, and he picked up an envelope and showed it to us and J. And it said: ‘2 screening tix MADONNA.’ And sure enough, we looked to the side of the theater and standing against the wall in black lace gloves was Madonna. The worst person in America.”

Ouch.

The incident got the 55-year-old barred from the Texas-based Alamo Drafthouse chain of upscale cinemas until she cops to her bad behavior, according to a tweet from theater founder Tim League.

“Until she apologizes to movie fans, Madonna is banned from watching movies @drafthouse,” he wrote.

The theater’s website states that it has “a zero-tolerance policy towards talking and texting during the movie. If you talk or text, you will receive one warning. If it happens again, you will be kicked out without a refund.”

When Entertainment Weekly reached out to League about his public shaming of the singer, he said it started off as an “offhand joke, a spur of the moment 140 characters.”

But he then said, “Yeah, I’m serious, but I don’t think it really affects her life that much,” adding, it was “more of a means to get the issue out there, that it is rude to text during movies.”

Madge reportedly enjoyed the film and was also photographed with the director, but her lack of theater etiquette is alarming since she’s a filmmaker too. Forbes’ top-earning celebrity just wrapped her second directorial effort, the short film “secretprojectrevolution.” However, the 17-minute film about freedom of expression (surprise, surprise) was released via BitTorrent Bundle, so it won’t need to have its run in a movie house anytime soon.

She has yet to respond to the incident.

[For the record, 10:30 p.m. Oct. 14: A previous version of this post said Charles Taylor was an eyewitness to the incident. He was not. The eyewitness was one of his students who posted about the account on Facebook, and Taylor shared the post. It also said Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League’s last name was Alamo.]

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