Madonna Banned From Alamo Drafthouse Cinema For Texting During '12 Years A Slave' Premiere

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Anyone who knows about the world famous Alamo Drafthouse Cinema movie theater knows about their zero-tolerance policy regarding texting during movies. But Madonna is finding out just how extreme the Drafthouse's zero-tolerance policy is, as she's been banned for behavior committed in entirely different theater!

During the premiere of Oscar frontrunner 12 Years A Slave at the New York Film Festival earlier this week, the pop icon was spotted texting during the screening of Steve McQueen's slavery drama. A Facebook post by film critic Charles Taylor, who passed along the observations of a former student, details what followed:

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. 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.

The news got back to Tim League, founder of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the Texas-based theater chain that made headlines after producing several comical celebrity anti-texting PSAs. Upon hearing of Madonna's poor theatergoing etiquette, League took to Twitter to declare that the singer would be banned from setting foot inside any of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema locations until she issues a formal apology to moviegoers.

The singer has yet to respond, but I wouldn't hold my breath, if I were League. The words "Madonna apologizes" don't turn up very many results on Google.

Via: IndieWire