Madge! Madge! Madge!

Mo. Madge. Madonna. (Bill or Billy or Mack or Buddy) She's done it again. First the fake British accent and now this. Don't most stars not want you to make eye contact? The Calvinator and I get into staring contests when he misbehaves. And contrary to popular opinion, I win.

Eyes have it: Madonna demands eye contact

By Jeannette Walls
MSNBC
Updated: 1:41 a.m. CT July 10, 2007

Madonna had an unusual backstage demand at the Live Earth concert: make eye contact.

While some stars issue edicts demanding that minions not look them in the eye, the Material Girl startled organizers of the global warming awareness concert by reportedly insisting that anyone who interviewed her backstage at Wembley Stadium was not allowed to look away.

“Eye contact must be maintained at all times,” interviewers were told, according to the London Mirror. “Never look down to check notes — all questions must be memorized or the interview will be terminated.”

“We thought her people were just joking,” a source told the paper. “But it soon became apparent that they were deadly serious.”

Interviewers were also given a list of questions they were not allowed to ask: no inquiries about the state of her marriage to director Guy Ritchie, about their adoption of a Malawian child, or about her religion, Kabbalah.

“She did not want to do any interviews, which I told the Live Earth folks from the start,” Madonna’s rep told The Scoop, adding that she didn’t know about any backstage demands.

Photo: Anthony Harvey/AP