Alex Rodriguez, Madonna are all smiles at Miami concert

MIAMI - Was that the look of love Madonna and Alex Rodriguez were beaming at each other Wednesday night?

It sure looked like it to some folks at Madge's Sticky & Sweet concert at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.

As A-Rod sat in a front row between Rod Stewart and his amour's manager, Guy Oseary, Madge fixed her gaze on him and sang, "You Must Love Me."

He smiled at her, and the Material Girl got all teary-eyed.

Many in the crowd nodded knowingly when, before her rendition of "I'm So Far Away," she told fans, "I'm sure you can relate about a long-distance love affair."

In a couple of hotter moments, Madge gyrated in A-Rod's direction while winking at him and later went pneumatic on a speaker while staring his way.

Through it all A-Rod smiled, applauded and even rose to his feet when Madge - apparently in need of more crowd participation - shouted, "C'mon you mother-------, stand up and stop trying to look bored. Put your hands in the air and smell your armpits."

Apparently nothing Madge can do offends her fans or A-Rod.

She began her show two hours late because she got caught in traffic, never apologized for the delay and didn't even wish the crowd a happy Thanksgiving.

Still, they cheered like crazy.

Sources close to A-Rod confirmed Wednesday night that he's spending Thanksgiving with his soon-to-be ex-wife and her family in Miami.

"He has been planning on attending dinner with Cynthia, their daughters and her family for some time now," the source told the Daily News.

The report that A-Rod will be breaking bread with his estranged wife's family comes amid rumors that he was going to ditch dinner with his two young daughters, Natasha, 4, and Ella, 1, to host a get-together in New York for Madonna and her kids.

Britney & Madonna Dodger Stadium Duet Live Concert

ET was on the scene at Madonna's L.A. concert Thursday night as the Material Mom gave Dodger Stadium an extra "sticky and sweet" treat: Britney Spears took the stage! But Madonna had a second huge musical surprise in store for the crowd, too!

Half way through Madonna's hit song "Human Nature," Britney made her way onto the stage for a jaw-dropping, joint performance -- where the two simultaneously sang, "We're not sorry -- It's human nature." After the duet, the pop princess made an outfit change and came back to watch the show!If that surprise weren't enough, Madonna also shared the stage with pop sensation Justin Timberlake!

Madonna's children -- Lourdes, 12, and Rocco, 7 -- were brought out from the backstage area just ten minutes before the big performance kicked off to watch their mom rock the house. Also on hand for Madonna's big LA show were A-list star Jennifer Lopez, Heidi Klum, Kate Moss, Lucy Liu, and Hayden Panettiere!

Madonna and Britney famously took the stage together at the 2003 MTV VMAs.




Forty-eight hours after America elected its first black president and California voted to ban gay marriage, Madonna brought her Sticky & Sweet Tour to Dodger Stadium on Thursday for a night of triumph and defiance. One of pop's longest-lived provocateurs, Madonna always has had something to say -- even when she hasn't. (Remember her utterly useless version of "American Pie"?)



Yet like a firefighter or the cast of "Saturday Night Live," the singer is at her best at moments of consequence; she needs life to supply her with a canvas as big as her music wants to be.Barack Obama's message of change is one that might've been custom-made for Madonna, who has maintained her place in the pop-star firmament not by hewing to a single vision but by regularly arriving at the future slightly ahead of her competitors. Although it's thematically tied to her current “Hard Candy” album, the Sticky & Sweet show, a two-hour multimedia juggernaut with no shortage of technology or textiles, is really designed, as is every Madonna production, to showcase the breadth of her titanic legacy.