As international airport security checkpoints are being frantically refitted with urinals and spitbuckets in a panicked effort to confiscate every last drop of errant fluid that may later be turned into a deadly detonation device, it seems, for better or worse, that World Trade Center couldn't have chosen a more appropriate weekend to premiere/re-scare the shit out of us. Satisfied that his work here is done, WTC star Nicholas Cage has reinvested some of the dividends from his Campaign of Healing™ into himself, purchasing his very own castle way off in, of all places, low-on-terrorists'-to-do-list Bavaria:
Last month he bought a castle in Bavaria called Schloss Neidstein. The inspiration? His mom."Her ancestors are all from good old Bavaria," Cage, 42, tells the German magazine Bunte about his mother, dancer Joy Vogelsang. [...]
Schloss Neidstein sits on a hill with a stunning view of its 395 acres of forest, meadows and fields. The castle itself has 28 rooms, including 10 bedrooms and five bathrooms - 9,688 square feet in total.
The story about his mom is sweet, though we have a feeling his purchase has less to do with honoring his Teutonic heritage, and more to do with the eccentric actor wanting to fully embrace the vampire lifestyle. It's a delusion that first planted itself in Cage's head early in his career, with his cockroach-eating turn in Vampire's Kiss, and most probably won't end until Cage lies with a broken leg in a thicket thirty feet below his bedroom window, after unsuccessfully thinking his bat wings would carry him across the Bavarian night sky.
- Nicolas Cage's New Home is His Castle [People.com]
