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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    02/05/09

    In reply to Christian Bale Explodes His Way Out of Oscar Contention
    How about some sympathy for Mr Bale?


    I know I've been absolutely inconsolable since hearing that Newsies 2: More Donegal Caps! was put on hold.

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    Image of Sir Thomas More Sir Thomas More
    02/05/09

    In reply to Christian Bale Explodes His Way Out of Oscar Contention
    In defense of Bale's blow-up: the haters are probably not actors or someone who doesn't understand what it's like to be an actor.


    Just imagine if someone were performing a surgery, and some nurse or technician interrupted that surgery by fixing the lighting fixture. Or, if a judge is handing out her summation and sentencing when a court clerk, or staff, starts re-arranging the books. The scene that Bale was doing was probably an emotional one, when the lighting photography interrupted (and acting is already an emotional process as is). He was probably sitting in his trailer the whole time preparing himself for that scene. It wasn't like he blew-up 'coz of some production assistant handed him a Poland Springs water instead of Evian, or he specifically requsted green M&M's only and he found a blue one in the bowl Etc., etc.


    Besides, just because we live in this new age of technology, where everything is brought up to speed (thus, we get to see that youtube video right away), doesn't mean we should judge immediately.


    Also, great actors (like Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier) tend to be more emotional (or an asshole) than others . There was just no youtube back then to chronicle their blow-ups.


    Give Bale a slack. If the Oscars were to decide to take him out of consideration, they should base it on his talent or acting (or lack thereof, according to most of the commenters here), and not on his antics on the set.

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    02/05/09

    @Sir Thomas More: Nice try at justifying a four minute tantrum. Somewhere around the 45 second mark, even if Bale were performing brain surgery (and, remember, what he was doing was not even close), he crossed the line into insufferable ass.
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    02/05/09

    @Sir Thomas More: You didn't happen to dress up like the Joker last Halloween, did you?


    Quoth The Carpetbagger:


    The Bagger was never a "Dark Knight" advocate, because of an unsatisfying third act and because Mr. Bale insisted on making his Batman a low-talking oddlet, with a voice that was more comic than menacing. The Bagger always wondered why no one stepped to Mr. Bale and told him it wasn't working - now I guess we know why. He seems, well, sort of sensitive.

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    02/05/09

    @Sir Thomas More: the haters are probably not actors or someone who doesn't understand what it's like to be an actor.


    Indeed. For instance, I think it's a professional version of playing pretend. And as a professional, he pretend to play one.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    02/05/09

    @Sir Thomas More: Orson Welles (in)famously threw a tantrum while recording a voiceover for a commercial for frozen peas. It is well-known and widely available on the internet.


    Second, the "M&M clauses" notoriously found in touring contracts are not necessarily because the artist is picky. Often, it is put in there to determine the level of compliance with the contract. If details like that are being complied with, there is likely compliance with other terms of the contract.


    Third, plagiarism is uncool.

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    Image of Understater Understater
    02/05/09

    In reply to Christian Bale Explodes His Way Out of Oscar Contention
    Christian Bale's on-set blow up will probably hurt his Oscar chances.


    The fact that he's just not that good of an actor probaly factors into it as well.

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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    02/05/09

    In reply to Christian Bale Explodes His Way Out of Oscar Contention
    Cruise then proceeded to show off by ordering "Dos chalupas y un taco con queso.. ¡y la margarita, ay che wow!"
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    Image of PandoraSpocks PandoraSpocks
    02/05/09

    In reply to Christian Bale Explodes His Way Out of Oscar Contention
    "Christian Bale may have yelled his way out of a gold statue, and Tom Cruise never stopped to think why those glib Brazilians weren't responding to his Spanish."


    That's a great sentence, Ryan.

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    Image of WifeMotherCrip WifeMotherCrip
    02/05/09

    In reply to Christian Bale Explodes His Way Out of Oscar Contention
    Now why can't Page 6 at least make up something plausible? I find it hard to believe that Tom Cruise would speak Spanish in a country where every freaking sign is in Portugese. He'd had to be pretty oblvious...
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    02/05/09

    @WifeMotherCrip: Which is exactly the point of the Page 6 article: [www.nypost.com]
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    Image of LucilleMcGillicuddy LucilleMcGillicuddy
    02/05/09

    In reply to Christian Bale Explodes His Way Out of Oscar Contention
    All of the Pythons absolutely hate each other. Such a shame.
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    Image of londoner londoner
    02/05/09

    In reply to Christian Bale Explodes His Way Out of Oscar Contention
    I think the thing that will hurt his Oscar chances the most is not actually being nominated. Or was he expecting to get a nomination for the Terminator film?
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    Image of prince_matchabelli prince_matchabelli
    02/05/09

    @londoner: Maybe as John Connor, he can go back in time to the 1930s when people could write in Oscar candidates. And he could send a Terminator back to 1931 to kill Wallace Beery! I think I just wrote the sequel!
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    02/05/09

    @prince_matchabelli: So let me get this straight: Given a free shot at anybody alive in 1931, you're picking Wallace Beery.
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    Image of blix blix
    02/05/09

    @skahammer: Sieg heil snap!
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    Image of prince_matchabelli prince_matchabelli
    02/05/09

    @skahammer: You're right, I forgot about Hitler's Oscar snub for his scene-stealing comic turn in Triumph of the Will.
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    Image of blix blix
    02/05/09

    @prince_matchabelli: Today Poland, tommorrow ze Golden Globe!
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    02/05/09

    @prince_matchabelli: I withdraw my objection in the face of withering scorn wittily deployed, Your Honor.
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    02/05/09

    In reply to Christian Bale Explodes His Way Out of Oscar Contention
    I think what hurt his Oscar chances is his really bad acting.
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    Image of Colander Colander
    02/05/09

    In reply to Christian Bale Explodes His Way Out of Oscar Contention
    Haven't assholes been winning Oscar's for years?
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    Image of ambitious ambitious
    02/03/09

    In reply to Phelps Tried To Cover Up Pot Pics
    I read the heading as "Pot Pies" 3 TIMES.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    02/03/09

    In reply to Phelps Tried To Cover Up Pot Pics
    So THAT'S what John Cleese considers to be a good body, huh? Evidently I've drunken WAY too few pints and done WAY to many sit-ups.
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    Image of dado dado
    02/03/09

    In reply to Phelps Tried To Cover Up Pot Pics
    She saw a blog of people, did she? Well I saw a sleuth of bears once, and they stole my picnic basket. My ego came out OK, though.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    02/03/09

    In reply to Phelps Tried To Cover Up Pot Pics
    Francis was busted when he showed up for court fivehours late, claiming he had the flu, per AP.
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    02/03/09

    In reply to Phelps Tried To Cover Up Pot Pics
    This is a bummer, man.
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