While at the Toronto film festival, along with director Joel Schumacher promoting the film about a home invasion, Nicolas Cage said that he has actually lived through the nightmare in real life.
“It was two in the morning. I was living in Orange County at the time and was asleep with my wife. My two-year old at the time was in another room. I opened my eyes and there was a naked man wearing my leather jacket eating a Fudgesicle in front of my bed,” he told reporters on Wednesday.
“I know it sounds funny … but it was horrifying.”
A Fudgesicle is a frozen, ice cream-like snack.
Cage said the ordeal ended after he talked the man out of the house and police arrived. He did not press charges, as the man had mental problems, but Cage, who now lives in Nassau, Bahamas, said he could not stay in the house after that.
In “Trespass,” which is scheduled for release in October, thieves con their way into the opulent mansion where Cage’s character lives with his unhappy wife (played by Nicole Kidman) and their daughter.
The family is held for ransom and the movie follows a path of twists and turns as negotiations with the intruders ensue.
Schumacher, who earlier cast Cage in his film “8MM,” and Kidman in “Batman Forever,” said “Trespass” is also about extremes between the rich and the poor in America.
“It’s a class warfare movie too, about the haves and the have-nots.”
The diamond-dealing Cage character and one of the invaders are two versions of the same man, in that they have both “overreached to have their share of what used to be called ‘The American Dream,’” Schumacher said.
Hours after the White House party crasher’s husband made a public plea for help in finding his wife, whom he believed had been kidnapped Tuesday, Virginia’s Warren County Sheriff’s Office released a statement saying authorities had spoken with Michaele Salahi and she was “fine” and “where she wanted to be.”
According to the statement, Tareq Salahi contacted authorities at 11:55 p.m. Tuesday after Michaele Salahi called him from an Oregon area code and proceeded to stay out of touch for six hours.
“Deputy Mike Glavis subsequently spoke with Mrs. Salahi by telephone a few moments later,” the sheriff’s office said in its statement. “Deputy Glavis was able to identify Mrs. Salahi by having previous conversations with her in the past. She seemed calm, was engaged in conversation, and assured the deputy that she had left the residence with a good friend and was where she wanted to be. Mrs. Salahi advised that she did not want Mr. Salahi to know where she was. Mrs. Salahi advised Deputy Glavis that she was very sorry that the Sheriff’s Office had to be involved, but she did not want to be home right now.”
The sheriff’s office said it’s working with the FBI “in an attempt to make additional contact with Mrs. Salahi to assure her well being.” An official told ABCNews.com that no missing person’s report has been filed and there’s “no reason to believe Mrs. Salahi is any danger.”
Michaele Salahi is instead in Memphis with Journey guitarist Neal Schon, Schon’s spokesperson confirmed.
Tareq Salahi made an impassioned plea via TMZ.com today, saying he believed his wife “may have been kidnapped or abducted and being held under duress and forced to tell persons, including authorities she is okay.” He launched campaigns to find her on Facebook and Twitter and retweeted a follower saying “Michaele Salahi was last seen wearing a Baby Blue T-shirt dress with a silver glitter dolphin on the front and black thongs,” presumably referring to her sandals.
News anchors are supposed to read the news, not make it. But we’re more than happy to make an exception for two reporters from Philadelphia’s Fox 29 morning show, “Good Day.”
After interviewing Kim and Kourtney Kardashian on the air, Mike Jerrick and Sheinelle Jones thought the cameras had stopped rolling. They hadn’t.
As soon as they said their goodbyes to the Kardashians, who were promoting a line of clothes, the anchors began making fun of the two sisters. “Can they still hear us?” asks Jerrick. He then proceeds to mock the reality stars for their high-pitched voices and affinity for shoulder pads.
Jones half-heartedly attempts to defend the sisters, saying, “I think they’re stunning.” But even she can’t keep a straight face as her cohort continues speaking in a nasally Kardashian-like voice, a bit like a Smurf who had inhaled helium.
Yes, yes, we know. Making fun of others is wrong. Except when it’s the Kardashians. Then it’s hilarious. Enjoy!
“Real Housewives of D.C.” star Tareq Salahi believes his wife Michaele Salahi was abducted in Virginia yesterday, but he’s afraid the cops aren’t taking the situation seriously, TMZ has learned.
TMZ just spoke with Tareq, who tells us he last saw Michaele at their home around 11 a.m. EST yesterday, right before he left to go to their winery. Tareq says Michaele told him she was going to get her hair done, but she never went to the appointment. She’s been missing ever since.
Tareq claims he got a phone call from Michaele late last night from an unfamiliar Oregon cell phone number and she told him she was going to her mother’s house, located minutes away from the Salahi home.
Tareq says he was suspicious,so he called Michaele’s mother, who told him she hadn’t spoken with Michaele and was unaware of her plans. That’s when Tareq — fearing Michaele had been abducted — called the Warren County Sheriff’s Dept. for help.
But Tareq claims deputies told him she had already called them, informing them she was OK and just dealing with some “family issues.”
Tareq tells TMZ that he believes Michaele had been forced to make the phone calls by her abductor and believes she is in very real danger, especially because the Salahis have received death threats in the past.
Tareq says he’s considering going to other law enforcement for help because he feels the Warren County Sheriffs are not taking proper action.
Tareq has issued a statement saying, “We are reaching to the public pleading [sic] desperately for your help.”
He continues, “It is our belief as of last night, that Michaele Salahi may have been kidnapped or abducted and being held under duress and forced to tell persons, including authorities she is okay.”
“We are asking the public to please be on the look out for her, and if found please contact the authorities and please approach her and contact the authorities to intervene and that she may be forced to say she is okay, when in fact she is not and being held under possible abduction.”
A rep for the WCSD tells TMZ cops are not releasing any info about the situation at this time.
Usually when you break into someones house you get in and out as quickly as possible while grabbing the most expensive things you can, not that I’ve done this or anything. But a burglar who broke into Celine Dion‘s home obviously missed this memo.
You see the man, who has now been identified as 36-year-old Daniel Bedard, broke into Celine’s mansion in Montreal and decided to treat the home as if it was his own because he made himself some snacks and then ran himself a bath. Celine and husband Rene Angelil luckily weren’t at home at the time of the break-in.
Bedard, who ate a few pastries, scaled the fence of the singers home and then tried to gain access to the house through the front door but this failed. He then spotted Angélil’s car had keys in the ignition and a garage door opener so he broke into the car and took those. He then gained access through the the garage.
After having his snack the failed burglar then went upstairs and put the bath on but what he didn’t know is that he had set off the house alarm which alerted local police who immediately came to the scene.
A spokesman for the police, Franco Di Genova, said that when they arrived at the house they found Bedard coming down the stairs and asked officers “Hey, guys what are young doing here?’”
“So the officers replied, ‘What are you doing here?’ and they proceeded to put him under arrest,” says Genova.
Bedard was then arrested and charged with breaking and entering, car theft and property damage and is next due to appear in court on November 21st.
This actually reminds me of somebody that I know who got broken into, the burglar broke into their home and made themselves a sandwich but they also took some jewelry.
Whole Foods has stopped selling former “Real House wives of New York City” star Bethenny Frankel‘s Skinnygirl Margarita, after discovering it has potentially carcinogenic ingredients. It causes cancer!
The drink — which Frankel crows on her Web site is “the margarita you can trust” with “all natural ingredients” and “no preservatives” — actually contains the preservative sodium benzoate, sources said.
What did Bethenny have to say about it?
“I’m not making wheatgrass here. If I could put an agave plant and some limes on a shelf I would. [The Skinnygirl Margarita] is as close to nature as possible, while still being a shelf-stable product,” she said.
She also added that the brand was only in a dozen of Whole Foods stores and they decided it wasn’t worth it to keep selling there and her company ended the relationship, so take that, Whole Foods.
A press release promoting the Kardashian sisters’ new clothing line for Sears was released yesterday and it has some people pretty angry.
Hi, I hope you are doing well!
Kourtney, Kim and Khloe personally invite you to join them in celebrating the launch of the Kardashian Kollection. Join the stylish Kardashian klan on September 6th at the private studio of the legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz for an exclusive preview of their fabulous new fashion Kollection for Sears.
Alliteration is great, but someone in the Kardashian camp doesn’t know when to cool it with the “K’s,” and referred to Kim, Khloe and Kourtney as the “Kardashian Klan.”
As The Observer notes, that spelling of “klan” is only associated with one thing, “And it doesn’t help that their primary initials amount to three consecutive K’s.”
Clearly this was an oversight, but perhaps it will teach the Kardashians a lesson.
Heather Bormann, 29, of Cleveland, a charter bus driver who got into a scuffle with Matthew Fox early Sunday morning, is giving her side of the story.
She told the Cleveland Plain Dealer in a Monday interview that she was attacked by Fox, who is in Cleveland to film I, Alex Cross, when she refused to let him on a bus that was reserved for a private party.
The mother of three said she did not realize it was Fox until after he was in police custody.
“He smelled like a liquor cabinet, like a bar,” Bormann explained. “I told him, ‘Sorry, buddy, this is a private party. You have to get off my vehicle.’ I told him three times. He never said a word. He just looked at me.”
She said Fox starting “swinging on her,” which left bruises on her arms, right leg, thighs and chest. Bormann said when he would not stop, she punched him in the mouth, sending him stumbling back. An off-duty police officer then got involved. Bormann says she is pressing charges against the actor, who has not commented on the incident.
Daryl Hannah was detained by officers at the White House on Tuesday, after ignoring repeated requests to move from the sidewalk in front of the president’s residence.
Hannah was taken away in cuffs.
Hannah was there to protest against the unbuilt Keystone XL oil pipeline that will stretch from Canada all the way to the Gulf Coast.
“Sometimes it’s necessary to sacrifice your freedom for a greater freedom,” Hannah said in before being arrested. “And we want to be free from the horrible death and destruction that fossil fuels cause, and have a clean energy future.”
NBC also points out that this isn’t the first time Hannah has been in cuffs due to protesting. She was once arrested for stopping traffic in West Virginia over coal mining.
Matthew Fox has found himself in hot water with police in Cleveland, Ohio after he was detained by them on Saturday night after he allegedly assaulted a woman.
TMZ reports that the ‘Lost’ star was outside of a bar in Cleveland and tried to get on a party bus parked outside despite the fact that he wasn’t even a guest on it.
The woman, whose name is Heather Bormann, tried to block the actor from getting on the bus and then he snapped and punched her in the breast and stomach area.
Police were then called to the scene and they handcuffed Fox before releasing him to a friend, they never arrested him. The friend put him in a taxi and they went back to his hotel.
Bormann told police that she punched Fox back and hit him in the mouth which caused a cut on his lip, she also told police that she may have “broken her hand during the altercation.”
When TMZ contacted the woman she said that she was the driver for the party bus and when she told him he wasn’t allowed on it he was too drunk to understand. Here is what she says:
“He just kept staring at me with his mouth wide open and not saying anything. I told him, ‘You have to leave buddy. You are trespassing on my bus.’ He leaned in and started punching my crotch and breast. I took one hand to his jaw and he was spitting blood. He stumbled backwards. This was my self-defense, this was the only way I could protect myself…..from a man beating up on a woman.”
Police took an assault report and are currently investigating the incident while Bormann say she is meeting with prosecutors and might press charges against the actor.
The son of actor Ryan O’Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett, who was caught driving with illegal drugs and a handgun in Santa Monica earlier this month, pleaded no contest to charges of heroin and marijuana possession, as well as possession of a handgun, on Thursday.
He was subsequently sentenced to a year in a live-in rehabilitation program.
“Redmond is grateful for the opportunity to receive additional intensive treatment,” his lawyer, Richard Pintal, told Radar Online, which first reported the news.
Redmond was arrested on Aug. 2 in Santa Monica.
A spokesperson for the Santa Monica Police Department previously confirmed Redmond was pulled over at 8:45 AM on Aug. 2, for failing to stop at a red left turn arrow at Lincoln and Olympic.
Redmond was pulled over at the 600 block of Olympic Drive, not too far from the police department.
A motor officer determined O’Neal was on probation, and therefore he had consent to search him and the vehicle he was driving.
The officer found a controlled substance believed to be heroin in the car.
O’Neal has a history of drug problems. Previously, he was arrested for possession of heroin and methamphetamine and, in a separate incident, possession of methamphetamine.
Sad, really. I wonder if he will ever get his act together?
O’Neal is featured in the reality show Ryan and Tatum: The O’Neals, currently airing on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Actor Michael Showers, perhaps best known for his work as Captain John Guidry on the HBO series “Treme,” was found dead in the Mississippi River early Wednesday morning.
He was 45 years old.
A steamboat captain spotted him at around 11:15 a.m. in waters near New Orleans’ French Quarter and Harbor Police recovered the body about 30 minutes later, authorities told the Times-Picayune.
An autopsy will be performed to determine cause of death, but the chief investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner’s office estimated that Showers’ body had been in the water for two days.
The Times-Picayune identified Showers as being from Chalmette, a village in southeast Louisiana situated on the east bank of the Mississippi River.
In addition to Treme, Showers made appearances in Breaking Bad and The Vampire Diaries, and his movie credits include Traffic, I Love You Phillip Morris and The Tree of Life.
The media has barely had time to cool down since the recent outpouring of outrage for 10-year-old model Thylane Blondeau‘s suggestive French Vogue spread and, more recently, our discovery of Jours après Lunes, a lingerie line for young girls.
Already, another instance of an underage model being photographed in a questionable manner has caught the media’s attention. However, this time, it’s because the parents of said model are taking action.
Southern California girl Hailey Clauson — who has worked in New York and Paris for designers including Gucci, Donna Karan and Oscar de la Renta — claims the “blatantly salacious” shot has damaged her reputation and may even violate kiddie-porn laws.
Her parents are suing Urban Outfitters for selling merchandise printed with pictures of her taken last April when she was 15 that they feel are sexually suggestive. They are also suing the photographer, Jason Lee Perry and two other stores and seeking damages exceeding $28 million. What confuses us is that, according to the Daily News, “her parents knew about the photo session but did not give permission to use the pictures.”
The following are quotes from the lawsuit:
“She is posed in a blatantly salacious manner with her legs spread, without a bra, revealing portions of her breasts.
The image of Teen in a spread eagle position making her crotch area the focal point of the image may portray a child in a sexually suggestive manner and may be in violation of one or more federal and/or state laws.”
She is posed in a blatantly salacious manner with her legs spread, without a bra, revealing portions of her breasts.
The image of Teen in a spread eagle position making her crotch area the focal point of the image may portray a child in a sexually suggestive manner and may be in violation of one or more federal and/or state laws.
They are also concerned about pictures of her holding a beer and riding a motorcycle without a helmet.
“Real Housewives” husband Russell Armstrong may have committed suicide because his secret gay sex life was about to be exposed in a tell-all book.
“Not only was it going to come out that Russell was bisexual, but there were people on the record that were going to talk about the kind of sex he liked,” a source revealed. “He was into S&M-type stuff; choking, roughhousing and slapping.”
Russell’s estranged wife, Taylor, claimed she discovered Russell was frequenting a gay website on his computer and that he was using trips to the gym as an excuse to have homosexual trysts. An insider said, “He was spending a lot of time at the gym, but his body wasn’t changing, which she [Taylor] claims led her to believe he was meeting with men he’d met off the website and not spending time working out.”
Armstrong’s attorney, Ronald Richards, said there could be a larger book being made about all of the housewives that would maybe mention Russell. Richards told the NY Post, “I would have known if there was a book about Russell Armstrong, because he would have had me deal with it.”
Meanwhile, Radar also reports Russell was an abusive husband, reportedly sending Taylor to the hospital after hitting her a few weeks ago. The website says the reality husband had a dark and violent past, including paying off a dentist to keep quiet about a fight he had with an associate — who needed reconstructive mouth surgery after being punched by Armstrong.
Russell’s family blames the show for his death and is considering a suit against Bravo.
Armstrong was found Monday after he hanged himself in a bedroom of a friend’s L.A. home.
This whole thing is just getting out of control. Everyone needs to shut up and let Russell’s real family — Taylor and her daughter — grieve in peace.
French film actor Gerard Depardieu was caught short on a Paris to Dublin flight and chose not to bother going to the toilet before relieving himself, says airline CityJet.
“I will only confirm that he, in effect, urinated in the plane,” a spokeswoman for the Air France-KLM subsidiary said on Wednesday, confirming a report on Europe 1 radio, which interviewed a passenger who witnessed the incident.
According to the passenger, who was not named, the 62-year-old was visibly inebriated and tried to stand up before take-off, when passengers are asked to wear seatbelts, declaring: “I want to piss, I want to piss.”
When a stewardess asked him to sit and wait 15 minutes until the jet took off and reached cruising altitude, he said he could not wait. “And there and then he stood up and did it on the floor,” she told the French broadcaster.
“We could see he had been drinking. The stewardess was dumbfounded,” she added. “No-one said anything. It all happened with courtesy. Mr Depardieu sat back down and the plane returned to the parking area to be cleaned.”
Anderson Cooper could barely contain himself while talking about the incident.
For some odd reason, there is nothing as infectiously hilarious as watching someone try and fail to keep a straight face.
‘The Ridiculist‘ is the recurring segment on AC360 in which host Anderson Cooper reports on the sublimely absurd stories of the day.
