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Tell me that you want to be in the cell with this guy:
Batman star Christian Bale arrested by London police on suspicion of assault
By Nico Hines
Christian Bale, the actor who plays Batman, was arrested today for allegedly assaulting his own mother and sister before last night’s premiere of The Dark Knight.
The Welsh-born actor was in custody at a central London police station today being questioned over the incident which is thought to have taken place in his Dorchester Hotel suite on Sunday night.
Bale’s mother and sister, Jenny, 61, and Sharon, 40, made a formal complaint against the Hollywood actor yesterday.
The two women, who live in Dorset, went to a Hampshire police station to make their allegations. The complaint was then passed to the Metropolitan Police for further investigation.
A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said: “A 34-year-old man attended a Central London police station this morning and was arrested in connection with an allegation of assault. He currently remains in custody.”
Bale is alleged to have lashed out in his suite on Park Lane two days ago but police allowed him to attend the European premiere of the latest installment of the Batman films in Leicester Square last night. Bale, who also starred in American Psycho and Empire Of The Sun, joined co-stars Sir Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Aaron Eckhart on the red carpet.
This morning he voluntarily attended a police station in London, where he was arrested and questioned.
The new Batman film has already attracted a great deal of interest because it contains the final complete performance by Heath Ledger. The 28-year-old Australian actor gave an Oscar-tipped performance as The Joker before he died from an accidental drugs overdose in January.
(Via Times Online)
I’m totally sure that this is the kind of press that Warner Bros wants the film to attract, eh?
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There are only two reasons why “The Dark Knight” is such a huge box-office success.
1) Because Heath Ledger is dead and;
2) Because his performance as the Joker was outstanding.
If it were not for special effects, Christian Bale would have no career in the industry, like so many others.
Well, while I‘m not going to take a swing at Bale, it is sort of like what Chris Rock said back in 2005 when he hosted the Oscars (and why he’ll probably never be invited back), that Hollywood is a town of hundreds of celebrities and only a handful of stars.
The Perfessor
I love The Batman mythos, and am glad the movies have had a great run over the (now) decades.
However, The Batman as an ACTOR in his own story is pretty lame. Batman usually has a lot of ponderous important things to say, but can’t say them with much emotion. Why? Because he’s The Batman, of course. That stoicism is legendary. Bruce Wayne can be a bit different, but obviously not too different.
So, almost by definition, the audience will never get a stellar dramatic performance out of The Batman. In the last movie, we had the origin told to us, so we saw the most emotion out of The Batman that we’re ever going to see. It’s pretty much downhill from here.
Unless we introduce Robin… which will ramp up that all important sexual tension…
I can’t hear you! LaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLa!
The Perfessor
Whoa Whoa Whoa….
Since when did batman become british?
First of all, no one said
BailBale (or Batman) was British, He’s Welsh.Second, Great Britain is made up of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, so while we all like to think of only the only English as “British” so technically are the inhabitants of those other countries. (Just like we here in the U.S. consider ourselves as “Americans” so to can the inhabitants of Canada, Central and South America call themselves “Americans”).
The Perfessor
Ireland’s not part of Great Britain–that’s England, Scotland and Wales only. Northern Ireland is also part of the United Kingdom. Ireland is an entire country of its own.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain
OK, point taken, but still, no one called Christian Bale British, so I’m still a little bit baffled about that comment.
The Perfessor
All Welsh Men are British
All Scottish Men are British
British men are not all Scots
and Irish men are not all Brits
but that’s not to say they can’t be
Michael Keaton - american
Val Kilmer - american
George Clooney - american
Adam West - american
Christian Bale - not american
even Will Friedle is american
not that there is anything wrong about being british, just that it’s along way from california.
Mike, so that takes care of the men, what about the women of Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. I’ve seen Braveheart and understand the “King’s Right” rule that was exercised during The Empire phase of England’s rule.
The Perfessor
If Scottish men are British, how come they don’t speak English?
Ever see the film Snatched? Well, apparently the English don’t quite speak “English” either.
“England and America, two countries separated by the same language”
—George Bernard Shaw
The Perfessor