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This year, it looked like Cage had finally put the worst of his troubles behind him-and then we read GQ editor Jim Nelson's first-person account of the actor drunkenly harassing patrons in a New Orleans restaurant. Maybe that's why, despite his pair of Oscar nods, he continues to headline questionable stuff like Bangkok Dangerous and Season of the Witch. Thanks to an unreliable financial adviser and the not-inconsiderable cost of purchasing several homes around the world-including a possibly haunted mansion in New Orleans, a Caribbean island, and a rare dinosaur skull-the feds came after Cage in 2009 for owing millions in back taxes. In Cage's case, we suspect the motivation behind the sale of Action Comics #1-Superman's debut issue-wasn't exactly worth celebrating.
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You'd think selling a comic book for a record-breaking $2.1 million would be a good thing, as Nicolas Cage did last November. Follow our advice and break out of your work funk today. Keep those hands up, Jose.ĭon't wind up boxing has-beens for cash. That certainly doesn't bode well for Canseco's next rumored fight: Shaquille O'Neal. Nor did it help when he threw down in yet another ‘celebrity' boxing event against diminutive Eagles punt returner Vai Sikahema, who TKO'd Canseco in the opening minutes, despite Canseco's 7-inch and 40-pound size advantage. His reputation went on the DL following the publication of Juiced, his 2007 tell-all memoir that outed former teammates like Mark McGwire for steroid abuse. Canseco didn't exactly hit a home run in retirement, either.
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Though the fight never went down, it certainly seemed like bizarre company for a major league slugger who once earned upwards of $5 million a year. Know when you've hit rock bottom? Here's a hint: It could be when you've agreed to fight fellow washed-up all-star ballplayer Lenny Dykstra in a celebrity boxing match on FOX-all while sharing the fight card with pop culture luminaries like Octomom, Joey Buttafuoco, and Kato Kaelin (yeah, that Kato Kaelin). There's a reason he didn't make our Hottest Celebrity Couples of 2014 And if you don't have the cash to subscribe, don't worry there's a chance Kanye will randomly show up in your own life and regale you with a concert, as he did onboard a flight from Minneapolis to NYC when he took over the airplane intercom and performed two songs. The result: You can now subscribe to Kanye's life (only $4.99 a month!) and get webcam footage of Kanye, a list of what Kanye eats every day, and even a Kanye-centric documentary, simply titled Me. Take the borderline-surreal bon mots of his Twitter feed: “I make awesome decisions in bike stores!!!” or “Fur pillows are hard to actually sleep on.” While more and more celebrities realize that Twitter enables them to make idiotic comments before thinking through the consequences, Kanye zagged in the opposite direction, deciding his fans needed even more Kanye.
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Kanye, God bless him, turns his craziness into art. Makes the OSS film a real 'head-scratcher.Some people credit their art to their craziness. Two excellent films about the art of sabotauging trains. One derailment scene wiped out almost a half-million dollars worth of Panavision camera equipment, but the film was saved. Director Frankenheimer said that it was like someone had given him a very large full-scale set of Lionel trains to play with. The jolting crashes and derailments were filmed with French National Railways locomotives and equipment that were delegated to the 'scrapyard'. The director, John Frankenheimer was allowed to destroy the rail yard for the film, and after that, the railway company came in and relaid the tracks to a new configuration. The spectacular railroad yard bombing in THE TRAIN was supervised by Lee Zavits, a Hollywood special-effects expert (he burned Atlanta for GONE WITH THE WIND) with the co-operation of the French National Railways, who were going to re-lay the tracks in the yard outside of Paris. BATTAILE DU RAIL, like THE TRAIN, concerns itself with the 'details' of sabotauge, and is in itself a taut, terrific railroad film-it also features the derailment of an actual train hauling German tanks to the 'Front', which remains the most incredible train wreck I've ever seen captured on film-it goes on forever! To re-iterate, this superb film was also inspired by the Renee Clement 1945 French film LA BATTAILE DU RAIL, which is filmed in a semi-documentary style (portions of it during the German occupation) and concerns the efforts of the "Maquis"-French Resistance-to stop German rail traffic to the Normandy Front. Absolutely incredible excitement, and not a Hollywood 'model' in the film. I agree absolutely-THE TRAIN is one of the best, most exciting WWII dramas I've ever seen.