Christian Bale, calm mild mannered star of such amazing films such as ‘Batman: The Dark Knight’ and ‘American Psycho’ has lost it.
And who can blame him? Well, I guess he could look here.
Oh well.
Actors are pretty melodramatic individuals, it doesn’t take much for them to go off on one. But there are so many ‘temper’ moments on YouTube that I can’t help putting a few links up here.
I have to say that in my top ten of temper tantrums would look something like this.
10. Phil Hellmuth loses it on Full Tilt Poker.
Phil Hellmuth is one of the best professional hold ‘em poker players around. He’s won more bracelets then pretty much anybody, has written oodles of books and has a degree of notoriety around poker tables throughout the world. Unforgivably dubbed the ‘poker brat’ it’s clear that he’s not lost any of that fire!
9. William F Buckley v. Gore Vidal
This was a classic clash of political theology at the 1968 democratic convention in Chicago. It all sparked off after Vidal calls Buckley a ‘crypto-nazi’ and so starts years of animosity between these respected political commentators. Although I could happily go in to the whole subject, that’d be a digression like never before. Instead all I will say is that the two were not exactly harmonious for decades after this altercation. Although no fists fly, this clip sums up the divisive and emotive nature that took hold of the population at the time of the Vietnam War.
8. Tyra banks loses it on Americas Top Model
I didn’t really understand why Tyra Banks went off on one, she reminds me a very angry yorkshire terrier, what with the hair and the jaws.
I would love to see Lisa thingy do this on the UK version. Although it is really comedy, she does have a point.
Plus she does the wobbly side to side head thing which cracks me up.
7. Nikki Grahame, do I say anymore?
Not being the worlds biggest BB fan, I can just about recall this amazing entity as being possibly the stroppiest person I have ever watched. I start to wonder if it was all an act? Was it a complex device of psychological mind alteration, designed to make the public apathetic to screaming children, result being that we would be more subservient and deferrant in our ways when we grew up, so resulting in ideal conditions for aliens to take over the world? Or was she just a spoilt shreaking weirdo? You decide.
I remember this, it was just, well… comedy. There have been some better fights since but this was the first really serious one where they had to call the police and have investigations and stuff. Oh it was amazing, this wasn’t as bad as a later fight where Emma and another one burst out of a cake. It was brilliant, pure comedy.
I’m not sure what to say about this as it is simply undescribable, there is no reason behind it, just the pure carnal animal growling. Irrational comedy gold.
5. Charles (Chuck, Hank) Bukowski loses his temper at his fiancee
These films were part of a cult documentary by Barbet Schroeder, a French film maker, who collated a series of short interviews with the Los Angeles based writer in 1989.
Before you judge Bukowski, bear in mind that he was an amazing writer who wrote prolific amounts of material. His poetry was crude but sentimental, his writings about Los Angeles and the people around him inspired artists and writers all over the world. Also read this and visit this site. I defend him as a writer, but not his actions here. You can’t justify what he does here.
I have included the two whole tapes, but there are shorter versions available.
4. Bill O’Reilly goes ever so psycho over Sting.
This is a classic as the legendary Fox anchorman just loses it in spectacular fashion over a malfunctioning autocue. The man is a bit of a right wing nut, so bear that in mind.
3. John Sweeney loses it on BBC Panorama: Scientology and me.
How do you crack a highly respected BBC journalist? You harass him and stalk the crew whilst they are trying to make a documentary. But let this be a lesson to anyone that tries to make a documentary about scientology, you will have a tough time.
Credit for the crew for trying to do this, but as the power of scientology has demonstrated, they have the resources to make life very difficult for anyone that tries to ‘expose’ them. And here is the result. John Sweeney famously lost it after the press officer or someone similiar picks an argument. I am not going to comment because both sides are saying different things, and I wasn’t there. Just goes to show how dangerous the camera is.
This is an amazing spoof. But it only goes to show that actors can be incredibly melodramatic, tempremental and incredibly passionate about their craft so God help anyone that fucks it up.
1. Don’t throw paperclips at your co workers!
My all time favourite public meltdown has to be this one. Don’t know where it’s from, who they are and a scant idea about what was happening, but it’s a good idea not to throw anything..at anyone!
There are others out there too such as this
