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Uh oh. Rip Torn got into some mildly hilarious trouble over the weekend. From the AP:
Actor Elmore “Rip” Torn has been charged with breaking into a Connecticut bank and carrying a loaded handgun while intoxicated.
State police say the 78-year-old Salisbury resident was arrested Friday night after police found him inside the Litchfield Bancorp with a loaded revolver.
Last year, Torn was given probation in a Connecticut drunken driving case and granted permission to enter an alcohol education program. He also has two previous drunken driving arrests in New York.
Alcoholism is a serious disease and nothing to smirk at or make fun of, BUT it is hard not to at least SMILE INWARDLY at the thought of Rip Torn sitting at home with a glass of scotch, surrounded by his collectors’ Men in Black memorabilia, lazily spinning a handgun on a tabletop until finally he just shrugs and says “Fuck it, I should rob a bank.” UH, WHAT? I hope that the courts have the humanity and the foresight to get Rip Torn the help that he needs before we end up with another Tom Sizemore highlighter-bandit on our hands.
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That’s so Rip.
I can’t help it. Because it’s Rip Torn, I’m gonna have to give him a pass.
Me too, but not for the drunk driving… I hope he at least walked to the bank (though I doubt it)
I was always under the belief that Rip’s body produces alcohol, so he can’t help it when he drives or robs banks.
Rip Torn on Larry Sanders Show = Lifetime Pass
All the Depression-era bank runs he lived still haunt him. Make your mistakes early in life, that’s what I say. For maximalizing street cred, most felonies should be committed pre-geriatric.
But, said to the actor who waited until he was 60 to get famous…. you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
you are honestly crazy for this one, Rip.
He was just doing research for a role. Patches O’Houlihan returns for 2Dodge2Ball.
Rip Torn Smashed Lacerated Cracked Broke Bank Window
from Rip’s IMDB page (you can’t make this stuff up) http://bit.ly/9mCS9w
Sounds a lot like my weekend except instead of jail I was sent to my couch to watch the Grammys as punishment.
You senile for this one, Rip!
“Permission” to enter an alcohol education (BORING!) program? “Given permission”? Like anyone would want to go learn about alcohol? You DRINK it, you don’t “get educated” about it.
[Rip Torn enters jail]
POLICE: Let’s put it on.
RIP: Put what on?
POLICE: The last suit you’ll ever wear.
i was reading the AP article yesterday and sort of stumbled over this part: ” the 78-year-old ‘Men in Black’ star” – is that REALLY what we know him for best? baby monsters are going to think Tommy Lee really let himself go.
Jones! Tommy Lee Jones.
Turns out he WAS hosting an intergalactic kegger.
Salisbury High Stakes starring Rip Torn
My Dad always told me, “If you try, you win!” And he was one hell of a garbage man. -Don Geiss
If you can rob a bank, you can dodge a ball.
Does this mean he won’t be on 30 Rock anymore? Because, really, that is my main concern.
I can smell that mugshot through the internet
I’ve been trying to think of a Larry Sanders joke but I only got as far as “something something salty dogs.” So I’ll just take this opportunity to whine that comcast took Larry Sanders off ondemand, and that it sucks, and that Rip was probably just upset about that. Wait! Was that a joke?(No.)
“Have a salty dog. Drink it, you pussy!”
Rip Torn is seriously the best, but it’s sad to think the Dodgeball folks cleaned up his look to play Patches O’Houlihan.
Connecticut does deserve a better class of criminal! For instance, a homicidal domesticated monkey, or maybe a crazy janitor who can’t stand the way you treat the laboratory mice!
Late bloomer, this guy.
I mean really, wouldn’t any of us do that? And by *that* I mean drunk off our ass in a bank with a gun. You pretty much HAVE to rob the bank at that point.
Um, so has everyone seen that footage of Rip trying to KILL Norman Mailer?! “For the picture, baby”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AzmhorISf4
Don’t look into his eyes.
Thanks for this clip – for reals…
They could really use some better criminals like this one
Complete with context sensitive advertising that amuses me to death
Rip Torn is your grandpa.
I liked this mugshot better when Nick Nolte did it.
No one else is laughing at “Elmore?” I mean, sure it was a popular name in the twenties or whatever, but ELMORE!? LOL! Oh…Please don’t old your way into my house with a gun ‘Rip’ I don’t mean to laugh.
hee hee.
Wait a second – how did a drunk man ‘break in’ to a bank, at night? Now, I am no security specialist but I am assuming something was locked somewhere that would have at least hindered entry into the heart of the establishment? Or does Connecticut offer a progressive open door policy for its branches after core banking hours? Help me understand.
kinda sad
On the one hand this another case of a sad bastard hollywood failure story. On there other hand this is hilarious! Man…I am so Torn about this…
Connecticut doesn’t deserve a better class of ANYTHING because: Joe Lieberman.