Christian Bale must be blushing (again) when Auntie Beeb does an oopsie

You just have to chuckle, but I can also imagine some red faces -- and Christian Bale must be among them. Check this out:

BBC Breakfast has avoided censure by Ofcom after it quickly apologised for broadcasting an unedited version of Christian Bale's foul-mouthed tirade on a film set.

On 16 February, the BBC One breakfast news show featured part of the sound-clip in which Bale is heard losing his temper with a member of the film crew.

After introducing the Bale item, the word "fucking" was heard almost immediately.

The clip was stopped and the presenters apologised stating that the clip should have been edited.
The Ofcom code states that "most offensive language must not be broadcast before the watershed".

The BBC explained to Ofcom that two versions of the Bale rant item existed in its production database – one containing the most offensive language and one with this language bleeped out for transmission.

Apparently the original unedited version was played by mistake because the two different versions were not clearly labelled.

Ofcom said it considered the matter adequately resolved in view of the broadcaster's swift action to stop the clip and apologise for offence to viewers.
(From http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=43399&c=1)

Nice one, Auntie.

The problem is, Christian Bale might never live this down!




Along the same lines ... but it's a very, very safe bet that it's a clever publicity stunt ... is Gary Oldman's absolutely hilarious tirade ostensibly aimed at a bunch of TV or magazine journalists who appear to be pursuing/harassing him. It's all about a movie that must need some advertising -- because this is just about the best kind of advertising it could get. God knows, even I want to see it now, to figure out what the brewhaha is about! Have a butcher's at this:



I laughed and laughed. And I'm honestly curious to know what the heck The Perfect Sleep is all about. Good one, guys: the advertising worked ... and you got the Internet to spread it "virally" for nothing, right?! Glad to help.

Christian Bale: the nice guy is back

Many, many people will be incredibly pleased to read this, which just popped up on Cnn.com, under their Entertainment tab:

Bale apologizes for 'Terminator' tantrum

It's a very good interview -- a great interview, even, in which the nice guy shows through, and the issues are handled with elegance and aplomb. Here's a quote:

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Christian Bale wants everyone to make fun of him for his profanity-filled tirade against a crew member on the set of "Terminator: Salvation."

Christian Bale said he was "way out of order" with his tirade during "Terminator: Salvation" filming.

"I deserve it completely," Bale told the hosts of a Los Angeles radio show Friday.

In a phone call to KROQ-FM's "Kevin and Bean" show, Bale apologized for the rant last July against Shane Hurlbut, the movie's director of photography, which was captured on a much-distributed audio recording.

"I was out of order beyond belief," Bale said. "I was way out of order. I acted like a punk. I regret that."

Bale said that although he has been able to laugh at the jokes, "it's been a miserable week for me."

"There is nobody that has heard that tape that is hit harder by it than me," he said. "I make no excuses for it. It is inexcusable."

Take a moment out to go there and read the whole thing:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/06/bale.apology/index.html

Nice one, Christian. Now, let's hope people will drop the whole thing and drive on. Let's get to brass tacks here: would Russell Crowe have been content with shouting and cussing?! He'd probably have wrapped a phone around the director of photography's neck ...! (Sorry, Russell. We love you, man, but I couldn't resist that one.)


Welcome back, Mr. Nice Guy!

Christian Bale: rude, yes, but -- right or wrong?

Further to the "Bale Out" stories yesterday ... got a good one for you here. Christain Bale must be wondering where it's all going to end!

Now, Steve Martin's gotten hold of it, and -- well, see this for yourself! You're not going to hear the F word at all, but good golly, the guy doing the beep noises must've drawn overtime pay on this one:

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Very kewl, that!

Turns out, CB said the F word 35 times in his four minute audio romp. Yep -- somebody with way too much time on ehis hands actually sat down and counted them. CB himself doesn't see to have made a response (yet), but this is interesting: Web goes psycho over Christian Bale going psycho ... it's interesting because not only does it show how everyone in earshot or web-shot has been chewing large chunks out of CB, but there's also at least one pro voice in Hollywood racing to his defence:

"I know the guy who pissed him off"

Butch Kaplan has worked as a Hollywood producer for over twenty years. His most recent films are "Babylon A.D.", "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" and "The Patriot".

This was nothing that we haven't seen before, and in this case, the actor was completely right, and I'm not surprised to hear what happened. He's what we call in the industry a 'tweeker'. It's people who are very insecure about what they're doing that they constantly need to 'tweek' things.

A lot of actors have a hard time getting into the place of the character. You're trying to make it real, you're having a really deep moment, and then there's this guy, tweeking the lights. It's as if he's saying 'what I'm doing is more important than what you're doing - it's all about the lighting'. What Bale said was rude, but what Hurlbut did was so disrespectful. And the funny thing about this, is that Bale was more right than 95% of actors who pull this stuff. Not only actors, but producers, directors. Sometimes they even get into punch-ups, and most of the time they at least storm off set and refuse to come out of their trailer. The people who act up the most actually have the most power; a little tantrum earns you respect here.

However in this case it wasn't a power trip, it was a true explosion of frustration. A case of 'I'm trying to do my job and you're totally screwing me over'."



So there you go -- the jury will now retire to deliberate the evidence!

Christian Bale: Open mouth, insert foot. Uh ... both feet.

You have to admit, for several minutes on the set of Terminator: Salvation, Christian Bale only opened his mouth to change feet.

As tirades go, it's a doozey. In case you haven't heart it ... well, be aware you're going to hear the F word ... oooooh, a lot. Seems old CB only knows one curse word, so as well as working on his people skills, he also needs to learn how to cuss properly! One word gets ... repetitive after a wile. Anyway --

You've been forewarned, right? So here goes:



Naturally, the Internet being the Internet, it wasn't long before it was uploaded and everybody in the world had heard it. By the time I listened in (and laughed my head off) it'd already been downloaded 700,000 times. I was #700,001.

Now it gets better. Some folks are really, I mean really creative. There's this one previously unknown music producer who works under the trade name of DJ Revolucion (probably because man's real name is Lucian Piane, which sounds like a librarian in hornrimmed eyeglasse). I say previously unknown, because this guy is probably the best-known music producer in the world, 24 hours later ... after he remixed the four-minute tirade into a rap-crap dance track.

Not only that, but more people are getting more creative:



I'll tell you what, you'd get a real workout, dancing to that.

Want more? There's more. You're not going to get a workout with this one -- but after the previous clip, you're probably sweating bullets and chugging Gatorade anyway, so -- take care not to inhale the Gatorade as you listen to ...

The CHIPMUNK REMIX of Christian's tirade. Seriously. Get this:



Oh, boy.

It's not that we don't appreciate the man's skills as an actor. As an actor, he's FANTASTIC. He just needs to work on his people skills ... and his cussing skills, come to think of it.

Want the full story? Here's some links to follow:
Christian Bale's rant remixed as dance song
and
You Can Now Dance To The Sound Of Christian Bale’s Fury

...enjoy!

Update on this: Steve Martin geta a-hold of the routine, and...! http://ariciasalbum.blogspot.com/2009/02/christian-bale-rude-yes-but-right-or.html