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01-30-2010, 10:44 PM
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Rip Torn - alledged bank robber?
wah wah whaaatt?
this is sad, I've always liked this guy as an actor. But what the hell?
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Actor Rip Torn arrested, charged with breaking into local bank with loaded gun
SALISBURY - Actor Elmore "Rip" Torn was arrested Friday night for allegedly breaking into a Main Street bank intoxicated, armed with a loaded revolver.
Torn allegedly forced entry into a Litchfield Bancorp building, at 326 Main St., setting off an alarm, state police from the Troop B barracks in North Canaan said today. When police responded to the alarm around 9:40 p.m. they found Torn "with a loaded revolver and was highly intoxicated," according to a police news release.
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01-30-2010, 10:48 PM
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He is one of the few brilliant actors that can win awards for his portrayals of himself off-screen. A great character that happens to be an actor, not a great character actor as some suggest.
Not to condone Torn's antics or anything - he is just almost too bizarre to believe.
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01-30-2010, 11:56 PM
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Very strange indeed. Even at age 78 he is very much a working actor.
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01-31-2010, 12:32 AM
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What a shame. Decent enough actor but clearly riddled with a dire need for help. With this, he'll do time.
Sloppy drunks have always been trouble.
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01-31-2010, 02:46 AM
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I always thought that the guy who thought up that name learned a thing or two from the old NFL player Fair Hooker.
Geraldine Page is/was a great actress. Just saw Sweet Bird of Youth again the other night
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01-31-2010, 03:10 AM
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wasn't that guy in some of those early ntra ads??
go baby go!! 
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01-31-2010, 03:13 AM
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one good thing I guess.....
somewhere Tiger Woods is saying "FINALLY!"
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01-31-2010, 03:22 AM
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Originally Posted by superfecta
somewhere Tiger Woods is saying "FINALLY!"
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Its gonna take more than Rip gettin ripped and rollin into a bank with gun to knock Tiger out of the top spot. Tiger needs a Paris Hilton/P Diddy/Peyton Manning caliber scandal to dethrone him. Maybe another baseball icon of the last 15yrs will get retro-nabbed for steroids. That may do it.
As for Rip, I'm thinkin like bigmack posted earlier, he's going to jail. Dont care how old or famous or drunk your are, that stunt aint tolerated mister.
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01-31-2010, 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by 46zilzal
I always thought that the guy who thought up that name learned a thing or two from the old NFL player Fair Hooker.
Geraldine Page is/was a great actress. Just saw Sweet Bird of Youth again the other night
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I agree, she only has a few scenes in The Pope of Greenwich Village but her character jumps off the screen. She even does some handicapping. She has a great line in that one where she is talking to some police officers after her son dies. something like "My son was as tough as a rod of iron, and he didn't get that from his father. So you can get the hell out of my house!"
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01-31-2010, 02:12 PM
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Shhh. Dillinger. Bonnie & Clyde. Ma Barker! Whispering about Bank Jobs that they'd won...Can you hear it?...You hear it?
Dang, I always enjoyed him and his work. And those commercials. I even brought some plastic Easter Grass to the track one day and cracked my friends up one day at Hawthorne by coming up to them and doing that routine with the clump of turf and the Man Of War, Seabiscuit routine, asking them to listen to that plastic grass!
(Yes, they had it Man Of War, not Man O' War, in the commercials, an error.)
Last edited by Steve 'StatMan'; 01-31-2010 at 02:16 PM.
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01-31-2010, 02:31 PM
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President of the bank he broke into calls for an intervention for Torn. Turns out he thought he was in his own house after breaking the window. When cops arrived they found him asleep on the floor.
This from a previous incident:
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01-31-2010, 02:45 PM
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Glad to see the update, Bigmack. Thanks.
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01-31-2010, 03:05 PM
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78 is awfully late to shoot for any big life changes.
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01-31-2010, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by bigmack
President of the bank he broke into calls for an intervention for Torn. Turns out he thought he was in his own house after breaking the window. When cops arrived they found him asleep on the floor.
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Glad they want to work with him. Still pretty disturbing that this guy is walking around with a loaded handgun while that extremely drunk that he mistakes a bank for his own house. (unless Rip has one hell of a house, or both have crummy looking houses and banks.)
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01-31-2010, 03:18 PM
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Guys, has he been diagnosed with dementia?
78, drunk, holding a handgun, and he don't know where he's at?
He really could be "just comfortably demented", ya know.
It would sure clear some things up on the incident report.
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