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US actor Rip Torn has been released on bail and will enter rehab after his arrest for breaking into a bank in Connecticut while armed with a gun.
A court heard Men In Black star Torn, 78, was allegedly so intoxicated that he believed he was at home and had left his hat and boots by the door.
He was arrested on Friday night after he was found inside the Litchfield Bancorp bank with a loaded revolver.
Torn was charged with burglary, criminal trespass and weapons offenses.
He did not enter a plea and was released on $100,000 (£62,688) bail and will be required to undergo alcohol rehabilitation.
The gravelly-voiced actor was born Elmore Rual Torn in 1931.
A cousin of US actress Sissy Spacek, he was nominated for an Oscar in 1984 for his role in Cross Creek, a biopic of The Yearling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
He also won an Emmy for The Larry Sanders Show in 1992, and most recently appeared in US sitcom 30 Rock as television boss Don Geiss.
Last year, Torn was given probation in a drink-driving case in Connecticut and granted permission to enter an alcohol education programme.
He also has two previous drink driving arrests in New York, one of which became notorious after a video emerged of the actor cursing at police officers and refusing to take a sobriety test.
US actor Rip Torn has been released on bail and will enter rehab after his arrest for breaking into a bank in Connecticut while armed with a gun.
A court heard Men In Black star Torn, 78, was allegedly so intoxicated that he believed he was at home and had left his hat and boots by the door.
He was arrested on Friday night after he was found inside the Litchfield Bancorp bank with a loaded revolver.
Torn was charged with burglary, criminal trespass and weapons offenses.
He did not enter a plea and was released on $100,000 (£62,688) bail and will be required to undergo alcohol rehabilitation.
The gravelly-voiced actor was born Elmore Rual Torn in 1931.
A cousin of US actress Sissy Spacek, he was nominated for an Oscar in 1984 for his role in Cross Creek, a biopic of The Yearling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
He also won an Emmy for The Larry Sanders Show in 1992, and most recently appeared in US sitcom 30 Rock as television boss Don Geiss.
Last year, Torn was given probation in a drink-driving case in Connecticut and granted permission to enter an alcohol education programme.
He also has two previous drink driving arrests in New York, one of which became notorious after a video emerged of the actor cursing at police officers and refusing to take a sobriety test.
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He is 78 and they want him to go on a alcohol awareness course ffs what's he gonna learn ?
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brilliant in freddie got fingered
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Was foing to say the same thing Money
Go on f my ass, go on! |
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Rip was a must-watch on The Larry Sanders Show (which Gervaise nicked for the execrable Extras.)
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only knew him from Larry Saunders.
looked the sort would have already beaten those demons. i liked him and wish him the best |
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He's not going out quietly is he ?
Larry Sanders Show was pure genius. The wife used to look totally perplexed at my adoration of this show. |
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Yes....I liked it ....and The Gary Shandling Show....
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liked it alot....should say...
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awesome on Larry Sanders
just for that alone, he can do whatever he wants |
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so intoxicated that he believed he was at home and had left his hat and boots by the door.
:^0 pmsl |
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Hank was the getaway driver
"Hey Now" |
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78, i,m 53 can understand it, way it goes.......
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The episode with Hank's sex tape is an all time classic
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brilliant in freddie got fingered
:^0 brilliant he was |
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Larry S is the greatest comedy show ever. I feel guilty about Phil Silvers mind you.
Dennis Hopper (soon to be the late DH ) attacked Rip with a knife. No fckg bother....... Hopper soon regreeted his folly. |
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just read about it
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what happened
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Never heard of him.
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I had forgotten all about this....worrying
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THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ALCOHOL CONTROLLS YOU ,ITS A VERY POWERFULL DRUG THATS CHANGES YOUR MIND ,YES I AM A RECOVERING ALCOHOLIC ,AND EVEN AFTER ALL THE DAMAGE ITS DONE TO ME ,I WOULD STILL DRINK IT IF I THOUGHT I COULD GETAWAY WITH IT ,THATS HOW POWERFULL IT IS ,ALL THE DAMAGE ITS DONE TO ME IN MY LIFE AND I WOULD STILL DRINK IT ,IF I THOUGHT I COULD TAKE ANOTHER DRINK AND NOT END UP MENTALLY ILL WITH IT ,,
THATS FROM DO WAH DIDDY WHO STARTED OFF AS THE SHANDY KIDD,AND ENDED UP CONTROLLED BY ALCOHOL,IT CONTROLLS YOU IN THE END YOU DONT CONTROLL IT |
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I WISH YOUD FUC C OF DO WAH DIDDY ,YOUR JUST ANOTHER RECOVERING ALCOHOLIC,
YES BUT IM A NICE ONE |
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WELL SOME OF THE TIME I AM
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Rip Torn has been brilliant in everything I've seen him in. The aforementioned Larry Sanders, Freddy Got Fingered, also Dodgeball - 'It's like watching a bunch of retards trying to f*ck a doorknob'. His delivery of such lines was always pitch perfect.
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Hardly Oscar material though.
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hope he's behaving himself these days.
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I didn't know till just now.
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