Sadly, the Roger Ebert and Bam Margera bitch fight did not end with one them beating the other in a fart mask duel. It ended with Roger Ebert writing on his website that he regrets that Bam Margera and others took his “friends don’t let jackasses drive drunk” Tweet as mean because that’s not how he meant it.
In case you were busy swallowing a gold fish before barfing it up in a bowl, shortly after Ryan Dunn killed himself and his friend by crashing into a tree, Roger wrote a Tweet that burned Bam’s b-hole. Bam called Roger a “piece of shit” who needs to “shut his fucking mouth.” Roger explained himself like this:
To begin with, I offer my sympathy to Ryan Dunn’s family and friends, and to those of Zachary Hartwell, who also died in the crash. I mean that sincerely. It is tragic to lose a loved one. I also regret that my tweet about the event was considered cruel. It was not intended as cruel. It was intended as true.
I have no way of knowing if Ryan Dunn was drunk at the time of his death. What I knew before posting my tweet was that not long before his death, he posted a photo on Tumbler showing himself drinking with two friends.
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Also in this Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: The Ides of March will debut in August… Guillermo del Toro is intrigued by Maleficent… Sylvester Stallone casts his daughter… and more ahead.
· The official cause of the car accident that killed Ryan Dunn and one other passenger has yet to be determined by Pennsylvania police — though one report suggests Dunn’s Porsche was travelling in excess of 100 MPH before the crash — but with rumors and photographic evidence of alcohol possibly being involved, Roger Ebert made his feelings known on Twitter. “Friends don’t let jackasses drive drunk,” he wrote shortly after the news broke. That caused quite a stir among Jackass fans, as well as Dunn’s friend, Bam Margera. “I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day and piece of shit roger ebert [sic] has the gall to put in his 2 cents [a]bout a jackass drunk driving and his is one, fuck you!” he wrote over the course of two tweets late Monday night. “Millions of people are crying right now, shut your fat fucking mouth!” Ebert has yet to return comment to Margera. [Huffington Post]
· In happier news: George Clooney’s latest directorial outing, The Ides of March, will open the Venice Film Festival at the end of August. Based on the play Farragut North by Beau Willimon, March stars Clooney as a presidential candidate, Ryan Gosling as his idealistic head of media, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman as his campaign manager. Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood are along for the ride as well. Fingers crossed this…
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