Rip Torn Savagely Beating Norman Mailer: a Retrospective

We didn’t touch upon Rip Torn‘s arrest this past weekend for allegedly breaking into a bank while drunk and armed with a pistol. Let’s face it: you don’t want to get Agent Zed and/or the voice of Zeus in Disney’s Hercules on your bad side.

But when we rewatched this video of Rip Torn getting into a savage, unscripted brawl with author and hellion Norman Mailer (RIP) on the set of Maidstone after whacking Mailer in the head with a hammer, we had to share:

An aside: who’d’ve ever thought that Rip Torn would ever be #2 on Bing’s xRank celebrity tracker?*

(h/t Bits and Pieces)

*Yes, they are currently sponsoring us, but we found this genuinely interesting on its own merits.