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APR
18
Nic Cage Arrested for Domestic Violence
Added 13 years agoSource: The Blemish
Nic Cage Arrested for Domestic Violence
Nicolas Cage and his hair were arrested for domestic violence on Saturday morning after New Orleans police found him “heavily intoxicated” and arguing with his wife Alice Kim. The two were arguing over which apartment they were staying at. Nic said it was the one they were in front of. It wasn’t.

Sometime after, Cage started grabbing Kim’s arm and hitting cars before taunting a cop. He was arrested after refusing to get out of a taxi when asked by the police. In the end, he was booked and charged with domestic abuse, disturbing the peace and public drunkeness.

Witnesses say before he was arrested, Cage was in a tattoo parlor throwing his clothes around and demanding a tattoo. He told the employees to call the cops. Asked why, he said he didn’t remember where he lived.

I think observing a drunk Nic Cage would be amazing because he’d be acting like does in the freak out video below but with ten times the enthusiasm. If that were possible. Also, there’d be a lot of hair flipping and if Willow Smith has taught anything, hair flipping is awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP1-oquwoL8

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APR
16
Nicolas Cage was arrested for domestic abuse, being a drunk dumbass
Added 13 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Nicolas Cage was arrested for domestic abuse, being a   drunk dumbass
I used to think Nicolas Cage was kind of interesting, in a ?He sold his soul to the Devil (Bruckheimer) but he?s still kind of damaged and hot? way. Then he got hair plugs and starting buying lots of bizarre stuff and he married a teenager. I still believe the dude is damaged, but his hotness is nil and what I thought was simply a bizarre ?streak? is just his train wreck personality. I guess what I?m saying is that this news doesn?t surprise me: early this morning (Saturday), Nicolas was arrested in New Orleans. Nic and his wife Alice have a home in NOLA, but he was arrested on the street, somewhere in town. He was arrested for one count of domestic abuse and count of disturbing the peace. Do you know how completely off-your-head drunk you have to be to be arrested for disturbing the peace in New Orleans? Like, Nicolas must have been blitzed out of his mind. Here?s what went down:

Sources close to Nicolas Cage tell TMZ … Nic was arrested in New Orleans this morning after daring the police to arrest him following a loud argument with his wife.

Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ … Nic was “very drunk” on the streets of N.O. when a cab driver saw him loudly arguing with his wife Alice.

We’re told the cabbie called the police and said in addition to the screaming and yelling … he saw Nic grab her.

We’re told the police came and told Nic and his wife to just go home. That’s when Nic allegedly told cops, “Why don’t you just arrest me?” The cops then reiterated that he and his wife should just go home. Cage then repeated his dare to cops.

At that point, police took Nic into custody and charged him with …domestic abuse and disturbing the peace.

Our sources say Nic is still in custody and a bail hearing will he held shortly.

We’re also told Nic’s wife is not a complaining witness and does not want him charged — and says there was no physical contact.

UPDATE 10:27 AM PT — A bond has been set at $11,000.

[From TMZ]

Yeah, it doesn?t really sound like he ?beat? Alice, only that he grabbed her, perhaps with some force. I?m not saying it?s any better or worse, but it is different. I?m not a wife-beating apologist (I hope you guys know me by now enough to say that I am definitely not), but right now it just sounds like a pretty typical argument between two really drunk people. My guess is that the abuse charge will be dropped and Nic will end up just being charged with disturbing the peace or whatever.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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JAN
5
Nicolas Cage Premieres "Season of the Witch"
Added 13 years agoSource: Celebrity Gossip
Nicolas Cage Premieres
Tending to red carpet duties for his soon-to-be-released movie, Nicolas Cage was on-hand for Relativity Media's premiere of "Season of the Witch" in New York City on Tuesday night (January 4).

Held at AMC Lincoln Square Theater, the Oscar winning actor was joined at the event by fellow cast members including Robert Sheehan, Stephen Campbell Moore, Claire Foy and Ron Perlman.

Due out in theaters on Friday (January 4), the Dominic Sena directed work finds "14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce her powers could be the source of the Black Plague."

Denying that he took the role only to pay off reported multi-million dollar debt, Cage recently told USA Today, "(Season) I needed to do more than (for) necessity reasons, but because I genuinely connected with the ... material. But there's always that other element too, you know, as a result of what has happened that has been made very public."

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DEC
14
Nicolas Cage's Rage in Romania
Added 13 years agoSource: Celebrity Gossip
Nicolas Cage's Rage in Romania
It?s no secret that celebrities are prone to freak-outs but Nicolas Cage showed a whole new side of his temper while in Romania.

The ?Snake Eyes? actor was leaving a club with a friend when all of a sudden they started to shout at each other.

Of course, Cage was the most dramatic, yelling things like, ?I thought we were brothers, man!? and ?I?ll die in the name of honor!?

Nicolas was in Romania filming ?Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance,? so perhaps he was irritable from the long days on the set.

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OCT
19
Nicolas Cage is badass, balding & cheesy in 'Drive Angry 3D' trailer
Added 14 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Nicolas Cage is badass, balding & cheesy in 'Drive Angry 3D' trailer
I?m kind of overdosing on fashion at the moment, so I took a break to watch the new trailer for Nicolas Cage?s latest movie, Drive Angry 3D. Um? it?s no secret that Nick is hurting for money right now, and that he - much like John Malkovich - is basically saying ?yes? to every script that gets sent his way. I get that. But I also get that Nick probably would have said ?yes? to this junk even if he didn?t need the money, just because Nick has surprisingly horrible taste in scripts. This one looks absolutely hideous. It goes beyond violence porn. This is an orgy of dumb destruction just for the hell of it. And Nick is bringing down two solid character actors with him: William Fichtner and Billy Burke. Sigh? this sucks so hard, it?s almost funny:

Was Nicolas Cage?s turn as a homicidal, drug-addled, lizard-imagining crooked cop with a heart of gold in Bad Lieutenant just a touch too realistic for you? Well, here comes Drive Angry 3D, and what may be the batshit craziest Nicolas Cage character in a long, proud history of batsh-t crazy Nicolas Cage characters. Our hero plays a muscle-car enthusiast who has to escape hell (literally!) in order to save his infant granddaughter from a villainous cult, and the movie?s new trailer is just chock-full of explosions, creative murders, terrible-on-purpose one-liners, wobbly Matrix-like supernatural visual effects, and all other manners of WTF moments. Does it feel really contrived, like a couple of well-connected producers ? after staying up all night drinking soju and watching Wild at Heart over and over again ? decided they absolutely had to make a movie where Nicolas Cage pushes his nutso persona to its absolute breaking point, and then worked backward from there? Absolutely! But is that so wrong?

[From New York Magazine]

Seriously, who thinks of this sh-t? What is the pitch? ?A man leaves hell to save his granddaughter only to be trailed by one of Satan?s minions, all whilst uttering cheese-tastic lines? Oh, Nick. How the not-so-mighty have fallen even further.

Cage at Comic-Con in July, promoting this film. Credit: WENN.

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SEP
1
Nicolas Cage Fixes Up Financial Woes
Added 14 years agoSource: Celebrity Gossip
Nicolas Cage Fixes Up Financial Woes
After months of battling his accountant in court, Nicolas Cage has finally settled the lawsuit with Sam Levin.

According to reports, the ?Raising Arizona? actor accused Levin of making poor investments on his behalf, which cost him millions of dollars and put him $14 millions in tax debt.

On the contrary, in his countersuit, Levin claimed Nic was a spendthrift who bought $33 million worth of homes and 22 cars, including 9 Rolls-Royces.

No word at this time about any specific details of the outcome, but a source has said that Cage is happy the situation is resolved.

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APR
5
What is going on with Nicolas Cage's hair (plugs)'
Added 14 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
What is going on with Nicolas Cage's hair (plugs)'
Call me crazy, but I don?t hate Nicolas Cage. I actually like him a lot, even though I think he prostituted his tremendous talent to make too many inane movies with insane paychecks, and then topped it off by blowing those insane paychecks on ?luxury items? like a dozen homes and properties (including a castle in Germany!), 50 cars, more than a dozen motorcycles, exotic animals, dinosaur bones and, of course, for the man who has everything, shrunken heads. Sigh? remember when everyone was like ?Nic Cage is the sex?? No? It was a while ago. I was a kid, but he really did used to be the sex.

Anyway, time passes, talent gets prostituted, and shrunken heads need to bought and displayed. And in that time between ?Nic Cage is the sex? and ?Nic Cage is a really strange dude who loves his dinosaur skull,? Nic?s hairline started doing some strange things. Dude had a monster receding hairline for a while, and then it started to ?grow back?. It looked rather painful, actually - like Nic got some really cheap plugs. Then he was wearing wigs and hairpieces for a while, and now we have this - these photos are of Nic at a WonderCon press conference on Sunday to promote his role in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. What?s going on with his hair? Did the plugs ?fill out?? Is this a hairpiece? Are the sides shaved? Are those dredlocks? I don?t know. But is it just me, or does Nic look okay? Sure, he looks like he?s in the midst of a midlife crisis, but the blonde hair and the whatever looks okay.

Meanwhile, Nic has Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans coming out soon, in which he plays a cop ?overmodulated with painkillers, drugs, and sleep deprivation, Cage’s oddest flourishes become soul-baring character development, and his behavior a kind of poetry? according to Cinematical. Nic recently sat down for an interview with Cinematical:

Nic on playing a character that is on so many drugs: ?Well, actually quite a bit of thought did go in to that. It was something that I graphed out in terms of what substance he was on, because clearly if he was on coke it would be different tics and rhythms to the speech that might be quicker or louder, maybe more sprawling. There would be more feelings of invincibility. But then when he was on something like heroin, it naturally would start to slow down and become much more methodical. So I would graph out where he was in the scene, in the trajectory of the character, but at the same time it would also be an extended length of time when he hadn’t slept and was on coke. So I had known people in my past, if they didn’t sleep for three days and were on coke, sometimes their voice would go up there [into their nose] and they would start talking like that ? they would hear it in their nose. So that’s where I would go in that direction. But when you say things like “for weirdness’ sake,” I guess I would ask that you consider for a moment that I’m a fan of abstract style or abstract art. But being that I’m my own instrument, if a film actor wants to get abstract, it’s considered crazy or weird, but if a painter gets abstract, he’s not crazy, it’s just the artist is crazy ? or it is what it is. It’s a certain style or a certain sound that I find interesting, like I like jazz music or what Miles Davis did with jazz music specifically, so when I think about it in those terms, well I’m like, I do believe in art synthesis, but how can you do that with film acting? So I guess I’m just trying to open things up, find new sounds and look for new gesture and form in film acting, and that’s going to inevitably be met with confusion or assumptions, or enjoyment; it depends on however people choose to receive it, or if it’s to their tastes, or not, but I know that it is something that I respond to and it’s organic to me so that’s what I have to do.

Are you surprised when you watch your films when they’re completed, seeing how individual ideas you’ve tried came together to create something different than what you imagined or intended?

Well, I’ve been pretty lucky with Bad Lieutenant in the sense that what I had in my head got up on screen. So in terms of the performance and in terms of the character, yeah, I felt pretty fortunate in that specific case. But there have been many cases where it never came to fruition the way I had hoped it would, or other elements or were against it in the filmmaking process, or it didn’t tie together as cohesively as I hoped it would. But I won’t mention any specific names.

At this point what helps you decide which roles to pick? Because you find a amazing variety of roles to play, and yet you can go back very easily to something like National Treasure.

Well, a lot of it has to do with is there anything I can learn from it? Is there any new territory I can explore? Is there some way I can build this character that might be entertaining for me and for audiences and try to build things from scratch. But with National Treasure, that to me is exciting because it does appeal to larger audiences and it does appeal to the whole family, and I feel like that’s one of the best ways I can apply myself is to make movies where people can have that ritual of looking forward to it and taking their parents to it and parents taking their kids to it and can congregate. So that’s one of the best usages, I think, of what I do in terms of making movies and applying my abilities. Then, I also have other interests. I am interested in the midnight audience, so I make movies like Bad Lieutenant so I can hopefully find, I call them sounds, where almost like music I can find new ways of expressing myself through my imagination and the different sounds that I may or may not hear. But they wouldn’t be right, certainly not right for National Treasure. But even in National Treasure, there’s moments of choreography and rhythm.

[From Cinematical]

Nic is pleasantly insane, isn?t he? I didn?t even put in the part of the interview that was about iguanas. Here?s the thing - I do think Nic is insanely talented. Give him a role like Adaptation or Matchstick Men, and it?s kind of amazing just how lovely and talented he is. But I feel like Nic has Al Pacino syndrome - like, Pacino is a great actor too, and more than capable of creating deep, fascinating, challenging portraits of interesting characters, but instead, Pacino has spent the last part of career taking a series of roles where he?s basically just yelling at people. I think Nic is like that too - he?s spent too much time in the last two decades just doing movies that don?t really challenge his talent. Eh. Maybe I?m wrong. I?d love it if Nic made some sort of huge comeback with a really amazing role.

Nicolas Cage at WonderCon on April 4, 2010. Credit: WENN.

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NOV
19
Nicolas Cage gets rid of the weave, visits Somali pirates in Kenya
Added 14 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Nicolas Cage gets rid of the weave, visits Somali pirates in Kenya
In an interview with Parade Magazine last week, Nicolas Cage said that he was headed to Africa for eight days, “but I don?t want to talk too much about it because it?s sort of about my new life in terms of what I want to do with the emphasis on action.” Yesterday Cage was photographed visiting jailed Somali Pirates in Kenya. He said that he hopes to learn more about the situation so that he can “actually make some sense when… I go talk to different U.N. councils and discuss the matter.” Cage’s interest in activism seems to coincide with his high profile financial problems, but good for him for doing something that makes a difference.

An AP article, below, notes that Cage is a “U.N. Goodwill Ambassador on Drugs and Crime,” but I did a search of Cage on the website for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and there’s only information about a UN event he attended in May of this year. It seems as if his ambassador appointment was recent.

MOMBASA, Kenya ? Film star Nicolas Cage has visited a Kenyan prison holding suspected Somali pirates awaiting trial to highlight the problem of piracy in the Indian Ocean.

Inmates danced for the movie star and shook his hand as he toured the Shimo La Tewa prison in the Kenyan coastal town of Mombasa. The prison has become a model for other jails in the country because of the reform work of its chief warden, Wanini Kireri.

Cage, a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador on Drugs and Crime, told The Associated Press Television News on Tuesday that he wanted to meet with some of the suspected Somali pirates, hear their stories and understand what is fueling piracy off the Somali coast.

“Then I’m in a position where I can actually make some sense and talk about it when I go back to the States where I go talk to different U.N. councils and discuss the matter,” Cage said.

Cage also gave out awards during his Tuesday visit to wardens in recognition of their outstanding work. He left Kenya Wednesday.

Somali pirates are currently holding around a dozen ships and more than 200 crew, and attacks have increased in recent weeks as seasonal rains subsided.

On Wednesday, pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.

An international flotilla of warships now patrols the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden, but pirates continue to carry out attacks because of the millions of dollars that can be made from a successful hijacking.

[From The AP via Google]

Cage is turning over a new leaf by getting more personally involved in charity, and he also seems to have given up the ridiculous dark toupee. Starpulse has photos of Cage’s visit to Kenya, and he has thinning hair slicked back so that you can see his scalp. I don’t like the greasy hair, but he deserves some credit for giving up the wig. That’s got to be a tough decision and he’ll find a look that works for him.

In terms of piracy off the coast of Somalia, I don’t know much about the situation, but I read a very good editorial earlier this year in the Independant. It seems that big companies were dumping toxic waste and illegally fishing in the Indian Ocean. The Somalis were initially trying to deter ships that were plundering their waters and dumping waste that was making them sick. It turned into piracy and we got the impression through the media that these were ruthless criminals kidnapping innocent people. Some of them definitely were, but there’s much more to it than we might think. There’s extreme poverty and despair in the country, and that needs to be considered when trying to address piracy. That definitely doesn’t excuse kidnapping and killing people, though.

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NOV
13
Johnny Depp offers old buddy Nicolas Cage a helping hand
Added 14 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Johnny Depp offers old buddy Nicolas Cage a helping hand
Johnny Depp and Nicolas Cage in 1989. They were so hot! Credit: Gary Lewis/Bauergriffinonline

The National Enquirer has a story this week that could possibly be made up, but given Johnny Depp’s reputation as an all-around nice, generous guy I want to think it’s true. Nicolas Cage, who is now over six million in debt to the US government, is almost solely responsible for helping Johnny Depp get his start in show business. Johnny credits Cage with his phenomenal career because Cage is the person who first encouraged him to get into acting. The two were buddies in LA in early 80s, and Cage told Depp, then a musician, that he should give acting a try. The rest is history. According to the Enquirer, Depp heard about Cage’s money problems and gave him a call telling him he would help him out.

When bighearted Johnny, 46, learned of Nic’s troubles, he offered to give him “whatever he needs” to take care of his cash-flow woes, said a friend of Johnny’s.

“Johnny called Nic and basically told him, ‘Look, don’t worry. I’ll help you. You just let me know, all right?’” revealed the friend.

Nic, 4, was touched by the generous offer, but he has so far refused it.

“Johnny has always felt he owes a great debt to Nic, and now he’s ready to repay it - if Nic wants him to,” the source countinued.

Johnny was a down-on-his-luck guitar player with a rock ‘n roll band in the early ’80s when his first wife, a makeup artist, introduced him to Nic. Over a game of Monopoly, Nic suggested the struggling musician try acting.

Johnny later recalled in an interview: “I met (Nic’s) agent, and she sent me to read for a movie (”Nightmare on Elm street”) and they hired me.”…

“Johnny has never forgotten what Nic did for him,” added the source.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, November 23, 2009]

Cage could probably really use the help. Most of his luxury properties around the world are being auctioned off to pay his debts. TMZ reported yesterday that two of his homes in New Orleans are now up for auction.

In contrast to Cage’s lavish lifestyle, Johnny Depp lives a relatively low-key life with his longterm partner, Vanessa Paradis, and two children in the south of France. Depp has his share of high-end purchases, though. He owns a 45 acre island in the Bahamas and has wine-making facilities on his French estate. He can afford it. Depp made $72 million in 2007 alone.

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NOV
5
Nicolas Cage's insane spending: luxury car a month, 2 islands, exotic pets
Added 14 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Nicolas Cage's insane spending: luxury car a month, 2 islands, exotic pets
The Daily Beast has a pretty fascinating profile of Nicolas Cage’s mind-boggling lifestyle. Action star Cage, 45, owes over $6.5 million in back taxes and is currently suing his former business manager for fraud, alleging that the manager “placed Cage in numerous highly speculative and risky real estate investments” and essentially is responsible for Cage’s debt problem.

Those who knew Cage say that’s not true, though, and that Cage bought frivolous high-ticket items nearly constantly, including a luxury car a month, various exotic animals, and more mansions, castles and even islands than he could ever use. It all sounds eerily close to Michael Jackson’s lifestyle, including bizarre purchases like shrunken heads and a dinosaur skull. When the economy was flush it didn’t matter as much because Cage’s properties were worth something, but when the real estate market tanked Cage was in deep trouble, and had to sell everything and cut way back.

Here’s a segment from the Daily Beast’s article, which is well worth reading if you get a chance:

Until fairly recently, Cage?s primary residence was the 1940 Bel Air mansion, with eight bedrooms, a theater, wine cellar, and a library. The house?s previous owners included Dean Martin and Tom Jones. ?A Gothic mausoleum? is how one sometime guest describes its dcor in recent years. When Cage first put it on the market a few years back, the asking price was more than $30 million. He later dropped the price in half, and finally put it up this September in a sealed bid sale, where only offers above $9.95 million were considered. A source close to the sale says it went for less than $15 million. Some argue that the economy may not be the only reason the house went for so much less than Cage had desired. ?It was not what I would call good taste,? says the visitor.

Down South, Cage?s two mansions in New Orleans have been foreclosed upon and will be auctioned off later this month. The first, a 13,000-square-foot, six-bedroom house in the Garden District, was originally put on the market for a reported $3.45 million. The second, on Royal Street in the French Quarter, went on sale for $3.5 million and has been described as one of the most beautiful houses in the city, though there are rumors it?s inhabited by ghosts. (Seriously.)

They are among more than a dozen other homes Cage has bought in the last decade or so, in places like Newport Beach; Venice Beach; Malibu; San Francisco; Middletown, Rhode Island; New York; and Las Vegas. There was a castle near Bath, in England, an 11th-century estate in Etzelwang, Germany, and not one but two Bahamian islands, which Cage bought in their entirety. (Movie stars, after all, like privacy, so long as you?re paying attention to them onscreen.)

The bulk of those properties have been sold or are in the process of being sold.

Cage also had a serious car and motorcycle habit. In June 2004, he owned 18 motorcycles and 30 cars, a member of his entourage says. And that was on the low end: At another point, two sources say, the car total was around 50.

In 1997, Cage spent nearly half a million dollars on a Lamborghini Miura SVJ that had been owned by the shah of Iran and was confiscated from the Imperial Garage during the 1979 revolution. Never mind that at the time he bought it, the car was trading for an estimated $250,000 to $300,000. ?He didn?t care,? says a close source. ?Nic at an auction is dangerous. There?s just no limit to what he?d spend.? He kept the cars in a hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, where neighbors with their own hangars included Jerry Seinfeld, Tom Cruise, and Charlie Sheen.

The most bizarre display of Cage?s conspicuous car consumption? A 1955 Jaguar D-Type that he decided to put on exhibit in his billiard room at the Bel Air house, where it was lit from above, like something out of a car dealership. (There was also at least one expensive motorcycle sitting in the foyer, according to three people who visited the house. ?It was an eclectic way of decorating,? one shrugs.)

Nor did Cage limit himself to vintage cars, which are typically better investments than new ones. ?He had one of every thing that was new and fantastic,? says one source. ?Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Rolls Royces, Bentleys. If Aston Martin was coming out with a new model, chances are, he would have it.? At one point, the source says, Cage was snapping up cars at a rate of about ?one per month.? For a time, the actor also employed a full-time car mechanic, whose job was solely to service his cars, two sources say.

Cage?s penchant for acquisition was aided by the fact that for years, many of the things he spent money on appeared to be good investments. The vintage cars he bought frequently doubled in value, so Cage made a lot of money buying and selling them. (In his case, most sales were followed by more purchases). Real estate was seen as an even safer bet. According to a source from his inner circle, when the first few houses he bought began to accrue in value, Cage began to borrow heavily against them to buy more properties. Unlike the cars, though, he didn?t do nearly enough selling, which placed him in a particularly precarious position when the market began to collapse over the last two and a half years.

And then there were two yachts, at least, and the Gulfstream jet…

Three people who visited his house also report seeing shrunken heads. None is sure whether they were actual people?s heads (which are illegal to import) or simply those of animals (which generally are not). Still, one thing was for certain. ?They were pretty weird,? says a source.

So was Cage?s pet collection, which in addition to a handful of purebred dogs, included rare birds and a host of lizards, snakes, and other creepy crawlies. ?Basically, a zoo,? is how a person who?s known Cage for many years describes it. He also had two albino King Cobras, this person says, as well as ?an antidote serum on the wall, so that if you got bit by a snake you could save yourself.?

There also was a dinosaur skull that Cage purchased in 2007 for $276,000 in a heated auction with Leonardo DiCaprio.

It was a fabulous life while it lasted, but it helps explain why so many people in Hollywood aren?t entirely convinced his ex-money manager is solely to blame for the actor?s financial troubles. Says one person who has known Cage for many years: ?I remember a bunch of us saying, ?How many more magic tricks can Sam do to keep Nic afloat?? It was a house of cards? I think Nic thought he was invincible.?

[From The Daily Beast]

So poor Nicolas Cage is probably still living in luxury with just a few staff members and a radically reduced set of toys. I can’t say I feel sorry for him. He wasn’t entirely selfish in his spending, though. The article notes that he gave a million to the Red Cross to aid Katrina victims in 2005 and that he donated $2 million to Amnesty International in 2006. Many people have addictions and it sounds like Cage’s is spending. It took a real crisis for him to start to get a handle on it too.

Nicolas Cage is shown on 9/14 and 9/15/09. Credit: WENN.com

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