Okay, granted, Bale was over the top, and it's a regrettable lapse in manners and decorum among mature adults.

However. The level of intensity--the f-word aside--is no different than encounters in every workplace, or at least the majority, from time to time. I've had rants from my parents--and given them to my children--at about that level of frustration and on-my-last-nerve. I've certainly had words at other drivers, complete with the f-word, at that level or higher. I don't think this is a singular enough occurance to merit the shocked and scandalized reaction. Or maybe I'm just a thick-hided old veteran of vocal wars.

I still say, unless this escalated to the physical, it's not especially noteworthy, and redeemable by a sincere apology and no recurrance.

Ah, the site is "Big Hollywood" devoted to the idea that Hollywood is a land of left wing extremism where conservatives are subject to reverse McCarthyism. And Michael Moore is fat!

Christian Bale's Letter Of Apology

To Shane Hurlbut, and to my fans,

I'm so fucking sorry that I lost control on the fucking set of Terminator Salvation. It was so fucking inappropriate. I could try and make some kind of excuse, about the stress of carrying the success of a major franchise on your shoulders, or the mental intensity of an actor in the middle of an emotionally powerful scene, but I won't patronize you. We both know that I could do this fucking job with my fucking eyes fucking closed. And this is a fucking Terminator movie. There are no emotionally powerful scenes.

As you may remember during my tirade, I asked Mr. Hurlbut if he was a professional. I wish I had had the temperament to ask myself that question in that moment. Are you a professional or not, Christian Bale? I would have said. To myself. A professional does not do what I did to Mr. Hurlbut on that day. A professional sits in his trailer and rubs cocaine on his dick, alone.

I know that these revelations have fucking shocked many of my fans, and I'm so fucking sorry. I want to kick my own fucking ass. NO! NO! DON'T SHUT ME UP. Da de da de da, what don't you fucking understand? You got any fucking idear about how fucking sorry I fucking am?

Fuck you,
Chrissy B.

Anyone who [...] works in a traditionally male role, like a cop, fireman, cowboy is revealed to be a drunk, wife beater, or criminal.

For real? How to explain cop and cowboy movies?

The level of intensity--the f-word aside--is no different than encounters in every workplace, or at least the majority, from time to time.

I evidently haven't worked in the typical workplace, because I've never heard anything like that in one.

I evidently haven't worked in the typical workplace, because I've never heard anything like that in one.

I've heard it in a workplace where the owners were abusive to some employees. They never dared speak like that to me, I would have walked out of the office. They were fired after the company was purchased by another large company (not for the abusive language but because of shady dealings).

I evidently haven't worked in the typical workplace, because I've never heard anything like that in one.

Never worked with brokers, I see. Oh, except for that part about leaving the f-word aside.

No, I wouldn't call that typical. But not so far outside the expected for the amount of play it's getting. Someone mentioned the Baldwin rant at his kid upthread - I agree that that was way more shocking.

I have worked in workplaces where that kind of rant would bee out of place, but more where it would happen occasionally. At one workplace it was acceptable behavior for employees to challenge each other to wrestling matches, which I would be surprised if anyone else can match. (Umm maybe excluding the person on this board who actually works for WWF.)

Yeah, she was twelve. I think police sometimes *do* feel that they relate more to criminals than 9 to 5 citizens, but I have read that in first-hand accounts of police work.(And I'm not calling cops criminals, just that their day-to-days are more similar than say a cop and an insurance agent.) Don't give that guy "the Wire" or "Rescue Me" his head would burst.

Isn't the DP usually behind the camera during a take?