EBERT GIVES RYAN DUNN'S DEATH TWO THUMBS UP.

"Huffingtonpost.com -- Shortly after the sad news broke that "Jackass" star Ryan Dunn had been killed in a catastrophic car accident early Monday morning in Pennsylvania, the web took notice of his Twitter feed, to which he posted a photo of himself drinking with friends just hours before the crash.

While the police report did not indicate that drinking was a factor in the horrific crash -- speed, the report said, may have been a contributor -- movie critic and prolific twitterer Roger Ebert sent out a critical message that some are calling insensitive.

"Friends don't let jackasses drink and drive," he tweeted around 3 pm EST. The message was met with a barrage of push back, including from blogger Perez Hilton's site.

"We certainly agree that driving after drinking is wrong, we think there's no reason - especially RIGHT NOW - that anyone should be pointing fingers or poking fun at a truly tragic situation," the site wrote. "Everyone makes mistake, and this is somebody's son. Too soon, Roger."

Around 8 pm, Ebert responded, defending his comment and the remarks of commenters on Hilton's site, many of whom agreed with Ebert.

"Perez Hilton's readers agree with me and not with Perez about my tweet on Ryan Dunn. He drank, he drove, 2 people died," Ebert wrote.

You can read the tweets of other celebrities, including some of Dunn's "Jackass' costars, in the slideshow below"

I can see both sides clearly from this fence I'm sitting on.  

On one hand, Dunn is dead.  I love those Jackass movies and I was watching the CKY videos way before Jackass ever hit so I literally grew up watching this guy Ryan Dunn.  It sucks to lose someone who entertains us.  Which is kind of why celeb deaths are big news.  I personally will lose no sleep over his death b/c I'd never met the guy but I do recognize the tragedy because I'm familiar with him. 

On the other hand, Ebert is just a natural critic.  He's just tweeting cerebrally.  Drinking and driving is a plague that happens every day.  Even when you end up parked on your neighbors lawn and safe in bed...their bed...it was still just another tragedy diverted.  So I have no problem with Ebert calling him out on driving drunk and canceling two lives.

On my third hand, now that I know Ebert likes to fight with the gloves I really wish I didn't hold back when he went through that cancer and lost his jaw...

"i heard the last movie Roger Ebert was was jaw-dropping"  

OH NIC CAGE. IF ONLY THE 80'S COULD HAVE LASTED FOR EVER...OR EVEN THAT ONE YEAR WHEN CON AIR CAME OUT

"Nicolas Cage's 20-year-old son, Weston Cage, was taken to a Los Angeles-area hospital for a psychiatric evaluation after flying off the handle and getting into a violent spat in Hollywood yesterday.

TMZ quoted sources as saying that Weston went ballistic while lunching with his trainer after the latter told him he couldn't eat something on the menu. He then became aggressive and purportedly shoved the trainer. The trainer and another unidentified individual tried to calm the younger Cage down, but Weston tried to kick him"


This would be a story that might make people scratch their heads and be like "Why did he react like this?"  or "Where is this behavior coming from?"  But all those questions evaporate once the person involved looks like this:

Once i saw that picture i was like, Oh okay he's bananas.  Next story.


But what I'd like to know was what was the thing on the menu that he was refused?  I think everyone has a couple of things that if you were hungry and someone said you couldn't have it then you'd flip your lid.  I know that I'd go toe-to-toe with someone for buffalo chicken nachos.  I'd bite your ear off and use it as a nacho right in front of you.  But for lil Weston Cage i'm guessing he probably tried to order a living buffalo chicken.  Then the trainer stepped in to offer a side of sanity and got walloped.

Besides that my only question is What the Fuck took so long to have this kid psychologically evaluated??  Now there's a blame game going on back and forth with the Cage family but it's kind of a few years late.  


Listen, If I'm a parent and I'm sitting at the breakfast table eating some cereal and doing the puzzle on the back of the box...then my son comes downstairs dressed like this kid here.  I'd have to put the spoon down and have a quick father-to-son with him.  Maybe that makes me a strict parent.  But I'm pretty sure the opposite of 'helping' your son is to hire him a personal trainer and be like, "Oh yeah, sure wear make up and chains and spikes and also do these steroids, lift weights and get RIPPED so that when your repressed emotions finally become too much to hide with eyeliner you can simply kill everyone in the same room as you.  Love you son!"


And on this same note, what's up with people getting trainers?  Personal trainers are such a rich guy's thing.  Whatever happened to working out like Mr T in Rocky III.  Basement gym, pull ups on chains, sleep on stairs, chew on onions, interrupting public ceremonies by making lewd comments at women.  America needs to toughen up.