Celebs on a Plane: The Angry, the Drunk, the Ejected

The New York Post recently ran a story about famously ill-tempered actress Faye Dunaway, in which a stewardess claims the acting legend is so notoriously mean, she is routinely denied flight upgrades. The stewardess told the paper, "She was a total b***h, screaming at everyone and saying, 'Don't you know who I am?' But we refused and sat her at the front of coach, where she could see there were seats free in business and first class, which made her even more furious." She says that to get back at the 'Mommie Dearest' star, who once railed "No more wire hangers!", the crew dumped a bunch of wire hangers in the seat next to her while she was sleeping.

Unfortunately, Dunaway is not the only celeb to behave badly on an airplane. After the jump are just some of the naughty stars who think it's perfectly acceptable to pick fights with airline crew, attempt to take guns onto flights or get completely snockered before boarding.


? In 2008, model Naomi Campbell was banned from British Airways following a vicious argument over lost baggage. Police were called onto the plane and she allegedly spat on a police officer. The sullen supermodel was cuffed and led away to the police station.

Her spokesperson said, "Naomi has been flying with British Airways for nearly thirty years and has been a good customer. She hopes this can be resolved amicably."

It wasn't Campbell's first airport tantrum. Earlier that year she was witnessed screaming profanities at airline staff after being told she could not board a flight because she arrived eleven minutes before takeoff.

? Christian Slater was arrested at JFK airport in 1994 for trying to board a plane with an unlicensed 9mm pistol in his luggage.

? Last year, Josh Duhamel was escorted off a New York to Kentucky flight after he refused to turn off his Blackberry despite repeated requests by the flight attendant. According to other passengers, he was asked on three separate occasions to turn off his device and was "very rude" and "taunting the attendant." The plane was sent back to the runway and officer escorted the 'Transformers' star off the flight. He later admitted that the experience was "not my favorite moment."

? Jonathan Rhys-Meyers seems to have a problem boarding flights sober. In 2007, he was arrested at Dublin Airport for public intoxication. Two years later, he was barred from getting on a flight at Charles De Gaulle Airport because he was too smashed, and last year he allegedly hurled the N-word at a United Airlines employee who tried to bar the drunken 'Tudors' star from getting on a flight.

? British Airways refused to allow David Hasselhoff to board an LA-bound flight from London because he allegedly got drunk in the first class lounge. He was allowed to board a later flight after he sobered up.

? In 2003, Courtney Love became disruptive and refused to sit down or buckle her seat belt on a Virgin Airways flight and was arrested on arrival. Love claims it was a big misunderstanding. "I cussed at a lady," the singer explained. "She wasn't letting my friend into first class and I said, 'Why are you being such a bitch about it?'"

? Diana Ross was detained by British police for nearly five hours in 1999 after a female staff member at Heathrow airport complained of being assaulted by the star. She was let go without being charged.

Apparently, the Motown legend was irked when a guard tried to search her by hand after she set off a metal detector and tried in turn to "frisk" the guard herself.

"I am a huggy person, I don't mind being touched but not in this way. It was far too personal," said Ross.

? In 2009, Ivana Trump was tossed off a plane in Florida when she got into an altercation with -- are you ready for this? -- a bunch of unruly kids who were running up and down the aisle. Calling the children "little f**kers," the Czech divorcee got angry with attendants who attempted to calm her down. The plane was returned to the runway and Trump, who refused to voluntarily leave the plane, was escorted off.

? Mo'Nique was thrown off a United flight in 2006 after arguing with a flight attendant. The comedienne and Oscar-winning actress was in first class and claimed that the attendant was nasty and rude when her stylist, who was flying coach, tried to stow the star's hair dryer in a first class locker.

She told NY Daily News, "I felt like I was being treated like an animal. This happens to black people all the time and they don't have a voice. It was humiliating."



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'Drive Angry': The Reviews Are In!

"Drive Angry" marks three-straight supernatural films for Nicolas Cage, though each could not be more different. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" was a Disney-driven tale of magical realism. "Season of the Witch" dove into the intersection of medieval black magic and campy B-movie wackiness. And "Drive Angry" literally begins with Cage driving a muscle car straight outta hell with the devil's henchman fast on his heels and doesn't slow down as it splashes blood and fire across the screen.

All three flicks share something else in common: below-average reviews. "Sorcerer's" and "Season" each went on to conjure up lukewarm box-office receipts. Can "Drive Angry" break the spell? Check out what the critics are saying and decide if the new 3-D film is the right choice for you this weekend.

The Story
"[It] may be a bit too slickly self-aware for its own good, but it's also rivetingly paced, outrageously funny and makes retina-scorching use of the new 3D technology. Nicolas Cage is on teeth-baring, eye-rolling form as John Milton (nice), the deceased felon who busts out of hell to track down the Southern death cult who kidnapped his baby granddaughter. Hooking up with mouthy muscle-car-driving white-trash waitress Piper (Amber Heard), Milton sets off in pursuit, all the while attempting to avoid the attentions of Satan's right-hand man, The Accountant (a majestically arch William Fichtner)." -- Tom Huddleston, Time Out

Crazy Nic Cage
"A little respect, if you please, for His Satanic Majesty Nicolas Cage. Nobody goes off the deep end like Nic. Nobody gives better value in bad movies than the sleepy-eyed Oscar winner with a gift for picking bad movies. 'Drive Angry' is a very entertaining B, C or D-movie, an over-the-top and in-your-face grindhouse gore, guns and 'Gun it' picture that's about epic shootouts, bone-snapping brawls, bare breasts and muscle cars. The gunplay is funny and the sex hilarious in this 'Ghost Rider is Gone in 60 Seconds' mashup." -- Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

The 3-D
" 'Drive Angry' is intensely bloody, violent and carries quite a few payoffs that are well delivered. It's also a movie you'd actually want to see in 3-D, unlike so many frauds in the marketplace these days. In fact, Lussier, who directed 'My Bloody Valentine 3D,' shows his growth as a 3-dimensional director by taking 'Drive Angry' to new heights. Seeing it in Real D, the depth was astounding, and Lussier throws a few CGI tricks right in the viewer's face. Even more impressive was his flashback sequence that could easily become one of the most influential in the 3-D age (the way he layers three 'thoughts' at once is mind-blowing visually). In short, it's worth the extra few bucks." -- Brad Miska, Bloody Disgusting

Going Grindhouse
" 'Drive Angry' is loud and busy, and it's rarely boring. But it's also never really good. 'Drive Angry' comes at the tail end of the grindhouse revival trend, and while it's better made than films like 'Machete' or the scores of indie films that followed in Quentin Tarantino's wake, it succumbs to the same problem so many of those movies do: it's a movie about the things that the filmmakers think are cool, and that's never cool. 'Drive Angry' isn't about anything, it's just a series of ideas that struck Lussier and Farmer as awesome, strung together at feature length. There's a lot of balls in Drive Angry, and even some brains, but no heart." -- Devin Faraci, Badass Digest

The Final Word
" 'Drive Angry' is, in the end, a genre romp. It's not aiming any higher than that. But it is made with real skill and style, and there's such knowledge of genre in the way they have built the script and both embraced and avoided certain conventions that it makes me feel like we're just seeing Farmer and Lussier warm up. Hopefully they'll keep working with collaborators as game as their partners in this particular crime, because 'Drive Angry' is a white-knuckle ride worth taking." -- Drew McWeeny, HitFix

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'Drive Angry' Stars Discuss Film's Most Outrageous Moments

If the trailers haven't already sold the fact that "Drive Angry" is outrageous, in every sense of the word, allow the cast of the film -- Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, Billy Burke and William Fichtner -- to expand on the subject, particularly the scenes they thought would be left on the cutting-room floor.

"I'm still kind of amazed that they let me drink beer out of somebody's skull," Cage admitted to MTV News recently of his character's most over-the-top antics. "That that's still in the movie, and it's a credit to [director] Patrick Lussier that he had the guts to go in the most far-out places."

"Only in our movie, in the world of 'Drive Angry,' " Heard said.

"I wanted it to look good, like, 'My cup runneth over,' " Cage explained of the big moment. "I wanted the beer to come sploshing out of the eye sockets."

Burke, who plays a very disturbed and psychotic cult leader hell-bent on infant sacrifice in the film, said he figured that one of the film's climactic scenes would receive a less intensely violent edit.

"I thought that we would probably change sacrificing a baby to maybe a lamb or something like that," Burke said. "I didn't think that we'd actually go forward with wanting to kill a baby, but we did, and that's the kind of movie this is. So if you can't take that, for the fun and spirit in which it's intended, then you shouldn't go see this movie," he advised.

For scene-stealer Fichtner, who plays the mysterious character the Accountant, he was most surprised that a very racy/violent love scene made the cut.

"There was one scene in the movie, we all know which one I'm talking about [a 'creative' sex scene in which Cage engages in a gunfight with a naked woman still on top of him] where I thought, 'Wow, that's interesting,' " he said. "That's a challenge."

In addition to the outrageousness of wrapping your head around what happens in that scene, Fichtner said he has great respect for the actors and stunt coordinators who made it happen.

"Patrick [Lussier] did an amazing job and so did Charlotte [Ross] and Nic," he said. "It's much more than just a sex scene."

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