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You Say Potato, I Say You Knocked the Shit out of Me
Bruce Willis, a relatively obscure Hollywood actor who has managed to somehow earn a meager living “starring” in films like The Kid, Tears of the Sun, and Loaded Weapon I, apparently is so cash-strapped that he’s decided to file a lawsuit against a member of the so-called paparazzi. In a suit filed yesterday in Beverly Hills, the actor is asking for $1 million, alleging that a photographer defamed him by suggesting that Willis hit him outside a Japanese Restaurant popular with celebrities, with whom Willis presumably was trying to cajole a walk-on role in one of their movies.
Indeed, the photographer, Anthony Goodrich — who apparently mistook Willis for someone the public gave a damn about — accused the star of North of smashing his camera into his face, leaving the picture-taker with a chipped tooth and a lacerated nose. Willis, for his part, claims that his contact with Goodrich was “exceedingly minimal and inadvertent,” and that he’d only put his hand up to shield himself from the blinding flash. Willis’ lawsuit further claims that Goodrich “is a known stalker-paparazzi who makes a living by stalking and confronting celebrities to take their photographs and otherwise attempts to incite some physical contact or outburst by the celebrity.”
And while that may be true — can we really call Bruce Willis a “celebrity”? Clearly, he’s just some deranged, — probably homeless — Hollywood-wannabe trying to take advantage of a well-meaning photographer who’s out there trying to earn a buck in the highly-respectable field of “stalker-paparazzi.” And, of course, this Willis guy is exploiting the situation to call much-wanted attention on himself and, hopefully in the process, escalate his star enough to warrant at least a cameo appearance on VH1’s “Surreal Life.”
It’s sick, folks. Just sick what people in Hollywood will do today to get ahead these days.
