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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 11:49 am |
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Stupid fuck! Wonders why he's had so many $$$ problems(it certainly aint the ho's). You'd think, just the risidules alone from all of his movies over the next 10-20 years would keep him very rich? guess not:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-nicolas-cage-spending.html
Nicolas Cage's Outrageous Decades-Long Shopping Spree
An article in The Daily Beast says that Nicolas Cage's recent financial problems are, at least in part, due to outrageous, eccentric spending that puts even his most flamboyant fellow celebrities to shame.
If you can dream it, Nic Cage bought it: yachts, a jet, a castle, over 50 cars, over a million dollars' worth of comic books, multiple (supposedly haunted) mansions in New Orleans, two Bahamanian islands, shrunken heads that may or may not have been human, and, famously, a $500k Lamborghini once owned by the Shah of Iran. Most amusingly, Cage spent $276,000 on a dinosaur skull in a "heated auction with Leonardo DiCaprio." And though the article has details about Cage's many pets -- claiming that he kept antidote serum on his wall for the poison of his two King Cobras -- it neglects to mention at least one: Cage's pet octopus.
Cage's lawyer, Martin Singer, told The Daily Beast "Half the stuff you say is false. I'm not going to get into detail," so we may never know which half is true.
Cage made headlines last month when he filed a $20 million lawsuit against his former business manager. The suit claims the manager, Samuel Levin, failed to pay taxes and lost money in unsound investments, putting him "down a path toward financial ruin." This summer, the IRS placed a tax lien of over $6 million on Cage's New Orleans properties for unpaid income taxes.
Still, it's hard not to look at Cage's extreme-by-any-standards spending habits and not draw conclusions about his current money woes. For example, did he really need to customize a Bentley so elaborately that, when he got it back from the shop, he could no longer fit in it?
However lavishly Cage spent on himself, he's also been a very generous guy. The article reports that the actor gave $1 million to the Red Cross to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina, and $2 million to the human-rights group Amnesty International.
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 12:36 pm |
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| More bad Nicolas cage movies coming up.
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 01:07 pm |
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lobo316 wrote: More bad Nicolas cage movies coming up.
Has there been a good one since the 1990s?
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 01:29 pm |
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tofu_chipmunk wrote: lobo316 wrote: More bad Nicolas cage movies coming up.
Has there been a good one since the 1990s?
Nothing since "Leaving Las Vegas", IMO.
The real crime is that he had all that cash to burn through, given the litany of crap he's produced for the last decade-and-a-half.
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 02:16 pm |
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lobo316 wrote: More bad Nicolas cage movies coming up.
My first thought was, "This explains his movie choices."
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 02:20 pm |
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srossi wrote: lobo316 wrote: More bad Nicolas cage movies coming up.
My first thought was, "This explains his movie choices."
My first thought was that, despite the proclamations of some, it's not only certain pro rasslers, black athletes and hillbilly lottery winners who can't manage their cash.Last edited on Thu Nov 5th, 2009 02:21 pm by tofu_chipmunk
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 02:23 pm |
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srossi wrote: lobo316 wrote: More bad Nicolas cage movies coming up.
My first thought was, "This explains his movie choices."
Mine too, but it's not just the movies that are bad. He's one of the absolute worst "name" actors in the business.
3 movies worth a shit in a 20+ year career. And those are just because he didn't really have to stretch much past his own retarded personality.
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 02:25 pm |
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DaNkinator wrote: srossi wrote: lobo316 wrote: More bad Nicolas cage movies coming up.
My first thought was, "This explains his movie choices."
Mine too, but it's not just the movies that are bad. He's one of the absolute worst "name" actors in the business.
3 movies worth a shit in a 20+ year career. And those are just because he didn't really have to stretch much past his own retarded personality.
It's because he was born into Hollywood Royalty.
I don't care for his acting either (I like Raising Arizona and Wild at Heart and that is about it). Many of his performances are painful for me to watch, but he's the only celebrity people have come up to me and said "has anyone ever told you you look like . . . ". A few years ago (and many pounds ago) I used to get that somewhat frequently. Of all the lousy, little-talent, over-privelaged Hollywood hacks to be compared to! (Though I must admit it did get me a piece of action or two)
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 02:33 pm |
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tofu_chipmunk wrote: srossi wrote: lobo316 wrote: More bad Nicolas cage movies coming up.
My first thought was, "This explains his movie choices."
My first thought was that, despite the proclamations of some, it's not only certain pro rasslers, black athletes and hillbilly lottery winners who can't manage their cash.
Not only them, but mostly.
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 02:52 pm |
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| Feels like my skull's on fire...
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Posted: Fri Nov 6th, 2009 02:40 am |
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I'd like to win the lottery to see if I can beat those odds.
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