Thursday, June 14, 2012
Today's Blind Items - He Would Rage Against Her
Our actor today used to be an A lister. I suppose he still has some type of permanent close to A list status as he would never do a movie in which he was not the lead. Academy Award winner. Kids. And former woman beater who used to beat one of his old girlfriends so badly that some people are surprised she lived. The couple hated each other at the same time they loved each other. He would sleep with someone during the day and then come home to this former A list actress movie star who would smell perfume or see lipstick and they would start to fight. At the time, our actor had a rage which he had not yet learned to control and would beat her. Our actress once had to back out of a movie she was set to star in because our actor beat her so badly. The role went to another actress who won an Academy Award. That actress also had sex with our actor. Even after he would hit her, the actress would never leave. When our actor tried to leave her she would beg him to stay and he would. There was not a month that went by where he didn't beat her. There have been no other women that have ever said anything about him hurting them, but this actress brought out the best. Even though he cheated on her on a daily basis, when he found out she was maybe cheating on him, he knocked out her three front teeth. There was also a scar that you could see right above her lip where the tooth had pushed through. The relationship probably would have ended up with her dead, but our actor found another actress he wanted for his regular girlfriend and broke it off and fled the country with his new actress girlfriend. By the time he got back our beaten actress had move on and into another violent relationship. One that lasted much longer.
Russell Crowe & Meg Ryan
ReplyDeleteNo clue, but Hollyweird is effed up. I'm really glad to be part of the boring Midwest!
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ReplyDeleteMarky Mark? Well known rage problems.
ReplyDeleteWas actress #1 or #2 the one with the knocked out teeth? Sounds like a rehash of Ryan/Crow, but who would be Ryan's violent bf after Crow? And what's the roll she gave up?
ReplyDeleteYour BI are starting to all sound alike, and Hollywood isn't all evil and creepy.
ReplyDeleteDitto. Sounds like part of the disclaimer at the bottom of the site.
Delete@Frufra -- I think Meg Ryan was almost in Silence of the Lambs, but that timeline doesn't match up....
ReplyDeleteIt'd line up for Dennis Quaid, who I'm pretty sure beat her and cheated all the time. not sure about his permanent status though
DeleteFirst time commenter, long time reader!
ReplyDeleteI thought of Antonio Bandaras and Meg Ryan.
Welcome! Are you from northern MN?
DeleteFor some reason, I think this might be an old(ish) Hollywood blind.
ReplyDeleteCould someone in the public eye today get knocked around so severely that it wouldn't come out?
Guess it's role not roll, huh? Like a roll of paper towels or something.
ReplyDeleteDaniel Day Lewis (I hope not)
ReplyDeleteWinona Ryder (former A list)
Gwyneth Paltrow (got role, won Oscar)
Isabelle Adjani (foreign actress he moved onto)
Sean Penn comes to mind
ReplyDeleteIt states that "the couple hated each other at the same time they loved each other."
ReplyDeleteRussell Crowe never loved Meg Ryan, though she loved him. I can see him being abusive, though.
Winona and Gwyneth doesn't work. Winona didn't lose the role of Shakespeare in Love to Gwyneth because of that. She didn't get it because Gwyneth saw the script on her table one day and went to the audition and used her nepotism to steal the role. That's why her and Winona were no longer friends after that.
ReplyDeleteForget my guess--he was with IA from 89-94. It doesn't work.
ReplyDeleteMoving on....
Jack Nicholson and Anjelica houstOn he moved onto Rebecca broussard
ReplyDeleteThis made me think of McQueen and that chick from Love Story. I'm sure it doesn't fit but from the stories I've been told over the years it sounded awfully familiar.
ReplyDeletethere's no domestic violence in the midwest? only hollywood? THAT'S INSANE.
ReplyDeleteI guess we should all move to the Midwest since its such a magical place!
DeleteOh good lord, I was being facetious. Get over yourselves
DeleteYah, I thought of McQueen, too, but his dead status is a perfect alibi.
ReplyDeleteSean Penn?
I think it's Jack Nicholson (he went on to be with Rebecca Broussard then Lara Flynn Boyle) & Angelica Huston (she went on to marry the artist Robert Graham).
ReplyDeletewhocaresnow - if you dont care, why do you keep reading/posting? troublemaker.
ReplyDeleteBut How is Jack Nicholson not A+ List? I mean, it's Jack Frickin' Nicholson. He still gets paparazzi and press just for showing up somewhere. No way he is 'former'.
ReplyDelete@whocaresnow12 Troll much? If you don't like it, don't read it. Sounds like you live in LA and are trying to defend/rationalize it. I escaped over a decade ago, and I now live in a place where you can do amazing stuff like breathe air and move forward on the freeway at a reasonable speed. Amazing stuff!
ReplyDeleteI think that the woman might be dead. It never speaks about her in the present tense.
ReplyDeleteSo what former or nearly A-list actors have dead ex-girlfriends in their past?
Who gives a shit if whocaresnow thinks this site is a pack of lies? If you don't like what they post, don't read it.
ReplyDeleteHollywood the town isn't the same as Hollywood the industry. The industry is pretty messed up, I don't think anyone can deny that. LA is gorgeous though.
ReplyDeleteI think this one is old too, like old Hollywood old.
Only when you're high as a kite does the Midwest become a magical place.
ReplyDeleteNo idea who this gf beater is but have always heard that Nicholson is crazy and treats his gf really bad.
sean penn & robin wright for the win.
ReplyDeleteWarren Beatty?
ReplyDeleteWhat about Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty?
ReplyDeleteI know Hale Berry used to get beaten up a lot by one of her exes. That's why she's almost deaf in one ear. Wasn't it Wesley Snipes who was the one who did it to her?
ReplyDeleteI don' think that it is Penn and Wright. She was with Sean for a long time and it says she moved on to another violent relationship that lasted much longer...unless she was with another A list guy before Penn???
ReplyDelete@crila16, I think the incident with Halle occurred before she was famous.
ReplyDeleteIs there a way to make Christian Bale work for this
ReplyDeleteHe has apparently dated Winona Ryder...i don't think his current wife is part of the blind
The title of the blind made me think Rage Against the Machine. He was in the Machinist
@Grey Christian is married to Winona's former assistant. He and Winona never dated.
DeleteThis made me think of Farrah for the actress...
ReplyDeleteJessica Lange is the first actress that came to mind because of her various accidents and turbulent relationship with Sam Shepard that ended in 2010.
ReplyDeleteSam was a known womanizer and they supposedly had epic fights but she kept taking him back.
This or Annette & Warren.
Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty....and Robert Wagner for her long relationship?
ReplyDeleteThis is way out there, but I'm thinking Al Pacino can't deliver a line in a movie without coming off with anger issues.
ReplyDeleteJason Patric (ran off to Europe with Julia Roberts), Robin Wright who married Sean Penn for a much longer time.
ReplyDeleteIm with the Natalie wood/warren Beatty/jack Wagner guesses. Def seems old hollywood, plus the last sentence is way too ominous to mean anything but our actress is dead in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteRobert Wagner wouldn't have been her long relationship after. She married Gregson in between, but that was many years after Beatty.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if Beatty and Wood were on again in the mid-late 60s, but she was originally offered the part of Bonnie in Bonnie and Clyde. Wood ostensibly refused to take it because she didn't want to be aware from her therapist.
So she dated Beatty 62-63. I found he was going on double dates w Some chick maya plit-something or other and the other couple being wood and Henry jaglom 66-67 which seems weird.
DeleteThat could explain the her cheating on him thing and lines up w the movie. He ran off w Julie Christie 1967-1974 and by 1972 she had remarried Wagner.
I just can't see Warren Beatty as a woman beater with rage issues. With that, I've got nothin.
ReplyDeleteI think the trick to this blind is the lip scar. I like the Anjelica Huston guess a lot but she has no scar...
ReplyDeleteFaye Dunawaye, who of course played Bonnie, won an Oscar for Network in '75 or '76.
ReplyDeleteI agree that this must be old hollywood. I think the title must be significant. He would rage against her. Its got to be old hwood cuz we would have more guesses at the ready.sean penn is probably the closest we are going to get without knowing more or narrowing it down. Steve mcqueen is good. Not nicholson no way. Old hollywood violent. Sorry to say but richard burton?
ReplyDeleteWoods wagner beatty she fell off the boat?
ReplyDeleteWilliam Hurt - permanant A list - Oscar for Kiss of the Spider Woman... Nominated for 3 additional Oscars....
ReplyDeleteKnown to have abused Marlee Matlin... Perhaps also Mary Beth Hurt?
I'm sticking to this one.
Oh, and I still love George Wendt.
While I think that this is Meg/Crowe, I at first read it being Kim Basinger. Alec Baldwin being the longer abusive relationship and Richard Gere being the main abuser.
ReplyDeleteThe BV says there WAS a scar above her lip. Does that mean she's dead?
ReplyDeleteIf it's old Hollywood the most famous wife beater in the 50's and 60's was George C Scott. Ava Gardner has a chapter devoted to the beatings she endured at his hands in her autobiography. Trish Van Devere has given interviews talking about what a regular wife beater he was when they were married.
ReplyDeleteJohnny depp n wynona rider??
ReplyDeleteBut William Hurt plays supporting in all kinds of films nowadays, never the lead...
ReplyDeleteJohnny depp n wynona rider??
ReplyDeleteJohnny depp n wynona rider??
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ReplyDeleteRussell Crowe is STILL A list. The actor in question USED to be an A list (which means...he's no longer an A list), but has some type of permanent A list status.
ReplyDeleteJohnny Depp is STILL A list. Also, I don't think Johnny ever won an oscar...did he?
@ Another Josh: "breathe air and move forward on the freeway at a reasonable speed'"
ReplyDeleteAre there unicorns too? ;) That place doesn't actually exist.(I live in LA).
And Crowe fits the close to A, and would never do anything but lead role even though all his films in recent memory have flopped.
ReplyDelete@ nienhulm - LOL.
ReplyDeleteFarrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal???
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ReplyDeleteI agree with all the old Hollywood guesses, if this was someone more recent the public would have noticed, especially with the crazy paparazzi we have nowadays. Nothing escapes those cameras.
ReplyDeleteOn that note, I have absolutely no idea.
I have no guess, but I was thinking old Hollywood the entire time I was reading this.
ReplyDeleteHollywood as an industry is fucked up in the same way that all other industries and organizations that are run by fuckers obsessed with power and greed are fucked up. The only reason why Hollywood BIs that may or not be true are shocking is b/c celebrities are worshipped in a way that your regular corporate monster, religious leader, politician, etc., are not. Hollywood as a place and an industry is no better nor worse than any place else. There are good people and bad people, people who work hard and those that take the easy way out. Yes, I live here. Yes, I work here. And, yes, I'm defending it b/c what's written on a celebrity gossip site is not indicative of an entire group of people or industry. This is all entertainment and the 'Hollywood/L.A. is evil period' argument is getting old. If I'm going to have my chops busted for ocassionally mentioning that 'for the love of god please proofread before posting' then I'm going to bust balls for everytime the 'Hollywood is evil' argument comes up.
ReplyDeleteI'll take Johnny Depp with Vanessa Paradis the actress he fled the country to be with, permanent status *check*, beater *check* just not sure who the actress before was, maybe Winona?
ReplyDeleteYeah...It must be old hollywood. The actor is still living and it sounds like the actress passed away. I think Ryan and Farah are a pretty good guess. It just seems to be similar BV's over and over again with the same people as guesses.
ReplyDeleteThe scar above her lip should be an easy clue? Unless she had it fixed I guess.
ReplyDeleteAnjelica Huston also dated RFO, and we all know what a stand up guy he is...
ReplyDeleteNone of the following has won an Oscar, so they are out:
ReplyDeleteDepp
Baldwin
Quaid
O'Neal
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ReplyDeleteOh, @Robert, good one!
ReplyDeleteFirst time commenter, but to be different: Ben Affleck as the actor, JLo as the actress--she moved onto Skelator, arguably worse. Movie role she missed? Velma Kelly in Chicago--she was rumored to be up for the part.
ReplyDeleteI just looked at some pics of Sondra Locke, and it doesn't look like she has an irregularities at/above her top lip. But maybe when he said there WAS a scar, it was cleaned up through plastic surgery.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Sondra write a tell-all?
ReplyDeleteI saw above that someone said the title made them think of Rage Against the Machine. What about the title being a play on Dylan Thomas' poem with the line "rage against the dying of the light"? Is there anyone that has famously quoted that in an oscar-winning role?
ReplyDeleteProbably way over-thinking this...
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ReplyDeleteNot that I really think this, but as someone alluded to rage in the title, how about Robert DeNiro - Raging Bull?
ReplyDelete@ skydives1 - I liked your guess :
ReplyDeleteJason Patric (who left w/Julia) and Robin Wright (who married Penn).
@Amber, I was wondering the same thing too.
ReplyDeleteRichard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor starred in an adaptation of Under Milk Wood, but I don't think they fit. Burton never won an Oscar.
I've been googling the hell out of "actresses with upper lip scar" and I've come up with nothing.
ReplyDeleteFRUSTRATING!
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ReplyDeleteI'd like to put Connery with someone for this one...
ReplyDeleteJason Patric never won an Oscar
ReplyDelete"Rage against the dying of the light" is quoted by Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds....
I could see this being her with the plastic surgery she has had..but dont think she dated an Oscar winner. Did she date Kevin Costner?
I agree this sounds old Hollywood, but I can't see Beatty as a lady beater. But Enty hints that the actor may have gotten control of his age issues, so I guess Beatty fits.
ReplyDeleteHahaha, I was trying to make "rage against the dying of the light" work too, but can't come up with anything *L*.
ReplyDeleteImho its ryan and farrah. They were the stuff lifetime movies only wish they could be... but she was also with Lee Majors and he gave her visable scars... so maybe him.
ReplyDeletei'm going to guess kathleen turner and michael douglas for something different
ReplyDeleteLindsay Wagner (the Bionic Woman) has an upper-lip scar. I don't know if she ever dated anyone THAT famous though. It says she got it in a car accident in 1976: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0905993/bio
ReplyDeleteHa -- never mind; I was thinking only the MAN was A-list, didn't realize the woman was too.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it can be Ryan and Farrah. She was with Lee Majors 1973-1982, and he wasn't an Oscar-winner. RFO came afterward. If their relationships were flip-flopped maybe.
ReplyDeleteyeah thats true... but i do suspect it must be an older copule.
Deletecouple.
Delete@Grey, thanks. I guess that also eliminates Ryan O'Neal (no Oscar).
ReplyDeleteWho had had OBVIOUS dental work. Scar+Caps(implants)
ReplyDeleteSorry. Has had
DeleteI don't think that the actress is dead, at least I didn't take that away after reading this. What about Mel Gibson? For some reason he came to mind but I'm too lazy to delve any deeper :)
ReplyDeleteIf it is Old Hollywood - here's my guess:
ReplyDeleteRaging actor: George C. Scott (starred in Rage, 1972)
Scarred actress: Ava Gardner (she dated Scott around 1965-67, they had a violent alcohol-fueled relationship and it was known he beat her)
Role that went to another actress: Mrs. Robinson in the Graduate, 1967 (Anne Bancroft was nominated for an Oscar, although she didn't win)
It doesn't fit 100% - but I was reminded of Kenneth Branagh dumping Emma Thompson for Helena Bonham Carter, and all the rumors of infidelities during their marriage...
ReplyDeleteSean Penn & Robin Wright
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Jack and Anjelica. She's got a tell-all memoir coming out next year that he's been trying to stop, so I'm assuming that's where this new info is originating from. They both have said that the other was the love of their life, but they just weren't able to make it work, with all the cheating and abuse (alcohol, drugs, etc). He said in an interview that he regrets leaving her for Rebecca Broussard...
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ReplyDeletenick cage or billy bob
ben harper
@Nienhulm: I think the vitrol was for Whocaresnow and not your comment. It seemed very innocuous to me at least.
ReplyDelete@Diana: I hear what you're saying. I remind myself that this is gossip so these BI's could be BS. It just makes everyone sound like asses when in fact if it really were that bad, people would not be flocking there. My faith in the human race tells me that there are not that many jerks women beaters, drug abusers and power hungry assholes located in such a small area. We just revel in the bad stuff because we never (or almost) hear the good stuff. I think everyone really likes the blinds where someone has commited a selfless act and given of themselves.
@Carolyn: I think you nailed it. Except the Oscar part but then these can sometimes be fudged a bit.
@Grey, Rodney Dangerfield also read "Rage against the dying of the light," in Back to School. :)
ReplyDelete@Grey, you mean Jason Patric didn't win an Oscar for Lost Boys or Speed 2? ;-) I actually missed that the actor had won an Oscar.
ReplyDeletePfeiffer/Kostner/Val Kilmer
ReplyDeletePfeiffer has/had a upper lip central scar. See picture at http://people.zap2it.com/p/michelle-pfeiffer/1341
She turn down Silence of the lambs Clarice Starling role that went to Jodie Foster- Oscar for leading role 1991.
I had no idea that George C Scott was that way! Damn, now I can no longer laugh when I think of him in Dr. Strangelove.
ReplyDeleteOff to see that Michele link....
Oh and I just can't see this being A Houston, I know it's silly to judge from appearances and roles, but she just seems like such a strong woman who wouldn't take such crap.
battered and abused celebrities: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.114929568583830.20039.100002003634662&type=3
ReplyDeleteMichelle Pfeiffer WAS in Scarface.
ReplyDelete@MsGirl, looks can be deceiving. Sometimes the strongest-looking people are dying inside.
ReplyDeleteJames Woods/Sean Young
ReplyDeleteWhat about Nick Cage for the actor?
ReplyDeletenick cage or billy bob
ReplyDeletelaura dern
ben harper
@msgirl - don't forget, Angelica Huston was around when Roman Polanski raped that girl (at Jack Nicholson's house).
ReplyDeleteOh wow...lots of great guesses! I also think this is an old Hollywood blind and I also think the actress is dead. Abusers should not be protected in Hollywood not matter what!
ReplyDeleteSurfer Yeah, you're right, I just like thinking of her as a classy strong woman. I didn't know she was at that party. How old was she?
ReplyDeleteI went and looked at pix of Michelle Pfeiffer I don't see any scar but maybe someone else does? Because I too thought of Scarface,
Sean Connery has a reputation for beating women, was A-list (and probably still is), and won an oscar for the Untouchables.
ReplyDeleteI thought Sean Connery too, this sounds like Old Hollywood and makes me think of an old blind where Sean Connery was the answer. I can't think of too many actors I could picture maintaining that level of violent anger. A couple, but the rest doesn't fit.
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was Sean Penn.
ReplyDeleteThen I thought of Alec Baldwin.
Jack Nicholson and Angelica Houston didn't have any children together. BI implies they did.
But otherwise, the clues could fit.
Steve McQueen is dead. BI implies wife beater du jour is alive.
It's not O.J.
What the hell is wrong with women?
msgirl - IMDB says she was born in 1951, and was with Jack from 1973-1989. So she would've been in her 20s-30s. That's all I have.
ReplyDeleteSean Connery is another great guess.
Do you recall many years ago Jack Nicholson was in trouble with the law after a prostitute claimed he beat her up?
ReplyDeleteAnd remember the golf club road rage incident?
Yeah, the pieces are beginning to fall into place.
Currently reading Peter Biskind's book "Star" about Warren Beatty and there is no mention of him beaing a woman beater. Whn he was done with wood he was hot and into it with Julie Christie who despite being a waify little creature could hold her own. either.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this is Antonio Bananas either. Just thought it woud be fun to call him Antonio Bananas.
Don;t mind my typing errors today. Due to surgery I'm higher than Rihanna at a glaucoma meeting.
ReplyDeleteI don't comment much anymore but I have to say....either reveal on July 4th, or please...some other someone "hint hint" weigh in please?
ReplyDeleteIt's not Sean Connery. He openly admitted to having hit his wife.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Halle Berry and Eddie Murphy, not sure who the actress was but she married David Justice who beat her up. The rumor is she is deaf in one ear from a former BF
ReplyDeleteAlso Eddie won for Dream Girls
ReplyDeleteJack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston sounds as if it could be right, although I don't know who she would be with after him who would be abusive. About 10 years ago, she told my sister that she had *some* stories about Jack way beyond the golf-club-in-traffic incident.
ReplyDeleteI have a scar on my upper lip...but I'm not an actress so I don't fit. (Also mine was from bullying by way of dogdeball in 2nd grade gym class, not domestic violence.)
ReplyDelete@JasonBE: surgery? Everything ok? I hope you have a speedy recovery!
ReplyDeleteIIRC, the next person Anjelica was involved with was her now-husband, and I've never heard anything about him allegedly being abusive.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Eddie Murphy has never won an Oscar--he was nominated for Dreamgirls, but lost. IIRC, the feeling was that the movie he had out during Oscar season, Norbert, was sufficiently both bad and mean-spirited that it turned off a lot of voters.
Robin - Anjelica was widowed in 2008. I vaguely remember hearing something years ago about him/them. I don't want to besmirch the dead, and I could be wrong, but I think they had some problems. Whether it was an anger issue, I'm not sure.
ReplyDeleteProbably way off but the only actress with a lip scar I can find is Tina Fey.
ReplyDeleteSadly, Tina Fey was slashed on the face while playing in her own front yard as a little girl. Not her.
ReplyDeleteI want to say this is Tom Cruise... girlfriend with scar is Penelope Cruz and he showed up in Europe with Katie Holmes out of nowhere. Penelope ended up with Javier Bardem after that...I don't see pothead Matthew as a girlfriend beater, so I am assuming Javier for the win?? I just can't remember a movie role that Pen turned down:(
ReplyDeleteNot Sean Young. I've worked with her and any guy who ever hit her would be sorry indeed that he had made such a grievous error in judgment.
ReplyDeleteI'm on the Pfeiffer train on this one. Kelley is a bastard, I remember how draconian his standards were for the women's weight on his shows...I can see him being a wife beater.
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ReplyDeleteI think this is Mickey Rourke and Carie Otis.
ReplyDeletemaybe Pfeiffer, and the silence of the lambs role, but do we honestly think that Jodie Foster slept with a man???
ReplyDeleteI love the Costner/Pheiffer guess. I think A.R has it.
ReplyDeleteP.S.- Don't feed the trolls.
How on earth is it Pfeiffer/Costner?! When did they date? She was married to Peter Horton from '81-'88, then with Fisher Stevens, then with David E. Kelley. Never ever heard of her with Costner.
ReplyDelete"What the hell is wrong with women?"
ReplyDeleteDon't EVEN start with the blame-the-victim crap. Study some info on DV/IPV and you'll learn that the problem lies with the batterers, not their victims. Although I would think that this should be obvious.
Sweet God, why are the victims/survivors still blamed in 2012?!
AKM, was just coming in to say exactly that. THANK YOU.
ReplyDeleteSean penn and robin wright.
ReplyDeleteRobin wright would have fit the role in Shakespeare In Love that went to Gwyneth who won an Oscar.
Sean and Robin were married for a long time. The blind makes it sound like this couple wasn't married. But Sean is actually a good guess. He supposedly beat Madonna when they were married, but I think that was a one time only thing because she walked right after it.
ReplyDeleteI think this is the Ryan O'Neal Melanie Griffith blind redux. I'm guessing the one he moved on to was Farrah.
ReplyDeleteRyan O'Neal doesn't have an Oscar.
ReplyDeleteIt's Al Pacino Jill Clayburgh and Diane Keaton.
ReplyDeleteI think you're right, BeagleMaMa. Totally fits. Good job.
ReplyDeleteMickey Rourke with Kim Basinger who went on to marry Alec Baldwin.
ReplyDeleteI think this is about Sean Connery and Diane Cilento, she wrote an autobiography a few years back that said he mentally and physically abused her. He has lived in Spain for a long time as I recall with his current wife.
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