11.09.2009 monday afternoon headlines

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AVATAR - will have cost around $500 million when it hits screens next month, so it’s already breaking records as the most expensive movie ever made, and the one people most regret investing in. WTF is this nonsense? (la times)

RIHANNA
- is a little tattle-tale, according to Chris Brown, who thinks she should have kept her mouth shut after he punched her in the face a few dozen times. Instead she went and narked.  That’s fucked up. He trusted her, and she betrayed that. What a bitch. (the sun)

BRITNEY SLAMMED DOWN UNDER - is without question the laziest suggestive headline ever written. (the sun)

LINDSAY LOHAN - was seen outside Crow in West Hollywood crying as she left Friday night. Probably because they ran out of cocaine. (star)

RAMPAGE JACKSON - was on set to film for ‘The A-Team’ in Vancouver today. Here the stuntman for Jacksons character ‘BA Baracus’ is going down the side of a building for some reason. Maybe ‘cause he didn’t have no time fo’ no jibba-jabba. (inf)


10.01.2009 first look at the new a-team

Liam Neeson, Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson, Bradley Cooper

The big screen version of ‘the A-Team’ is filming this week in British Columbia, Canada, with Liam Neeson as ‘Hannibal’, Bradley Cooper as ‘Faceman’, Sharlto Copely from ‘District 9’ as ‘Murdoch’, and Quinton Rampage Jackson - who is basically the most likable person on earth - as ‘BA Baracus’. Jessica Biel is still cast but not on set yet.

It’s directed by Joe Carnahan, who should open the movie, nay, film, with the same shot he used to open his BMW Film ‘Ticker’, because it’s awesome and perfect. Except with Rampage and the black van, instead of Clive Owen and a Z4, because that wouldn’t make any sense in this context. People would be like, this is bullshit man, and just walk out.

(16 more here. hq jump here. source = inf daily)


01.09.2009 rampage pled guilty

As you may remember, this past July UFC superstar/baddest motherfucker alive Quinton "Rampage" Jackson led OC cops on a crazy chase through city streets in his lifted Ford 350 truck after a bizarre bout with depression stemming from his loss to Forrest Griffin two weeks earlier.  Rampage was eventually captured and held face down in the street at gunpoint.    He was charged with 1 felony count of evading police while driving recklessly, 1 felony count of evading police and driving against traffic, 3 misdemeanor counts of hit and run with property damage, and 1 misdemeanor count of reckless driving.  To be fair, his nickname is Rampage.  I feel like you should be awarded some license when you do exactly what your nickname says you will.  It's not like you didn’t warn anyone.  It's the same reason I'm nicknamed Sex Machine.

Anyway, yesterday he pled down to one felony count of evading police.  He faces 6 months in jail and 200 hours of community service.  

Hopefully they’ll just give him community service, because everyone loves Quinton.  Seriously, if you nothing about MMA, know that everyone loves Quinton Jackson.  He’s basically the nicest guy in the world.  

I asked my racist mechanic about the car chase and he said maybe he got made because the store was out of purple drink.  They love that stuff, he claimed.  And I just said "yeah maybe" as I stalled for time because I didn’t know what he meant.  I’m a very sweet boy.

07.16.2008 rampage jackson is cool

Late yesterday afternoon, UFC superstar Quentin "Rampage" Jackson was arrested for his part in a s suspected hit and run in Newport Beach, California.  Details were scarce except for that kick ass picture above, but now TMZ has some details.

Rampage was on the 55 Freeway in the O.C., hit two cars and got off the freeway. The chase was on.
Rampage then began driving on the center divider. But it gets worse. According to the police report, Jackson then drove on the sidewalk, "causing pedestrians to flee for their lives." He started driving the wrong way on a crowded street, colliding with yet another car in an intersection. As he continued on, running several red lights, his tire disintegrated and he began driving on the rim.
Rampage eventually got to the exclusive Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, where he again drove on the sidewalk, "causing pedestrians to flee in terror."
Eventually, his car came to a stop and he was taken into custody at gunpoint. Cops took him to the Orange County Jail, but they determined he was "medically unfit" to be booked. Cops won't say if he was high.

It would be disappointing if Rampage did some weed and then went and drove his monster truck around, but in his defense, that shit sounds fun.

07.15.2008 rampage jackson is under arrest

Rampage Jackson is not having a good week.  Last Saturday night he lost his UFC light heavyweight title to Forrest Griffin, and just moments ago the scene above played out, after police stopped him as a suspect in a hit and run.  TMZ says…

Law enforcement sources tell us, Rampage was in a car crash near Newport Beach (that's near Laguna Beach in the O.C.) and then split the scene. Cops gave chase and eventually caught up and charged him with felony hit and run and felony evading arrest.

Rampage is maybe the most charismatic and likeable athlete to come around since Barkley, but he’s no criminal mastermind.  He committed a hit and run in a truck with his name and picture on the side.  “Can you describe the vehicle that hit you, sir?” “Yes, imagine if Rampage Jackson was a truck.”