Rip Torn Fully Loaded: "Men in Black" Star Broke Into Bank Drunk with Loaded Gun, Say Conn. Cops

By: Neil Katz
Topics: Daily Blotter

(New York State Police)

LITCHFIELD, Conn. (CBS/AP) Actor Elmore "Rip" Torn has a date with a Connecticut judge Monday as he faces allegations that he broke into a bank with a loaded gun while drunk.

Photo: Rip Torn's 2006 drunk driving mug shot.

State police say the 78-year-old "Men in Black" star was arrested Friday night after authorities found him inside the Litchfield Bancorp in Salisbury with a loaded revolver.

Torn was held in lieu of $100,000 bond. He is scheduled to be arraigned on burglary and firearm charges in Bantam Superior Court, about an hour northwest of Hartford.

This is not Torn's first tangle with the law. Last year, Torn was given probation in a Connecticut drunken driving case and granted permission to enter an alcohol education program. He also has two previous drunken driving arrests in New York.

A spokesman for Torn did not return phone calls.

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by jmiller1079 February 2, 2010 2:12 PM EST: I always break into my own home packing heat.; Reply to this comment


by book_of_wally February 2, 2010 8:17 AM EST: Did he enter this bank with a box of confetti and start tossing it about?; Reply to this comment


by erb0087 February 2, 2010 4:47 AM EST: Hey... Is that Tonya Harding, at 0:44 in the video ?!?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=965xgorJ0Fc; Reply to this comment


by erb0087 February 2, 2010 4:00 AM EST: by AttentionDeficit February 2, 2010 2:44 AM EST
Obama will look like a white man in 25 years?

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We'll have to check with Harry Reid about that.; Reply to this comment


by erb0087 February 2, 2010 3:25 AM EST: Shocking video of Rip Torn's arrest.

(Warning. This video contains graphic scenes and language, and may be inappropriate for younger or more sensitive bloggers. Blogger discretion is advised.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePeXWlrIMr4; Reply to this comment

by erb0087 February 2, 2010 2:33 AM EST

That mugshot was of a prior drunk driving arrest. Sorry. Maybe Rip Torn looks better in his current one.

I thought drinking alcohol was supposed to make a person look handsome, s/exy and charming.

It always did in ads for the stuff.

I don't drink, so I have to rely on Folgers to turn me into Cary Grant someday.

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by Aine57 February 2, 2010 11:08 AM EST: "I thought drinking alcohol was supposed to make a person look handsome, s/exy and charming."

Only, my dear, from the point of the DRUNK.

by erb0087 February 2, 2010 2:22 AM EST

I recommend that Rip Torn's attorney attempt a reprise of the Winona Rider defense.

After she was arrested and charged with shoplifting, Ms. Ryder's attorney asserted that she was merely doing research for a movie role about a woman who shoplifted. You know, the Stanislavsky Method of Acting.

(It wasn't that lame -- she was found guilty but she didn't go to prison.)

It's worth a try.

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by erb0087 February 2, 2010 2:28 AM EST: "You know, the Stanislavsky [sic] Method of Acting."

"Stanislavski's system is an approach to acting developed by Konstantin Stanislavski, a Russian actor, director, and theatre administrator at the Moscow Art Theatre (founded 1897). The system is the result of Stanislavski's many years of efforts to determine how someone can control in performance the most intangible and uncontrollable aspects of human behavior, such as emotions and artistic inspiration.

Konstantin Stanislavski had a dictum that he probably believed throughout his life: that one should always approach a role as directly as possible, and then see if it "lives." If the actor and the role connect, and the role comes to life, why apply a technique, a system? Such a success may only happen once or twice in one's life -- or never -- so the remainder of one's performances require technique.

However, each individual actor must decide whether or not an approach 'works' for him."


by erb0087 February 2, 2010 1:41 AM EST: Another really bad mugshot.

I certainly hope this doesn't damage Rip Torn's career.

Yes Virginia, there is such a thing as an attractive mugshot.

Olivia Namath had one of the best. Very sultry -- good enough to feature on the cover of Vogue or Cosmopolitan:

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/11/crimesider/entry6083232.shtml; Reply to this comment

by erb0087 February 2, 2010 1:35 AM EST

I thought Rip Torn was dead a while now.

I must have been thinking of Slim Pickens.

I get those two actors confused, for some reason.

RIP, Slim. (Not you, Rip. Sorry.)

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by AttentionDeficit February 2, 2010 2:47 AM EST: Slim was great. In Dr. Strangelove and in Blazing Saddles. Another along the same line was Jack Elam


by erb0087 February 2, 2010 3:43 AM EST: "One of Slim Pickens' more memorable television roles was an episode of Hawaii Five-0 where he played the patriarch of a family of serial killers."

I think I actually saw that one in replay a few months ago.


by ALBrainTrust10 February 1, 2010 9:14 PM EST: RIP TORN IS AN AWSOME COMEDIC ACTOR....HE NEEDS HELP! (Larry Saunders Show...MIB.)

Shame to lose him to The Slammer for the rest of his life!!!; Reply to this comment