The clock has run out on “24″ — but not on Kiefer Sutherland’s thirst for rough-and-tumble action. The hard-partying star was drunk, disorderly and shirtless at 4 a.m. yesterday as four huge bodyguards dragged him out of a London strip club and threw him into a car.
Sutherland — who’s finished filming the eighth and final season of the hit series, which has six episodes yet to air — started the evening at the bar of the Covent Garden Hotel, where he sampled several different wines, with empty stemmed glasses lined up in front of him.
“Eventually a mate showed up and in between drinks, they popped outside for a ciggie,” a witness said. “Kiefer carried on drinking in the bar till 2 a.m. He was then driven to Stringfellow’s Gentlemen’s Club.”
Photos taken about two hours later show a shirtless Sutherland, looking nothing like Jack Bauer, being thrown out the back door of the mammary mecca by four tuxedo-clad bouncers, one of whom had him in a headlock. He was shoved into the back seat of a car and brought back to his hotel, where staff helped him to his room.
Sutherland’s lawyer and publicist did not return calls seeking comment. But it was hardly the first time Sutherland has gotten rowdy after a few too many drinks.
Last May, he apologized to fashion designer Jack McCullaugh after head-butting him at the SubMercer lounge after the Metropolitan Museum of Art fashion gala. In 2007, he spent 48 days in jail in Los Angeles for his second drunken-driving arrest.
“It’s been the biggest problem for me,” Sutherland told Rolling Stone the year before. “I have a few drinks and I’m not so worried about tomorrow and not thinking about yesterday. I am in this moment and I don’t give a [bleep] about anything else, and that’s that. It’s right out of the textbook on problem drinkers.”
Bunk and Lester are back! The creators of HBO’s acclaimed series The Wire have an upcoming series Treme, focusing on post-Katrina New Orleans. Knowing how great The Wire is, this show should be just as gangsta, or at least almost so.
Without question, “Sons of Anarchy” is the best show on television right now. I was hooked last season, and the season opener from last week blew me away. Quite frankly, it’s only a matter of time before I consider this show being on par with “The Sopranos”, “The Wire”, and “The Shield” in terms of “classic” status - it’s that good (and intense).
What I like most is the show’s pacing and vision. At times, I would be frustrated with “The Sopranos” because there would be long stretches without any whackings or gangster shit (mainly after its third season). This is NOT the case with “Sons of Anarchy”. Like “The Sopranos”, the show’s main theme is the examination of a family (SAMCRO instead of the Soprano crime family) and the family’s internal conflicts, with the family’s feuds with other gangs and daily business doings working as secondary plot devices. However, there is literally what I like to call “gangster ass shit” going down in every episode. Even in the most dramatic episode, the creator will not forget to insert some type of ill shootout or revenge whacking.
Jax is clearly the dopest character on television right now. If I was an actor, I would have done whatever possible to get this role. He’s not a “good” person in the conventional sense, but within the context of his world, he is the most grounded and respectable - often engaging in illegalities (such as clipping rival gang members, which he does QUITE frequently) out of necessity as opposed to desire. But don’t get it twisted - he’s not some tortured soul who can’t come to terms with the life he chose, he “gets er done” at any means necessary and is driven by loyalty and brotherhood above anything else. His relationship with his tough as nails mom and his stepfather, Clay (the current president of SAMCRO), provides the show’s dramatic backbone. Sometimes I think Martin (another writer on this site) and I should be casting directors cause we called how dope Charlie Hunnam was (the actor who plays “Jax”) after seeing “Green Street Hooligans” yeaaaars ago.
Other dope characters include Bobby “Elvis” Munson, the Jewish treasurer of SAMCRO (who, like Wee-Bey from “The Wire”, is a stone cold killer who would take any prison sentence given to him over ratting on his boys), Filip “Chibs” Telford, a Scottish badass who is not only part of the SAMCRO’s muscle, but is also the gang’s resident medic, and “Juice”, the mohawked tech (although he is seen as the least intelligent of the group besides his technical prowess).
Has anyone seen those annoying TGIF commercials with this “average joe” shnook “Woody”? First off, I know that those two “friends” at the table with him are hired actors. I recognize one of them from like a million other commercials. Also, I hate “average guys on a night out” commercials like this - Woody, shut your fucking face!!!!!!!
Tron Legacy, the sequal to Tron, looks pretty dope, but more exciting is DAFT PUNK composing 24 tracks for the score to the film. It is set to release December 2010…that’s TWO Christmas/Chanukahs away…FML. OK not FML but you can sense my anxiety and love for Daft Punk, check out this teaser trailer revealed @ComicCon
Sutherland — who’s finished filming the eighth and final season of the hit series, which has six episodes yet to air — started the evening at the bar of the Covent Garden Hotel, where he sampled several different wines, with empty stemmed glasses lined up in front of him.
Without question, “Sons of Anarchy” is the best show on television right now. I was hooked last season, and the season opener from last week blew me away. Quite frankly, it’s only a matter of time before I consider this show being on par with “The Sopranos”, “The Wire”, and “The Shield” in terms of “classic” status - it’s that good (and intense).
