Steven Spielberg's Luckiest Day: Ten Years Later
It had completely slipped our minds that today is one of the most important dates on the Hollywood calendar, but thanks to a helpful reader who wanted to make sure we wouldn't forget to note it here, we now gently remind everyone to set aside a moment to celebrate Steven Spielberg's Narrowly Averted Rape Day. Explains DailyRotten.com:
Jul 11 1997 Bodybuilder and wannabe actor Jonathan Norman is arrested for trespassing on Steven Spielberg's estate in Malibu, California. Believing that the film director "wanted to be raped," Norman had brought along a kit containing handcuffs, duct tape, nipple clamps, chloroform, and a stun gun.
The celebration of the ten year anniversary of this landmark moment in show business history at Spielberg's DreamWorks office will be low-key, but still infused with fun. There will be cake, of course, decorated with caricatures of the director's favorite characters from his movies of the past decade (Haley Joel Osment's AI robot boy, the baby alien from War of the Worlds, Eric Bana's Mossad assassin from Munich) rendered in delicious frosting, but the real highlight of the party will be the Yankee Swap featuring his foiled assailant's electic variety of kidnapping tools, with staffers hoping that that their cool stun gun or nipple clamps aren't lost in a forced trade for a totally boring roll of duct tape.
