I understand that people get crotchety when they get older. They complain about the kids driving up and down the street in their Hummer, blasting their offensive rap music while dancing on top of the car, and they never acted that way when they were that age. Okay that was all me. But I don’t feel I need to wait until I’m 90 to complain when I can do it with a lot more energy now. But I am a little nobody, and last time I checked no one has come to see any of my movies. So my ranting and raving generally goes unnoticed. When a fairly big movie star bitches and moans like a 90 year old, people are going to pay attention. And they are going to call him a cranky old lady.

Rupert Everett, the British actor who first came to prominence back in 1997 with “My Best Friend’s Wedding” is apparently having a REALLY bad day. He recently gave an interview with the UK Independent in which he went off an most of Hollywood’s big-name actors. We’re not sure what any of these people did to Rupert, but there’s flames coming out of his ears.

“[George] Clooney thinks that, provided he does films which are politically committed, he’s allowed to do Ocean’s 11, 12, and 13”, he says. “But the Ocean’s movies are a cancer to world culture. They’re destroying us.” And Clooney the man? “He’s not the brightest spark on the boulevard. He’ll be president one day. Mark my words, if he’s straight, he’ll be president.”

Of the other Hollywood legends at the end of his tongue lashing, Everett told interviewer Amol Rajan: “De Niro, Redford, Keaton, Allen, Pacino … They’re all just tragic parodies of themselves. Al Pacino looks like a mad old freak now. I say give it a rest, or go and do some serious stuff… The other day I saw a film called Because I Said So with Diane Keaton, and I thought, ‘here’s one of the women we loved most in 1970s cinema, debasing and humiliating herself in this load of trash’.

“Why? Because we’re sheep, we just follow the herd … It’s just part of the huge amount of product that’s put out now that’s really bad. And it’s our fault. We’re all responsible for how the culture is. You can’t draw a distinction between the celebrity nonsense on television and the film industry.”

[From the Huffington Post]

I really don’t like making “time of the month” jokes because they’re a) they’re offensive, and imply that a woman doesn’t have a right to her feelings, b) to say it about a man implies that by doing something irrational he is acting like a woman, thus implying women are irrational and c) the jokes are played out, lame, and not funny. With all that said… damn girl! He must be seriously PMSing. Talk about a crazy diatribe. From the context of the article, it’s hard to know what in the world got Rupert so riled up. But it sort of seems like he was just itching to go off, and maybe had a bit of this planned out. Either that or he’s really quick with the insults.

I don’t know a lot about Rupert’s body of work, but I know that in his upcoming moving, “St Trinian’s,” he plays a headmistress who looks exactly like Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. I swear to God you could bump into one and mistake him/her for the other. Beyond that I don’t know what the film is about… though it hardly seems like it’s bound to be an Oscar-netting drama. I’m not quite sure how everyone else is a “just tragic parody” while Rupert is wearing pantyhose but still filled with artistic integrity.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Rupert Everett is shown at the Stardust premiere in London on 10/3/07, thanks to PRPhotos.