Having directed Fight Club, Zodiac, The Game, and Seven, I’ve long considered David Fincher one of the better directors around.  But to be honest, before today, I didn’t even know what he looked like. Now, according to Page 6, he’s kind of a dick.

DIRECTOR David Fincher is not helping his movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” with his imperious ways. “We are working our asses off trying to get Oscar nominations, and he is so abusive that it’s crushing,” said an insider at Paramount. “Whatever we do, it’s not enough.” After an LA screening, Fincher was rude to John Goldwyn, who was running Paramount in the early ’90s when the movie…was first in development. After Goldwyn congratulated Fincher, “he hit Goldwyn in the chest with his hand and hurt him and said, ‘That’s for you, for not greenlighting the movie when you had a chance.’ ”
Our insider said, “If we never hear the name David Fincher again, it will be too soon.” [NYPost]

Hmm, I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, Post, but your source seems to speak only in unnecessary hyperbole and semi-nonsensical cliché.  Have you considered the possibility that your source might be, well, and I hate to say this, but… kind of a fruit bag?  Big tough guys like me and Finch’, we get a little physical when we’re excited, that’s all.  No reason to start throwing around accusations, or claims of domestic violence.  If we’re guilty of anything, it’s loving too much.