Nic Cage famously “went broke” (ie, had to sell some of his stuff) due to wild spending on castles, Lamborghinis, dinosaur skulls, and cobra anti-venom (note: none of those things are exaggerations), and today Yahoo has an article about him recently paying back $6 million he owed the IRS. Good for him, that. But for our purposes, the part of the story that’s even better is at the bottom, where Yahoo runs down a few of Nic Cage’s career “highlights.” I’ve covered all of these stories before, but a trip down memory lane is always welcome, and it’s fun to see them all in one place:

- [In April 2011] According to police, Cage was heavily intoxicated and violent, arguing with his wife, Alice Kim, in a tattoo parlor and on the street. Later, he punched a few cars.

- [In December 2010] While leaving a night club in Romania where he was promoting “Ghost Rider,” the actor exploded into a rage during an altercation with a companion.
Cage was taped screaming: “I thought we were brothers, man,” and “I’ll die in the name of honor.”

- During a chat with David Letterman to promote his film “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” Cage told the story of how he and his cat, Louis, did psychedelic mushrooms together.
He said that after a daylong staring contest with the cat he “had no doubt that he was my brother.”

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As insane as the characters he plays in his movies, screaming at iguanas that may not even be there, punching women, dressing as a bear – it’s possible Nic Cage might be even crazier in real life. He did name his son after Superman and go broke buying castles and dinosaur skulls, after all. That the real-life stories from Nic Cage’s life had never made it to the big screen before is an untapped well of material the likes of which the world has never seen. Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon (of Reno 911!, but also the writers behind Night at the Museum, Balls of Fury, The Pacifier, and Taxi ) may become the first to correct this grave mistake as Lionsgate has picked up their script, Action No. 1, based on the true story of Nic Cage’s stolen Superman comic. Specifically, Action Comics No. 1, the landmark 1938 comic that introduced Superman.

The theft of Cage’s comic made real-world headlines in 2000. The issue was missing until 2011, when it was discovered among the contents of an abandoned storage locker. It sold for a record $2.1 million at auction in November.

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This is a few days old, but Classic Movies Subtitled for Bros is a pretty clutch idea. Me and Burnsy totes would’ve thought of this, but we had to take over dawn patrol shit after Asian Steve fingered Tri-Delt Katie at the hay ride and ended up getting tazed by the cops. It was so weak, dude. |via Buzzfeed|

MORNING LINKS
Louis C.K’s New, New Testament: 20 Commandments to Live By |Warming Glow|

ROFLMNBAO: Kobe’s Black Mask, 2012-2012 |With Leather|

Frotcast 90: Comedian Matt Lieb, Big Money Rustlas, Laremy talks John Carter |Film Drunk|

Lady who reviewed the Olive Garden confused by her sudden Internet Fame |UPROXX|

Psychedelic Nic Cage originally via SomethingAwful

Coors Is Going To Start Making Iced Tea Flavored Beer |Buzzfeed|

Lindsay Lohan is back to being a redhead. Now, if she’ll just stop injecting things into her face and doing drugs. |TheSuperficial|

Ashley Olsen quits acting. A nation mourns. |Videogum|

20 legends who finished with different teams. |MentalFloss|

25 things Lethal Weapon taught us. |ModernMan|

Pat Robertson now wants to legalize weed. Wait, weed is illegal? |TheDailyWhat|

Bisexual female characters are TV’s hot new thing. In other news, TV just got AWESOME |FARK|

Are half nipples considered NSFW? Up to you, man, up to you. They look nice though. |GorillaMask|

The collected trailers of all 13 Stanley Kubrick films. |Screenjunkies|

Rush Limbaugh once had a line of extremely ugly neckties. |HolyTaco|

Ten Actors We Wish Were More Talented Than They Are |Pajiba|

Our 10 Favorite Adam Sandler Leading Ladies in Movies |Unreality|

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Opening Everywhere or Somewhere: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, The Secret World of Arietty, This Means War, Bullhead

FilmDrunk Suggests: Vince really liked Bullhead, in case you haven’t read his review, so if it’s available near you, go check that out and tell people that you saw it because you read Vince’s review. Otherwise, I really liked Safe House, because it was a lot of fun watching Ryan Reynolds get his ass kicked. It was like Van Wilder: The Rise of Bourne.

Also, if you’re hanging out in the San Fran area, make sure you swing on by Vince’s screening of The FP. Check out event details here on the ol’ Facebook, and tell them Burnsy sent ya. They’ll ask, “Who?” but they know. Those kidders, they know.

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This is one of those supercuts that comes along that’s so obvious you wonder why no one thought of it sooner. Those are the best kind. Thanks to Adam Chitwood from Collider (HA HA! ‘CHITWOOD!’ HIS NAME IS PRACTICALLY ADAM POOP BONER!) for this comprehensive look at the greatest Nic Cage quotes created by MovieMiscellany. Nic Cage is a fascinating study because his acting range goes all the way from “legitimately good” to “so unbelievably terrible it’s kind of good.” My personal theory is that he’s crazier than a shithouse rat full of cobra venom and the massive variance in acting ability stems from the varying talents of the directors that he’s worked with. He needs a guy like Werner Herzog (Bad Lieutenant) or Spike Jonze (Adaptation) or the Coen Brothers (Raising Arizona) to tell him when to release the pigs and when to settle down and stop screaming for no reason. The guy clearly has a lot of energy, and some directors (*cough* Michael Bay! *cough, cough*) don’t seem to feel it necessary to take him aside and say, “Hey, Nic. Uh, me and the producers were thinking, this line where you’re supposed to be bonding with your daughter, maaaaaybe you shouldn’t scream it at the top of your lungs? Just a thought.”

That’s by far the best part of this trailer, wondering why he’s screaming 80% of these lines. He has a real-life case of that disease from Austin Powers where you can’t seem to CONTROL the VOLUME OF YOUR voice.

TRIVIA: The famous “NOT THE BEES!” scene from Wicker Man isn’t in here because it’s actually an alternate ending and not in the movie.

See also: Five minutes of Nic Cage losing his shit, below:

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