Produced by Emrhys Cooper and conceived by accomplished playwright, Guillermo Reyes, the play explores a wide range of subjects that include the paparazzi, erectile dysfunction, cults and the son of Lee Harvey Oswald. Woven together with an imagining of Cuba’s Elian Gonzales, the play touts a strong apocalyptic message, pointing out that technology is no substitute for human communication.

Besides the plentiful laughter, audience interaction and political satire, the play also touches on the death of the playwright’s mother from cancer.  It is a sobering moment in the show but one from which we are quickly diverted.

The scenes are mostly brisk and fast paced, with effective visuals and a wide range of costumes and props that make for a fun hour and fifteen minutes.

Expertly directed by Paul Storiale, “This Way to Your Ritual Lobotomy” is an impressive and well executed effort. Felix Pare is outstanding.

The show runs Fridays and Saturdays and is well worth a look. Tickets are $20.

We give it: **** (four stars)

The Avery Schreiber Theatre is located at 11050 Magnolia Blvd. North Hollywood CA 91601

Phone:818-766-9100

Website: http://www.averyschreibertheatre.com

RadarOnline.com has obtained a tape of actor Mel Gibson ranting and shouting at his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva.

In the tape Mel is heard blasting Grigorieva for the way she is dressed, telling her ,”you look like a f—— pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of n——, it will be your fault.”

Gibson also tells Grigorieva  he will burn down her home.

His latest outburst came during a series of explosive arguments with Grigorieva, mother of his infant daughter Lucia. They have been battling in court, with documents under seal, for the past several weeks.

Previously, Gibson shocked the world with his anti-Semetic comments when busted for a DUI in Malibu.  He eventually made an attempt at an appology via a Diane Sawyer interview, though many felt it was not enough, and Gibson never fully articulated an “I’m sorry.”

Even earlier this year, when the anti-Semetic issue was gingerly brought up, Gibson was prickly and defensive. During an interview with KTLA’s Sam Rubin, who suggested that some people in Hollywood might never want to work with him again after his “remarks,” a wild-eyed Gibson leaned in and said to the Jewish reporter: “I gather you have a dog in this fight?”

Days before, he had stormed out of an interview with the Los Angeles Times’ Geoff Boucher. (He resumed the interview later.)

Now, the new racist outburst has taken the Oscar winner to an even deeper low.

You can hear his racist, misogynistic rant here.

or visit www.RadarOnline.com

Set in a small California town, “Touchback” beautifully captures ordinary people living ordinary lives.

The film deals with Ted, a teenage boy who begins to see the older brother he has always idolized in a different light.  Ted realizes he must choose between following in his brother’s lost footsteps or try to find his own way in the world.

Lorenzo James Henrie and Alex Frost give fine, nuanced performances as the two brother. Portia Doubleday is excellent as the pregnant but maligned girlfriend whose betrayal by Frost’s character sets a chain of unfortunate events in motion.

Other cast members include Haley Ramm, Alex Russell, and veteran actor, Billy Campbell.

“Touchback” was produced by Chase B. Kenney. It screens on Wednesday, June 23rd, at 3:00 p.m.

The Silent Theater is located at 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 90036.

Throughout my seven months since September 26, 2009, the date of my arrest at Zurich Airport, where I had landed with a view to receiving a lifetime award for my work from the representative of the Swiss Minister of Culture, I have refrained from making any public statements and have requested my lawyers to confine their comments to a bare minimum. I wanted the legal authorities of Switzerland and the United States, as well as my lawyers, to do their work without any polemics on my part.

I have decided to break my silence in order to address myself directly to you without any intermediaries and in my own words.

I have had my share of dramas and joys, as we all have, and I am not going to try to ask you to pity my lot in life. I ask only to be treated fairly like anyone else.

It is true: 33 years ago I pleaded guilty, and I served time at the prison for common law crimes at Chino, not in a VIP prison. That period was to have covered the totality of my sentence. By the time I left prison, the judge had changed his mind and claimed that the time served at Chino did not fulfill the entire sentence, and it is this reversal that justified my leaving the United States.

This affair was roused from its slumbers of over three decades by a documentary film-maker who gathered evidence from persons involved at the time. I took no part in that project, either directly or indirectly. The resulting documentary not only highlighted the fact that I left the United States because I had been treated unjustly; it also drew the ire of the Los Angeles authorities, who felt that they had been attacked and decided to request my extradition from Switzerland, a country I have been visiting regularly for over 30 years without let or hindrance.

I can now remain silent no longer!

I can remain silent no longer because the American authorities have just decided, in defiance of all the arguments and depositions submitted by third parties, not to agree to sentence me in absentia even though the same Court of Appeal recommended the contrary.

I can remain silent no longer because the California court has dismissed the victim’s numerous requests that proceedings against me be dropped, once and for all, to spare her from further harassment every time this affair is raised once more.

I can remain silent no longer because there has just been a new development of immense significance. On February 26 last, Roger Gunson, the deputy district attorney in charge of the case in 1977, now retired, testified under oath before Judge Mary Lou Villar in the presence of David Walgren, the present deputy district attorney in charge of the case, who was at liberty to contradict and question him, that on September 16, 1977, Judge Rittenband stated to all the parties concerned that my term of imprisonment in Chino constituted the totality of the sentence I would have to serve.

I can remain silent no longer because the request for my extradition addressed to the Swiss authorities is founded on a lie. In the same statement, retired deputy district attorney Roger Gunson added that it was false to claim, as the present district attorney’s office does in their request for my extradition, that the time I spent in Chino was for the purpose of a diagnostic study.

The said request asserts that I fled in order to escape sentencing by the U.S. judicial authorities, but under the plea-bargaining process I had acknowledged the facts and returned to the United States in order to serve my sentence. All that remained was for the court to confirm this agreement, but the judge decided to repudiate it in order to gain himself some publicity at my expense.

I can remain silent no longer because for over 30 years my lawyers have never ceased to insist that I was betrayed by the judge, that the judge perjured himself, and that I served my sentence. Today it is the deputy district attorney who handled the case in the 1970s, a man of irreproachable reputation, who has confirmed all my statements under oath, and this has shed a whole new light on the matter.

I can remain silent no longer because the same causes are now producing the same effects. The new District Attorney, who is handling this case and has requested my extradition, is himself campaigning for election and needs media publicity!

I can no longer remain silent because the United States continues to demand my extradition more to serve me on a platter to the media of the world than to pronounce a judgment concerning which an agreement was reached 33 years ago.

I can remain silent no longer because I have been placed under house arrest in Gstaad and bailed in very large sum of money which I have managed to raise only by mortgaging the apartment that has been my home for over 30 years, and because I am far from my family and unable to work.

Such are the facts I wished to put before you in the hope that Switzerland will recognize that there are no grounds for extradition, and that I shall be able to find peace, be reunited with my family, and live in freedom in my native land.

Roman Polanski

Polanski’s release would not happen immediately and the Ministry still had to decide whether to appeal against the filmmaker’s release.

The 76-year-old Oscar-winning director, who holds dual French and Polish citizenship, was arrested at the request of the United States when he flew into Switzerland on September 26 to receive a lifetime achievement prize at a film festival.

The DA calls it unfinished business and does not rule out asking for a lengthy sentence for the 76 year old Academy Award winning director once he is returned to California to face justice.

You can read the full story here:

http://www.slate.com/id/2232546/

A statement released last night by his publicist, Annett Wolf stated, “Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” No other details were given.

Swayze was best know for his role in the 1987 film “Dirty Dancing” and the 1990 blockbuster “Ghost.”

He will be missed.

You would think all that acclaim and success might be enough to make the lady more secure on a TV set. Not the case. Reports continue to surface that Ms. Hunter is a major, out of control diva.

According to an eyewitness who wishes to remain anonymous, Hunter had four extras sent home last week from the “Saving Grace” set.

Their crime? They dared to glance at Hunter after they were instructed not to. Another one had the audacity to say “hi” as the star walked by. The four $60 a day extras were immediately terminated by an AD.

“No eye contact” is the mantra on the “Saving Grace” set and Hunter bosses the AD’s around, insisting this rule is enforced.

This comes after the Billy Bob Thornton incident in Toronto where the actor was incredibly rude to a TV host after he dared to mention that Billy Bob is known as an actor, but was in the studio to perform with his band.

How many other insecure monsters like Hunter and Thornton do we have working in Hollywood?

Do you have any stories about tempermental stars? Tell us about it here, on Hollywood Revealed.

Meanwhile, our advise to Holly Hunter is chill out, lady. Life’s too short.

The Heavy Metal band, Anvil, shattered eardrums at the Fairfax Cinema on Monday night with a live performance that followed a sold out showing of their documentary, “Anvil! The Story of Anvil,” directed by Sacha Gervasi.

The story focuses on two aging Canadian rockers, Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner, who have been working their asses off to achieve major stardom for over thirty years. The film is both funny and touching. It is a compelling portrait of a lifelong friendship that started when these guys were in their early teens.

We first meet Anvil at a 1984 a stadium show in Japan where they share the bill with acts such as Bon Jovi, the Scorpions and Whitesnake — all of whom went on to became major rock stars stars.

Interviews with musicians such as Slash, (formerly with Guns and Roses) reveals that Anvil was the group everyone thought could change the face of heavy metal. Sadly we find them stuck in tedious day jobs in snowy Toronto, occasionally playing dumpy bars, yet still hoping and struggling to become rock legends some twenty-five years later.

The film follows Anvil through a disastrous European tour, examines the tensions that occasionally permeates the band and the heartbreak their relentless pursuit of success causes their families.

This band dreams big and never gives up. Gervasi manages to make us feel their struggle. We root for their attempt at a comeback album and ultimately follow them back to Japan where in a final emotional scene, they once again perform to a huge crowd who not only know all their songs but also shower them with love and affection.

At the Fairfax Cinema on Monday night, the director introduced the movie and made no secret of the fact that he too loves these guys. He was their former roadie back in the day, and even lost his virginity on tour with Anvil as a sixteen year old.

The capacity audience was with Gervasi from the opening frame. When the movie ended, the band members raced down the isles, picked up their instruments and wowed the crowd with a short but excellent and set. Many people sang along with the lyrics while others stood on seats to get a better view of Anvil. Camera’s flashed everywhere.

Afterward, Reiner and Kudrow signed CD’s and Anvil merchandise in the lobby, posing and chatting with old and new fans alike.

For a few hours on Monday night Anvil’s dream was a reality. We can only hope the dream continues and that this fun and well made documentary helps propel them to the heights that should have been theirs starting back in the 80’s. Not only for their sheer tenacity, but also for the fact that they are a great metal band, Anvil deserve to win.

Check out the movie’s website here: http://www.anvilthemovie.com