I wonder where he keeps the gerbil cages?
Richard Gere's Manhattan apartment. If you like it, it's on sale for only $17.995 million.
NOTE: “. . . is better than you” is a Friday feature showcasing multi-million dollar celebrity homes in the hopes of generating feelings of jealousy, hatred, and animosity towards said celebrity. When you get down to the entertainment-dollar-spending core of it, you helped buy that home. Sucker!
An arrest warrant has been issued for actor Richard Gere after he publicly kissed the cheek of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty last week. According to the Press Trust of India, judge Dinesh Gupta issued the warrant after receiving a complaint that the public display of affection "offended local sensibilities." The actor faces up to three months in prison if convicted. AP reports:
Gupta earlier viewed television footage of the event, which he called "highly sexually erotic," saying the pair violated India's strict public obscenity laws. According to the judge "Gere and Shetty "transgressed all limits of vulgarity and have the tendency to corrupt the society." (Source)
Crowds in several Indian cities burned effigies of Gere last week because they were so outraged at the kiss. Or maybe they were just disappointed with his performance in Dr. T and the Women (2000). Definitely one of those two.
Maybe. According to Stallone, Gere thinks he started the famous gerbil rumor because of a fight they had on the set of “The Lords of Flatbush” in 1974 over a greasy chicken:
“I was eating a hotdog and he climbs in with a half a chicken covered in mustard with grease nearly dripping out of the aluminum wrapper," said Stallone. “I said, ‘That thing is going to drip all over the place.’ He said, ‘Don’t worry about it.’ I said, ‘If it gets on my pants you’re gonna know about it.’ He proceeds to bite into the chicken and a small, greasy river of mustard lands on my thigh. I elbowed him in the side of the head and basically pushed him out of the car. The director had to make a choice: one of us had to go, one of us had to stay.”
So a guy accidentally spills mustard on your thigh and you start a nasty rumor that he likes putting gerbils up his ass? Damn. Remind me never to cross Sylvestor Stallone. It is kinda funny that this rumor has followed Gere around for his entire career. Could he ever shop at Petco without someone cracking a joke about gerbils being on sale? Probably not.
