Christian Bale tirade: the fall-out continues

The fallout from actor Christian Bale's on-set tirade continues to entertain Hollywood, with bloggers, musicians and now comedy artists having a field day with the audio tape that surfaced earlier this week. The now infamous tape was made during the filming last summer of Terminator Salvation when Bale, filming a scene with the actress Bryce Dallas Howard, had his concentration broken by a hapless director of photography. Bale lost his rag - "I want you off the fucking set, you prick" - and the rest is history.

As reported here on Tuesday, first out of the blocks was the LA producer RevoLucian with a club remix - Bale Out - that has done great business on YouTube. Since then the LA band The Mai Shi have produced a pop version and now the comedian Rob Delaney has put out a comedy.com video in which he pretends to be head of public relations at Warner Bros, and defends the integrity of the great Bale - a "tornado of pain and talent".

On a more serious note, some in Hollywood wonder whether the episode will have spoiled Bale's dream of winning an Oscar. Terminator Salvation is hardly Oscar material, but the John Dillinger film, Public Enemies, in which Bale appears with Johnny Depp, has been talked up as a 2010 Academy Awards contender.

Writing for The Envelope, Tom O'Neil warns that hell-raisers from Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton through to Russell Crowe have all suffered at the hands of the Academy - and Bale had better watch his back.

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