Denise Richards' Senior Citizen Smackdown
So much for respecting your elders. Or other people's property.
Denise Richards launched a massively unsuccessful offensive against the paparazzi on the Canadian set of her new film Wednesday, hurling equipment belonging to two photographers off her hotel balcony and inadvertently striking an elderly woman in a wheelchair.
According to Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Peter Thiessen, the incident took place on the set of Blonde and Blonder, a comedy Richards is starring in alongside Pamela Anderson. The production was taking place at the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond, just outside Vancouver, where several snap-happy cameramen were chronicling the 35-year-old actress' every move.
Thiessen said that Richards objected to the unauthorized paparazzi's invasive presence and approached two of the lensmen.
No doubt putting to use some evasive maneuvers gleaned from her days as a Bond girl, Richards somehow managed to wrangle their laptops away and subsequently hurled the equipment off the balcony of her hotel.
Unfortunately, she apparently failed to clear a path for the computers' destruction down below, as one of the laptops hit an 80-year-old woman in a wheelchair in the arm.
"She was hit by two laptops and was slightly bruised on one arm," Thiessen told E! Online. "She didn't require hospitalization, and she wasn't concerned with filing any criminal charges."
As for the film's production company, Blonde and Blonder rep Howard Blanks was attempting to downplay the incident as much as possible, telling People magazine that the situation was "getting blown way out of proportion."
In fairness, though, little old ladies getting struck by flying laptops isn't exactly de rigueur movie set activities.
"Based on the actions of the paparazzi, they are lucky their laptops weren't the only things that were thrown off the ledge," Richards' publicist told the Associated Press.
Producer Dean Bornstein chimed in to the AP, claiming the paparazzi snuck onto the set and began "harassing members of the cast. "
As for the film's shoot, all's well that ends...without hospitalization.
The film's production company has agreed to pony up the damages for the computers, as well as, presumably, any subsequent medical attention. Though the cast and crew were "very upset" about the incident, Blanks told People, production resumed on the flick after just an hour break.
Blonde and Blonder, about gorgeous yet clueless friends who get mistaken for mob hit women, is due out next May.
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