Disney dilemma: Cut keith from 'pirate' movie after book tell-all?

[Mark]

DISNEY DILEMMA: CUT KEITH FROM 'PIRATE' MOVIE AFTER BOOK TELL-ALL?
Thu Oct 21 2010 17:09:46 ET

DISNEY executives are sweating it out as salty details of an upcoming book written by rocker/actor Keith Richards leak and splash.

The Rolling Stones guitarist has reprised his role as Captain Teague in the next installment of DISNEY'S 'PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN' franchise.

But now executives fear the rocker's shocking admissions in his new book, LIFE, may cause a firestorm and ignite a backlash around the family-friendly Magic Kingdom.

Among the concerns, Richards appears to detail how to safely get stoned: Use 'high-quality drugs' in moderation!

Richard writes: "It's not only the high quality of drugs I had that I attribute my survival to. I was very meticulous about how much I took. I'd never put more in to get a little higher. That's where most people f**k up on drugs."

One well-placed entertainment source explains that Snow White may end up dumping her Dopey!

"They very well could end up cutting Keith out of the new movie over this," claims the insider.

The book reached #2 on AMAZON's hit list late Thursday.

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I am not sure what Disney's problem is. They hired him knowing what he was all about, the rumors of his rock and roll lifestyle and now they are going to get their panties in a wad because he is admitting some things in his book?

If they were so worried about this then they should not have hired him in the first place.

[Josef]

Why did they hire him in the first place, he's not an actor? Was it because Johnny Depp basically modeled his character after him, so him actually being in the movie was kind of an homage to that?

[TomS70]

Disney would be stupid to cut him down, the bad PR on their end would only damage the ticket sales. His character tracked immensely popular. I watched Pirates 3 in the theater and people cheered when he first appeared in the movie.

[M.Bush]

I am not sure what Disney's problem is. They hired him knowing what he was all about, the rumors of his rock and roll lifestyle and now they are going to get their panties in a wad because he is admitting some things in his book?

If they were so worried about this then they should not have hired him in the first place.

Exactly!! The guy is how old and he's known for his hard core rock and roll lifestyle.. VERY well known.. He writes a tell-all book and Disney panics?? What about other Disney stars, actual people that got their starts with Disney, like Lindsay Lohan?? She's a walking disaster, tell-all book.....

[Jessica]

I agree with you guys. You hired a member of the Rolling Stones - a band known for a cliched lifestyle of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. What did they expect?

Look at the dude's face. It looks like the inside of a corn husk. He clearly hasn't spent the last forty years living like the Dalai Lama.

[Roogle]

They better not cut him for something EVERYONE already knows. When he was casted. They knew.

Hell. Everyone from Disney is screwed up.

[zapata2119]

come on now it's keith richards what do you expect lol

[DEMOA]

Wahooooo! LOL!

[Kid Lester]

I just read excerpts from 3 chapters of the book in Rolling Stone last night. Holy crap, is it a snoozefest. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Example:

Here's the set up. Stones have just released Exile On Main Street, and are on the North American tour for the album. They end up staying for a week at the Playboy Mansion in Chicago, of all places. The Stones, Hef, Bunnies, Dr. Bill- the tour "physician"...sex, drugs and rock and roll, baby! Here's what happened, in Keith's words.
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In Chicago, there was an acute shortage of hotel rooms, so Hugh Hefner thought it would be a laugh to invite some of us to stay in the Playboy Mansion. I think he regretted it. Hugh Hefner, what a nut. We’ve worked the lowest pimps to the highest, the highest being Hefner. He threw the place open for the Stones, and we were there for over a week. And it’s all plunges in the sauna, and the Bunnies, and basically it’s a whorehouse, which I really don’t like. The memory, however, is very, very hazy. I know we did have some fun there. I know we ripped it up. Hefner had been shot at just before our visit, and the place resembled the state house of some Caribbean dictatorship, with heavily armed security everywhere.

We had the doc there, and we’d get in one of the Bunnies for him. The deal was “We get free dibs on your bag and you can have Debbie.” I felt the script had been written, play it to the hilt. Bobby [Keys, the Stones saxophone player] and I played it a little far when we set fire to the bathroom. Well, we didn’t, the dope did. Not our fault. Bobby and I were just sitting in the john, comfortable, nice john, sitting on the floor, and we’ve got the doc’s bag and we’re just smorgasbording. “I wonder what these do?” Bong. And at a certain point . . . talk about hazy, or foggy, Bobby says, “It’s smoky in here.” And I’m looking at Bobby and can’t see him. And the drapes are smoldering away; everything was just about to go off big-time. To the point where I can’t see him, he’s disappeared in this fog.

“Yes, I guess it is a bit smoky in here.” It was a really delayed reaction. And then suddenly a flurry at the door and the fire alarms start going, beep beep beep. “What’s that noise, Bob?” “I don’t know. Should we open the window?” Someone shouts through the door, “Are you all right?” “Oh, yeah, we’re fucking great, man.” So he just turns away, and we don’t know exactly what to do. Maybe if we’re quiet and walk out and we pay for the reconstruction? And then a little later there was a thumping on the door, waiters and guys in black suits bringing buckets of water. They get the door open and we’re sitting on the floor, our pupils very pinned. I said, “We could have done that ourselves. How dare you burst in on our private affair?”

Hugh decamped soon after that and moved to L.A. Some of my most outrageous nights I can only believe actually happened because of corroborating evidence. No wonder I’m famous for partying! The ultimate party, if it’s any good, you can’t remember it. You get these brief vignettes of what you did. “Oh, you don’t remember shooting the gun? Pull up the carpet, look at those holes, man.” I feel a bit of shame and embarrassment. “You can’t remember that? When you got your dick out, swinging from the chandelier, anybody up for grabs, wrap it in a five-pound note?” Nope, don’t remember a thing about it.
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Oh man, that party was outta control!