the murder of their "Saturday Night Live" colleague, Phil Hartman.
Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada, who witnessed theault, said,
"Jon picked Andy up by the head and smashed him into the bar four or
five times, and blood started pouring out of his nose." Lovitz told
Page Six, "All the comedians are glad I did it because this guy is a
[bleep]hole."
Lovitz and Dick have been at loggerheads since a 1997 Christmas party
at Hartman's house, five months before his troubled wife Brynn flipped
out, fatally shooting Hartman, then killing herself. "Andy was doing
cocaine, and he gave Brynn some after she had been sober for 10 years.
Phil was furious about it - and then five months later he's dead,"
said Lovitz, adding that when he filled in on Hartman's "Newsradio"
sitcom, "I told Andy, 'I wouldn't be here now if you hadn't given
Brynn that cocaine.' "
Last year, Lovitz related, a drunken Dick strolled up to his table at
Ago in West Hollywood, rudely downed his guests' peach liqueur drinks,
and "looked at me and said, 'I put the "Phil Hartman hex" on you -
you're the next one to die.' I said, 'What did you say?' and he
repeated it. I wanted to punch his face in, but I don't hit women."
When the two ran into each other at the Laugh Factory last Wednesday,
"I wanted him to say he was sorry for the 'Phil Hartman hex,' " Lovitz
told us. "First he says, 'I don't remember saying that.' Then he leans
in and says, 'You know why I said it? Because you said I killed Phil
Hartman.' Which I never said. Then he asked me to be in his new movie.
"I grabbed him by the shirt and leaned him over and said, 'I don't
want to be in your movie! I don't want to be in your life!' I pushed
him against the rail. Then I pushed him again really hard. A security
guard broke it up. I'm not proud of it . . . but he's a disgusting
human being." Dick's rep said he had no comment.
Dick's weirdness has been well documented. Last year, he licked the
faces of Farrah Fawcett, Carrie Fisher and Patton Oswalt, then groped
and bit the hand of Post reporter Mandy Stadtmiller at a comedy-
festival taping.>
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07172007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm
I say we all owe Jon Lovitz a debt of gratitude. Nice work!
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