Nige Tassell's blog

Fight! Fight! Fight!

Amy Winehouse's minor scuffle with the Glastonbury front row at the weekend set me thinking about great fights/skirmishes/fisticuffs there have been over the years involving the great and the good. Bjork's undignified arrival at Bangkok Airport is at the front of the queue, but what other cracking scraps can you Worders recall? (Best if there's some online footage so we can compare and contrast.)

I'll land the first punch with this extraordinary clip of Rip Torn and Norman Mailer getting down and dirty on-set in 1970. Warning for the squeamish: neither is playing by the Queensbury Rules. Teeth and a hammer are involved. And there's blood.