Long-suffering Jack Nicholson impersonator Christian Slater barely escaped being attacked by a knife-wiedling kook in London on Friday. We realize Hard Rain totally sucked, but Jesus Christ, you don't have to stab the guy.
The 35-year-old Slater, who is starring in the Gielgud Theatre's stage production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, was lunged at by a random man with a kitchen knife as he left the theater. Luckily, Slater's bodyguard (Christian Slater has a bodyguard? . . . the hell?) jumped in and was able to protect the Heathers star but received a cut on his arm for the trouble.
Slater and his wife of four years, Ryan Haddon, have recently announced their trial separation. They say the reason for their split is that Haddon doesn't want to live in England, and is desperate to take their two children back home to the USA. Personally, we think she's just got a case of sour grapes now that someone one-upped her on the Christian Slater assault and battery front.
