Aye all those fans that are coming to watch the Ryder cup are only coming because Fat Alec went over for a ****ing jolly.
No. That was the rumour at the time and his career was ruined because of it. In fact, he was entirely innocent.
To be fair trev, if he'd promised not to be in Scotland when all the visiotrs are due to arrive then it may have been worth skadillions of pounds
I saw a Paul Merton show about it - he was eventually cleared but his films were banned for a year or something. One thing that sticks out in memory is that, at the time of the woman dying, Arbuckle had second degree burns on both buttocks
You should get hold of a copy of "I, Fatty" a sort of fictional/biopic of Fatty Arbuckle. He'd been beaten repeatedly by his dad because his mum never recovered from having him and died while he was young. He was a massive baby and his ma was only small and his dad blamed Fatty for ruining her (short hand for splitting her cnut). This led to him over eating and having a really low sense of personal esteem and trouble having normal relationships with women in later life. The bird he was meant to have raped died from what may have been the after effects of a botched abortion from being knocked up well before he was alleged to have poked her and the newspapers reckoned he'd shoved a bottle up her moo which smashed inside as well as bursting her inernal organs because of his weight. It turned out the bird was a proper hooer and that Arbuckle hadn't schtupped her at all. Not often I'd recommend a book but "I, Fatty" was excellent, one of the most well written books I've read.
