Meltdowns aren’t just for kids anymore. Ask Mel Gibson and the latest addition to the cuckoo club, Michael Richards.
Fortunately, no racial epithets pop up in “The Pop-Up Book of Celebrity Meltdowns” (Melcher Media, $29.95), which presents some of the recent past’s most dubious celebrity bloopers in full three-dimensional mode. This isn’t kid stuff, although it is fun to watch the rich and famous behave like children. Winona Ryder’s 2001 shoplifting spree? In the bag! Michael Jackson dangling his baby from the hotel balcony in Germany? Ja doch! Paris Hilton’s night-vision tryst? Roger that!
Paper engineer – hey, that’s how he’s credited – Bruce Foster, illustrator Mick Coulas and writer Heather Havrilesky bring the action to life with fun caricatures, saucy text and tabloid-like headlines (“Divine Intervention!” for Hugh Grant’s, um, carpool with Sunset Strip pro Divine Brown).
Some celebrities, of course, never go out of style. There’s an O.J. Simpson chase scene from 1994 and toothy newlywed Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah Winfrey’s couch in a spread titled “Top Gun Nose Dives!” It’s funny because it’s true.
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