Tony-winning actress Ellen Barkin rang in the new year in her typical brash style — uncorking a profanity-laced Twitter tirade against the NYPD and Mayor Bloomberg after watching the predawn arrests of suspected Occupy Wall Street scofflaws near her West Village townhouse.
“Just threatened on my street by NYPD, cop shoved me, both hands, onto sidewalk.â€
A video shot by her hunky boyfriend — 20-something actor-screenwriter Sam Levinson, son of director Barry Levinson — tells a different story.
In the video, the young uniformed officer calmly says, “Miss, sidewalk,†as he uses both hands to guide her gently backward out of the street and onto the curb.
“Get your motherf–king hands off me,†Barkin tells him.
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Without a script writer this actress is not exactly eloquent.
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