Christian Bale with wife, Sandra Blazic

Of course he did.  Wouldn’t you?

British media reported that Bale’s mother and sister told police he assaulted them at the Dorchester Hotel in London on Sunday night, a day before attending the European premiere of “The Dark Knight.”  Australian 7 News (definitely my news source of choice) declared that Heath Ledger’s death was to blame for the outburst.  Because blame should be placed where blame is due, dammit!  God forbit we suggest Mr. Bale take a crash course in anger management.  Poor guy is just mourning the loss of his friend; mom and sis just happened to get in the way of his mourning fist.*

*i highly doubt fists were involved.