Bunny Double

Ahh, the special effects wizardry that is Hollywood ...

Anyone familiar with the reputation of renegade filmmaker Vincent Gallo (Buffalo '66) might know a little something about his craptacularly self-conscious art house specimen, 2003's The Brown Bunny. That movie, you might remember, earned notoriety chiefly for its hardcore scene in which Chloe Sevigny fellated Gallo in full-on, up-close-and-personal cinematic splendor.

Now it turns out that Gallo wine bottle actually involved an entirely different vintage. According to reports circulating on the Internet, Gallo employed a stunt penis, the owner of which is a guy named Jacob Christner, a twentysomething actor who says he has yet to be paid for his work.

Boy, oh, boy. Talk about getting the shaft. The usually verbose Gallo, for his part, is dodging direct comment on the veracity of Christner's claims. Look who's not so cocky ...