Thursday, December 15
BALE-WATCH
In China on Thursday, Batman himself, Christian Bale, went through a real-life version of a scene from “The Dark Knight” where Batman miraculously escapes from authorities in Hong Kong. CNN reports that “The Dark Knight Rises” star was on his way to Dongshigu Village in eastern China with a crew from CNN to meet with Chen Guangcheng, a blind civil rights activist in the People’s Republic of China who has been there in soft detention since his release from prison in September 2010. When Bale and the CNN crew arrived, he was accosted by four plainclothes officers who chased him out of the village and onto the road.