WTF

Mel pretended a stalker was creeping around the Paramount Pictures lot and printed up an official memo at the lot’s security office. He had the memos, warning of a “maniac” on set, hung around the lot. Then he went after his director, Nancy Meyers, dressed “as the maniac,” he recalled. “She started screaming and stabbing me with her pencil. She then chased me out of the sound stage and I ran atop the makeup trailer and stood there laughing like a hyena. … It was a cruel prank, but I certainly enjoyed it.”

But Mel’s creepiest prank was on Rene Russo on the 1996 set of “Ransom.” Russo had taken nude photos as a 17-year-old, which Mel acquired from the photographer and blew up. “He put bits and pieces of it — a breast, a finger, a knee — and he put them on the bulletin board every day,” Russo told a newspaper.