Bagenville, Ga.
For years, Bagenville’s leading mime, George “Get Me Out of This Box” Druthers, has been teasing audiences with his performance. You can always expect him to follow you around the City Hall district doing the rope, the lean, eating imaginary burgers, and of course the finale of him, trapped in a box. Whether you wanted it there or not, it has been a Bagenville fixture like the bronze tulips that adorn the courthouse lawn.
But a terrible screaming match between Druthers and his longtime lover, Marcel Moskowitz, has landed the famous mime in jail. When Druthers arrived at his apartment on Saturday night, smelling of musk oil, he was confronted by Moskowitz. Moskowitz, who has always been a staunch Druthers supporter, bristled at a recent addition to the act. For the past two weeks, Druthers has been pretending to make out with another person on a park bench.
“He’s so good. It really looks like he’s kissing someone. You can feel the passion,” says an audience member. Moskowitz felt it too when he left the show early that night. “I know it’s just an act, but he doesn’t even pretend to kiss me like that anymore!” Moscowowitz exclaimed. When police arrived at the scene at 12:30 am, Moskowitz was screaming and slamming doors throughout the apartment. Druthers threw several invisible cakes, one of which hit an officer in the face.
The melee dissolved within minutes as Druthers was placed inside a squad car. Officer Todd Riggins said: “This is a domestic situation that needed to be aired. No big deal. But why does the guy keep pretending to hit the glass? The window is open.” Druther had to spend the night in jail after only simulating a phone call to his lawyer.