Remember how Randy and Evi Quaid got arrested after squatting in the guest house on that mansion they owned over ten years ago? (They also got arrested for failing to pay a $10k hotel bill, but that was prior to this.) Then they fled to Canada and applied for asylum, saying that the “Hollywood Star Whackers” who had supposedly murdered David Carradine, Chris Penn, Heath Ledger and some other celebrities were out for them too. Well celebrity megalomania and paranoia has become performance art, and Randy did some sort of musical performance in Vancouver, Canada, featuring the song “Star Whackers.” Maybe Charlie Sheen was his inspiration. Radar Online reports that Matthew Modine was in the audience at Randy’s performance but that Randy’s wife, Evi, wasn’t there. She was probably afraid of being targeted by the “Star Whackers.”

Randy Quaid but that did not stop actor Matthew Modine from going to watch the fallen star perform Star Whackers in Vancouver, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

The Full Metal Jacket and Memphis Belle actor was in the crowd of around 500 at The Commodore Ballroom on Friday night to watch Quaid let loose – although their was no sign of Randy’s wife Evi at the popular venue.

And when all the bands came on stage to do an encore Randy mysteriously bolted from the club and was nowhere to be seen.

Vancouver based music critic Robert Collins told RadarOnline.com: “I was standing right next to Modine and he seemed to be enjoying Quaid perform but there was no sign of Evi at the gig.

“It was a bit of a strange experience to say the least because word just got out around Vancouver that Quaid would be a special guest at the venue the day before.

“He introduced himself as Randy Quaid and spoke briefly about the effect the Star Whackers had on them.

“Randy actually performed two songs, the first was Will We Be Together Then? and that was not bad he has a decent voice.

“Then he started singing Star Wackers and to tell you the truth it was pretty bad – he had a crazed look in his face and was yelling the lyrics.

“At the end he just collapsed on stage all sweaty and you could tell it was an act – the audience was not cruel and seemed to appreciate his efforts when he finished though.

“Although his band members appeared on stage to perform an encore with the other bands Quaid was nowhere to be seen and he left the venue pretty quickly apparently – Matthew Modine did not hang around for a long time either.”

RadarOnline.com was first to report that Randy and wife Evi faced criminal charges last year for running out on a hotel bill. Their odyssey has grown stranger and stranger and the couple is now in Canada seeking asylum.

“If they have the need for you to die, that will be a cinch, easy as pie,” Quaid sings.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Randy and Evi brought the Star Whackers phrase into prominence in an interview with Good Morning America last November. They claimed that the Star Whackers were plotting against them, all working together to “take the money” they’ve earned in their careers. They also blamed Star Whackers for mysterious deaths of various celebrities.

“We are refugees — I mean that’s essentially what it is — Hollywood refugees, seeking to be left alone by the criminals,” Evi said. “I genuinely feel like these people are trying to kill us.”

[From Radar]

At least Randy (and presumably Evi) are still alive. As terrible as it sounds, I honestly expected them to meet their end somehow. Usually people who are as obsessed with death and murder plots as they are don’t fare too well out in the world. Canada has apparently been good to them. Hopefully their generous healthcare system has provided the Quaids with the pharmaceutical assistance they so clearly need.

Here’s a link to a photo of Randy performing.

Also, here’s Matthew Modine in January. He’s 52! He’s still so cute and has my vote for HGF (ok, using older pics than this one):

Header is from 2008. Photo below of Randy and Evi from 2007. Credit: WENN

We’ve kind of ignored Evi and Randy Quaid since they fled to Canada after squatting in the guest house of a mansion they used to own in the 90s. They’re seeking asylum in Canada, having forfeited the $1 million bail bond they posted after their arrest. Evi’s father was born in Canada so she’s been allowed to stay, but Randy has to fight for his immigration status. These two have spouted conspiracy theories in the past about nefarious forces out to kill them and somehow siphon off what income they have coming in from residuals. They ratchet up the crazy in an epic interview with Esquire, and what initially sounds amusing soon becomes alarming once you realize they’re truly convinced that people are trying to kill them. In one passage, Evi describes the various scenarios through which these unnamed “Star Whackers” are going to murder her and Randy. It’s disturbing how thoroughly she’s thought this out, and makes me worry that they’re going to commit suicide together. Evi and Randy have seen various friends and acquaintances die unexpectedly, like Sean Penn’s brother Chris, Heath Ledger (who starred with Randy in Brokeback Mountain) and David Carradine. It’s all part of a plot by some seedy “Star Whacker” underworld, they maintain, and unless they’re allowed to stay in Canada they think they’ll fall victim to it too.

Evi Quaid on how she and Randy will be killed
They will be killed in one of three ways, she says. (She does most of the talking.) She has interrupted the killers practicing. “Staging scenarios,” she calls them. Dry runs, rehearsals, blocking for a gruesome play.

Their most likely end, the Quaids believe, will involve knives. Randy will be drugged in his sleep — “They know he has sleep apnea,” she says — and Evi will be stabbed to death. Then they will put the knife in his hand. He will wake up and be locked away forever. Or he will kill himself in his terror and grief. The Star Whackers have stolen some of his songs — he writes sad, introspective songs on more crumpled sheets of paper — and the killers will lay one out on the nightstand or the kitchen counter. “Randy’s songs read like suicide notes,” Evi says. “That’s how the cops will read them.”

Or they will be hanged together, Randy and Evi, strung up from the rafters in a garage. Another song will surface. It will be ruled a double suicide.

Or they will be found in their car, parked overlooking the steel-gray sea, and they will be found sitting, frozen, hand-in-hand, their insides brimming with a lethal dose of Demerol, administered through Evi’s stolen migraine medication. “A pharmacist told me they could put one hundred times the lethal dose in a single pill,” she says.

The Star Whackers could, at least. They are good at what they do. Heath Ledger. Chris Penn. David Carradine. Ronni Chasen gunned down only last week, five bullets in her chest. Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson, they’ll be next. Make them seem crazy, make them seem as though they were going to fall over the edge anyway, and then give them one last little push…

On who is out to get them and Radar’s law enforcement ties
A dirty cop in Santa Barbara, and his brother, working inside Hollywood. Agents, former business managers, accountants. A corrupt sheriff in Texas, drunk and toothless. Banks. Studios. Insurance cons and actuaries. Radar Online.

“Radar Online is owned by the police,” Evi says firmly. She sounds entirely convinced. “They called the Dairy Queen in Marfa, Texas, to spread rumors about us when we lived there. Everything came out of the Dairy Queen…”

On their friends who have ‘been killed’
Sas leaves. Randy and Evi share a private joke about Star Whackers: The Musical. They laugh loudly at the idea. It will star all their dead friends. Heath Ledger, tight since Brokeback Mountain. Chris Penn came to Randy’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony; there he is, you can see him in this photograph, smiling in the background. “And here’s David Carradine!” Randy bellows. “Oh,” he says sadly. Carradine had called them only the week before his demise, unaware that the killers had already followed him to Thailand. The killers made millions off the Carradine hit. Insurance, siphoned royalty checks, wagers. So many revenue streams and waterfalls. Randy’s still making money off Days of Thunder. “The Days of Thunder angle is very interesting,” Evi says before she decides it’s better not to go down that road.

On who will kill them
“Who would they have do the actual stabbing?” Evi wonders aloud in the empty, windowless room.

She runs through the possibilities: The same people who killed Robert Blake’s wife? Or maybe the people who killed Phil Hartman and his wife? The people who shot that poor woman in Phil Spector’s house? The people who gave Michael Jackson those tainted drugs?

“I feel like we’re really close,” Evi says. “We’re this close to solving our own murder. It’s the only way I’ll be able to keep Randy alive.”

[From Esquire]

I guess the most surprising thing, as Jezebel points out, is that these are two people operating under the same delusion. It’s one that’s rather chilling given the focus of most of their conversations. It’s easy to notice that Evi is vague and speculative about who could be trying to kill them, but when it comes to how they’re going to die she has all the specifics down. Evi and Randy are staying in what she describes as “a secret hotel apartment bunker thing” in Vancouver, British Columbia after being turned away from several hotels.

The drama just doesn’t stop for crazy Randy Quaid and his crazier wife, Evi. In the latest saga of their wacky misdeeds, they were busted squatting in the guest house of a home they used to own years ago in Santa Barbara. The current owner called police after alarms went off. Evi resisted arrest (i.e. fought with the cops) and they were eventually arrested, charged with felony residential burglary and are being held on $50,000 bail. The last we heard of these two was in April when they served a few hours in jail for their part in defrauding an innkeeper out of $10,000 in charges. They missed multiple court appearances for that case and Evi even brought her husband’s Golden Globe with her to court when she decided to show up. I wonder what stunt she’ll pull next.

The Quaids were busted Saturday afternoon on charges of felony burglary — after they were found to be living in a home they once owned.

A source close to the situation tells TMZ the owner of the home sent a realtor to the house after an alarm went off Saturday morning. We’re told the realtor found the gate codes had been changed, security cameras had all been moved to face up, and Randy had carved his initials in the mailbox.

When the realtor went inside, we’re told he found the place trashed — dirty dishes in the sink, footprints everywhere and clothes that didn’t belong to the owner were hanging in the closet.

The kicker — the Quaids allegedly broke a $7,000 mirror that had been over the fireplace and, according to our source, replaced it with a photo of themselves.

The Quaids were arrested and charged with felony residential burglary and entering a noncommercial building without consent, a misdemeanor. Evi was also charged with resisting arrest.

[From TMZ]

Are these two really this insane or are they gunning for some kind of reality show or movie deal? They don’t have anything else going on as it’s not like they’re getting acting work. Randy got banned for life from the stage actors’ union in 2008 for bad behavior during a play he was working on. Evi came to his aid at the time by assaulting an elderly receptionist and verbally abusing union members in an attempt to defend her husband. They seem well suited to each other in that they’re in it together. Neither of them is trying to talk the other one out of hairbrained schemes involving free vacations. They should aim a little lower next time and try to stowaway on a Princess Cruise.

Official mugshots via Santa Barbara Police Department

Crazy couple Randy and Evi Quaid were outfitted with pretty pink handcuffs and sent to jail yesterday when they finally showed up to court. (Some amusing photos are here and here.) The wacky duo had missed two scheduled court appearances earlier this month pertaining to felony charges for skipping out on a $10,000 hotel bill. Prior to yesterday, the last time the Quaids saw fit to show up to court Evi came with Randy’s Golden Globe in hand. The judge didn’t take kindly to that, or to their other multiple no-shows, and sent them to jail, where they were released after a few hours, having met their $100,000 bail. This drama isn’t over yet – Randi and Evi are scheduled for yet another court appearance today.

The eccentric couple were sent to jail Monday by Superior Court Judge Frank Ochoa for missing multiple hearings in their felony case. They had been wanted as fugitives.

“They came to court this morning hoping that Judge Ochoa would forgive them for not showing up a couple weeks ago, but the judge said they showed disrespect by prior failures to appear and by flashing Randy’s Golden Globe award in court the last time around,” Santa Barbara District Attorney Arnie Tolks said, referring to the couple bringing to a hearing Randy’s best-actor trophy for the 1988 miniseries LBJ: The Early Years. “They both apologized to the court, but the judge obviously didn’t take it lightly.”

[From People]

These two are still facing sentencing for the crime, and although they’ve since paid back the bill they may have to do more than just community service considering all the antics they’ve pulled.

The mugshots have come out from Randy and Evi’s arrest in February, 2009, and while they’re not as bad as their mugshots taken in Texas they still look as crazy as can be. There’s something eerily similar in their faces, too, like they’re related and are on the same medication that makes them delusionally happy. You know that Evi is going to pull some kind of stunt to earn more headlines before this is over. This is the most press they’ve received in years.

Randy and Evi Quaid appeared in Santa Barbara court yesterday for a preliminary hearing on charges of skipping out on a $10,000 bill at a high end inn, The San Ysirdo Ranch. The duo was in the news last September when they were arrested in Marfa, Texas, on a warrant out of Santa Barbara for missing multiple court dates for that case. Never one to go quietly, Evi showed up at court Monday with Randy’s Golden Globe in hand. (We don’t have access to those photos, but you can see them here. Randy looks like he has his shameface on while Evi is triumphant.) While in court, Evi was served three lawsuits by a process server for a private investigator who claims the Quaids owe her $17,200. The hearing was otherwise uneventful, though, and the case was continued until April 12.

Randy and Evi Quaid were back in court on Monday to appear for a preliminary hearing on their individual felony charges of defrauding an innkeeper. The case was continued to April 12.

“Basically we weren’t ready to settle,” District Attorney Arnie Tolks told RadarOnline.com. “It takes two sides to every case and at this point we weren’t ready to resolve it.”

The wacky couple arrived early at the Santa Barbara Superior Court House and we’re told things got a little dicey inside. Unlike their appearance in December, in which Randy was sporting a bushy beard, Randy arrived clean shaven in a suit, and Evi wore black slacks and a matching military style jacket.

In keeping with their usual bizarre behavior, the Quaids brought Randy’s Golden Globe award to court! Evi was photographed with it, although there was no explanation why they brought it. (Randy won it for best actor in a mini-series or motion picture made for TV in 1988 for LBJ: The Early Years).

A source tells RadarOnline.com that just prior to the hearing a process server appeared and served the couple with three separate lawsuits, prompting Evi to almost lose her cool.

“The process server walked up to them and Evi told her to get away from her,” the source told RadarOnline.com. “She was pi**ed. So the server went up to the bailiff and the bailiff walked over to them and told them they had to take the paperwork.”

The lawsuits were filed by the Quaid’s former private investigator, Becky Altringer, RadarOnline.com has confirmed. We spoke to Altringer who told us, “I’m just so happy because for so long I haven’t been able to find them.”

Altringer said she is suing the couple for $17,200, which includes damages to the mobile home she says they trashed as well as money Altringer says the Quaids never paid her.

[From Radar Online]

Before this bizarre case, the Quaids made headlines when Randy was barred for life from the stage actor’s union, Actors’ Equity Association, in early 2008 for disrupting production of a play he was performing in Seattle. He’s still doing some minor work, though, according to his IMDB bio. Evi, not so much. No wonder she’s filling her time getting in feuds with her arresting officer and cooking up schemes to earn even more publicity for her antics.

Randy Quaid has made a career playing offbeat, colorful weirdos – most notably as Clark Griswold’s hillbilly cousin Eddie in the National Lampoon’s “Vacation” movies. But in real life, Randy and his wife Evi are pretty whacko, too. The couple were arrested yesterday in Marfa, Texas for burglary, defrauding an innkeeper and conspiracy. They were released after posting bail at $20,000 each. Get this — the sheriff actually drove Quaid and his wife to an ATM to get the cash needed to post bond! The charges stem from a dispute with the innkeeper of the San Ysidro Ranch near Santa Barbara, who claims that the couple owes thousands of dollars in unpaid room fees. Funny how they had the cash to post bail, but not to pay their hotel bill! Randy and his wife didn’t go quietly when the cops picked them up , – in fact, Evi put up quite the struggle and had to be restrained, according to the police report.

Randy Quaid and his wife Evi were just arrested in Marfa, Texas, TMZ has learned.

Law enforcement sources tell us they were picked up by Presidio County Sheriff’s deputies. We’re told there was a struggle and deputies had to wrestle Evi to the ground as she screamed loudly.

Felony arrest warrants had been issued for the Quaids in Santa Barbara, CA for burglary, defrauding an innkeeper and conspiracy. They’re accused of stiffing the San Ysidro Ranch near Santa Barbara out of thousands of bucks.

UPDATE: Presidio County Sheriff’s deputies tell us Randy assaulted them both physically and verbally and resisted arrest, but they will not file charges. We’re also told the Sheriff’s office is in touch with officials in Santa Barbara County, who want Randy and Evi extradited.

UPDATE: We’re told it was Evi who verbally and physically assaulted the officer — she was eventually wrestled onto the hood of the cop car.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ they believe Randy and Evi Quaid have a pattern of staying in pricey hotels and stiffing the joints when they leave .. and that’s why authorities are trying to nail the Quaids for burglary.

Our law enforcement sources tell us the reason they believe the Quaids were scamming the San Ysidro Ranch from the get-go is because they have evidence they’ve done it before. Our sources say the Quaids stiffed the uber-ritzy Bel Air Hotel in L.A., among other places.

[From TMZ]

The couple also sent TMZ a hand-written note that proclaims their innocence – at least, I think it does. It’s kind of hard to read and doesn’t make much sense. The note does include a copy of a cashier’s check which they say proves that the bill was paid. TMZ also posted the couple’s mugshots, which are right up there with Nick Nolte and Glenn Campbell on the crazy meter. Randy is sporting a homeless-person-beard and is smiling while draping a suit jacket over his shoulder, while his wife is just staring into the camera with these huge nutso eyes. I don’t know what kind of trip these two are on, but they’ve been married 20 years so it must be working for them. Crazy loves crazy, I guess

There’s all levels of crazy when it comes to actors. There’s a little kooky, then there’s the people that get a little too into character, the method actors, and finally the Britney Spears level of actually certifiable. Randy Quaid, brother of much more famous actor Dennis Quaid, is closer to the Britney Spears end of things. He’s been acting in the Broadway-bound musical “Lone Star Love” based on Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” Quaid’s behavior on and off the set was so massively inappropriate that he’s been banned from the Actors’ Equity Association (the union which represents American stage actors) for life, and fined $81,000. The charges against Quaid were assembled by the entire 26 actor cast, so it seems there’s little debating that he actually did do these bizarre things. The question remains… why? Here’s a rundown of Quaid’s behavior.

* Quaid hit an actor on the back of the head four times during performances. When the stage manager told him to stop, he smacked the actor again.

* Another actor was warned that if he made direct eye contact with Quaid onstage, he’d be fired.

* Quaid made “sexually inappropriate” comments onstage, repeatedly referring to an actress’ musical instruments as her “gynecological instruments.”

* The couple tried to rewrite the script, to eliminate characters.

* Randy “felt free” to change blocking, lyrics and lines during performances, and repeatedly failed to show up for note sessions and rehearsals.

[From Gothamist]

The show was forced to close before it ever hit Broadway, thus depriving the entire cast and crew of their jobs. It sounds like Randy Quaid is actually mentally unstable, and I’m not trying to be funny when I say that. He’s accused the play’s actors of being part of a “pinko-commie organization” that’s trying to destroy him. What’s worse is that Quaid’s manager, who is also his wife, is equally crazy, so it seems the two are feeding off each other. As his manager, Evi Quaid went to the hearing at the Actors’ Equity Association. As soon as she got there, the following transpired:

[When] Evi appeared at the offices of the Association last Friday, [she] sat on the desk and began kicking the 76-year-old receptionist in his shins with her “extremely tall high heeled shoes,” drawing blood and leaving a scar. According to documents filed in L.A. County Superior Court, Evi screamed it was all “a Nazi plot to get Randy Quaid.” The claim is — Evi repeatedly screamed “F**k you” and “Go f**k yourself.”

Another member says Evi screamed at her, “I’m going to get you…You are a Nazi bitch.” The member says she felt “Ms. Quaid’s objective was to kill her.” Yet another member says she answered the phone, Evi began railing and the member said, “I’d like to terminate this call,” to which Evi allegedly responded, “I’d like to terminate your existence on this planet.”

[From TMZ]

Not exactly normal, rational behavior. Before the hearing, Evi emailed many of the actors in an attempt to threaten them into dropping the charges against Randy. She told them, “You have one last chance to stop this onerous campaign or else you will be drawn into a legal quagmire,” she wrote. I’m pretty sure only crazy people use the words “onerous” and “quagmire” in the same sentence. It’s in the Physician’s Desk Reference somewhere. Randy Quaid has often played crazy and semi-crazy parts in films. He was always really good in them… I think now we know why.

Here’s Randy and Evi Quaid at the Museum of the Moving Images Tribute to Will Smith in New York December 2006. Images thanks to PR Photos.