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Scarlett Johansson: 'I Feared Tom Waits Would Get My Ass Beat In A Bar'

Waits expected to announce UK tour...

Scarlett Johansson: 'I Feared Tom Waits Would Get My Ass Beat In A Bar'
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Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson says that she feared Tom Waits would hate her debut album, ‘Anywhere I Lay My Head’.

The record, which was released this week, features ten covers of Waits own songs and one originally composition.

Johansson said that when she was approached with the idea, her “ultimate goal was to not get chased down by Tom Waits and get my ass beat in a bar.”

"I've heard from people who are friends with him that he's very pleased with it” she told the New York Post.

“He's been really supportive - not from the sidelines, but from a far, far distance.”

"It was constantly in the back of my mind that if we did something Tom Waits hated, he'd come at me with a hammer."

Meanwhile, Tom Waits is expected to confirm a host of UK tour dates after details of shows in Edinburgh were published.

Tickets for the dates, at the Playhouse this July, are expected to go on sale later this month.

For more information, check out our new look Gig Guide, or call our ticket hotline on 0871 230 1098 for details.

Check out our pictures of Tom Waits and Scarlett Johansson below...
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  • There’s a pun I could but won’t use here.......hahaha

    ~ by James 5/21/2008

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  • Scarlet Johanson covering Tom Waits’ songs is like having Barney the Dinosaur read Ernest Hemingway’s ”The Old Man and the Sea” for an audio-book. I don’t think so.

    ~ by Paddy 5/22/2008

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  • Hello dear ladies and gentlemen! I would like inform you that Scarlett Johansson(actress)actually is a clone from original person, who has nothing with acting career.That clone was created illegally by using stolen biological material.Original person is very nice(not d**n sexy),most important-CHRISTIAN young lady! I’ll tell you guys,those clones(it’’s not only one)made in GERMANY-world leader manufacturer of humans clones, it is in Ludwigshafen am Rhein,North Bava

    ~ by sergal 7/18/2008

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