Aspiring actor, midtown bartender and Ed Sullivan Theater-crasher Jimmy Whittemore says he regrets getting tanked and bashing the glass doors of Letterman's Late Show home. "I'm ashamed. I'm still bothered," Whittemore tells the Daily News, "I just want to apologize to the theater people." After hitting the town and the bottle for a night of karaoke, he claims he had no idea what had happened until he was arrested. "I just wanted to go out and do karaoke…Next thing I remember is laying down on the floor, surrounded by cops." As if you needed another reason: karaoke is evil.
Although his tear ranked a 2.1 on the 10-point David Lee Roth Hotel Trashing Spectrum, Whittemore says, "When they said what I did in court, I almost cried. I told my lawyer I was guilty. I'm taking responsibility…The jails in the city are no joke." A lesser man would have hired Mark Geragos to argue that the declining quality of Letterman's monologues and Paul Shaffer's monotonous braying drove him into a state of insanity. Whittemore's uncle, who raised him during his troubled past and bailed him out of jail, said he "wanted to put a shoe up his ass."
For the roughly $5,000 in damage he did, Whittemore faces charges of felony burglary and criminal mischief, and his next hearing is this Friday.
