After immediately taking him up on the offer, Cage learned that to feed it, he had to put a spatula between the heads to prevent them from fighting over their food and this was all way too much to handle, so the snake was re-homed to the zoo, where it only recently died at the ripe old age of 14. Or, rather, he had been dreaming of two-headed eagles and then the very next day, a guy called to sell him a two-headed snake for $80,000. At the heart of the house is a charcoal drawing of his late father, August Floyd Coppola, who looms over the fireplace, and everything else. Straight ahead: a prince! Specifically, a huge photograph of Prince roller-skating in hot pants and a Batman tank top. Look up, you have a crystal chandelier and an original Creature From the Black Lagoon poster. Look down and you have a Persian rug ripped out of a Lisa Frank coloring book. Lacquered arms holding torches sprout from eggplant purple walls, lighting the way. An imposing mahogany cuckoo clock chimes on the half-hour. “I'm still decorating, so excuse me,” he says, as we stroll through his home. Boots, $1,295, by Nick Fouquet x Lucchese. Belt (price upon request) and belt buckle, $3,750, by Kieselstein-Cord. T-shirt, $42 for pack of three, by Calvin Klein Underwear. Jacket, $375, and pants, $225, by Diesel. Nicolas Cage cover the April issue of GQ. And so it's like my uniform to relax in.” “I studied with my sifu, Jim Lau, when I was 12 years old, because I was a big Bruce Lee fan. “This is my Wing Chun kung fu suit,” he explains, waving me in and handing me a mug of coffee. Nicolas Cage greets me at his door, wearing a kung fu suit. Fifteen minutes from the Las Vegas Strip, into a tranquil gated community, up a red-brick driveway, past the palm trees that touch the Mojave Desert sky, through the veil that separates the astral plane, and here he is: the man they say gained and lost a $150 million fortune who owned castles in Europe and the most haunted house in America and the Shah of Iran's Lamborghini and two albino king cobras and a rare two-headed snake who had to return his prized dinosaur skull upon learning it was stolen from Mongolia who went on an epic quest for the actual Holy Grail and who-when his singular, fantastical life eventually comes to an end-will be laid to eternal rest in a colossal white pyramid tomb in New Orleans.
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