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Rip Torn’s home brew

Talk about spaced out.

Hard-drinking “Men in Black” star Rip Torn was so far gone Friday that when cops picked him up off the floor of a closed Connecticut bank, he thought he had been dozing in his home, sources told The Post.

Torn, 78, was armed with a loaded gun when he broke a window and entered the Litchfield Bancorp in Salisbury and lay down, officials said.

The actor was so drunk he had no idea he was in a bank, the sources said.

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Torn is scheduled to appear in a Connecticut court today on burglary, criminal-trespass and criminal-mischief charges after spending the weekend in jail.

The TV and movie star was being held behind bars in lieu of $100,000 bail. Torn’s lawyer could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Bank President Mark Macomber told TMZ.com that no one was in the bank during the break-in and that the only damage was the smashed window in the back of the building that Torn apparently thought was his front door.

Macomber said Torn was in serious need of an intervention.

But Torn’s family has staged multiple interventions over the past couple of years with little to show for it but court dates and embarrassing headlines, sources close to the actor said.

According to one source, Torn figured he had made significant progress by cutting back from four pints of alcohol a day to a single pint.

It doesn’t help that he likes guns almost as much as he likes booze, the source said.

Torn, whose real name is Elmore Torn, has starred in scores of films and television shows over six decades. He won an Emmy for “The Larry Sanders Show” in 1992 and was nominated for an Oscar in 1983 for “Cross Creek.”

In 2004, he was arrested in Manhattan after crashing his car into a taxi while allegedly drunk. He was found not guilty on that one, despite launching into a rant at police.

Last year, Torn was given probation for a December 2008 drunken-driving arrest in which he was spotted erratically driving his battered Subaru with a Christmas tree strapped to the roof. With Post Wire Services

leonard.greene@nypost.com