Ashcroft's name substitutes for obscenity in movie

Richard Leiby
Washington Post
Feb. 24, 2005 02:41 PM

WASHINGTON - You're an Ashcroft! No, you're the Ashcroft!

Imagine hearing that exchange in a movie - you'd think that Hollywood had come up with a crazy new insult. Well, it turns out that some airline passengers watching the Oscar-nominated film "Sideways" on foreign flights are, in fact, hearing "Ashcroft" as a substitute for a certain seven-letter epithet commonly used to denote a human orifice.

The Post's Monte Reel, based in Buenos Aires, tells us he heard the former attorney general's name substituted at least twice in "Sideways" dialogue when he watched the film earlier this week on an Aerolineas Argentinas flight to Lima, Peru. The movie was shown in English and the dubbing was done "in the actual voices of the actors," Reel reports. Star Thomas Haden Church utters the A-word.

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Oh man, I love it. I really needed this today. :7

i love it

There is a precedent: one of Robert Anton Wilson's later books starts with a rewrite of several sex scenes from one of his earlier books, and all the bad words are replaced by names of figures from the Reagan administration, or anti-porn feminists (e.g. "Check out the Dworkins on that babe!")

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I'm going to start calling my brother that! :evilgrin: