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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 04:36 PM
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What is the problem with you English? Were you raised by Pigeon?
Award-Winning Director Learns New Meaning of "Pigeon English"
Sarajevo-born film director Emir Kusturica, who won the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985 for When Father Was Away on Business and in 1995 for Underground, has balked at demands by British censors that he cut a two-second scene in his latest film showing a cat pouncing on a dead pigeon. In an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper, Kusturica railed, "I am not cutting my film for this jerk. Was he brought up by pigeon or something? ... I just don't get it. The pigeon was already dead, we found it in the road. And no other censor has objected. What is the problem with you English? You killed millions of Indians and Africans, and yet you go nuts about the circumstances of the death of a single Serbian pigeon. I am touched you hold the lives of Serbian birds so dear, but you are crazy. I will never understand how your minds work."

http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2005-03-04/#film8
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 04:51 PM
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1. very strange
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da_chimperor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 04:53 PM
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2. LOL, I think that's pretty damn funny. I doubt he could be more blunt. n/t
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TyeDye75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 05:10 PM
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3. I was raised by pigeons
and I find that very offensive.
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