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Old 06-03-03, 07:35 PM
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Vincent Gallo calls Roger Ebert a "fat pig"

this is from IMDB news:

Sharp-tongued Vincent Gallo has launched a scathing attack on "fat pig" movie critic Roger Ebert - after the reviewer claimed the indie filmmaker apologized for making his widely slammed flick The Brown Bunny. The movie caused uproar at last month's Cannes Film Festival with its graphic oral sex scene between Gallo and actress Chloe Sevigny. But fuming Gallo vehemently denies he has apologized for making the film. He says, "I never apologized for anything in my life. I like the movie. I had 100 per cent creative and financial control of it and if I didn't like it, I would have changed it. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him." Ebert wrote in American newspaper Chicago Sun-Times that Gallo had expressed regret for making Brown Bunny to a reporter from US movie magazine Screen International.
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sounds like Gallo is a member of this forum . . .
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Well of course he liked it, he put himself in an oral sex scene.
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Well, he convinced me--that always wins me over in an argument, calling people insulting, gradeschool names.
Plus, wasn't the film pretty much panned by EVERYONE, not just Ebert?
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dtcarson, you shut your mouth you bloated ape! I just put a hex on your nipples!
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Vince Gallo...the new Kinski?
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uhm....didn't he basically apologize at the press conference at the screening? He said he was sorry to the producers, etc.....what a maroon.....
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If anyone has seen the movie, how "graphic" is it.
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Gallo and Iraqi Information Minister-- seperated at birth?
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Well at least we know now that Gallo is articulate, witty and creative when it comes to insults. He'd be great at roasts: "You suck because you suck."
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Hmm... did Gallo just find out that Ebert didn't like Gladiator, Spider-Man, or Attack of the Clones?
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Ebert responded to the effect of "A curse on my colon? The last time I had a colonoscopy, they let me watch it on a small monitor. It was more enjoyable than Gallo's Brown Bunny."



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Gallo all but wept in a Cannes interview as he described the pain of “growing up ugly,” but empathy has its limits, and he had no tears for a fat pig and slave-trader such as myself. It is true that I am fat, but one day I will be thin, and he will still be the director of “The Brown Bunny.”
I love Ebert's final paragraph in his response.

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That's an awful lot of money to spend just to get a hummer from Chloe Sevigny.
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Chloe is nasty... sounds like work to me.
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Gallo all but wept in a Cannes interview as he described the pain of “growing up ugly,” but empathy has its limits, and he had no tears for a fat pig and slave-trader such as myself. It is true that I am fat, but one day I will be thin, and he will still be the director of “The Brown Bunny.”
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I'm pretty sure that's a Churchhill quote, where some lady told complained to him at a dinner party that he was drunk. His response was, "I may be drunk, but you madame, are ugly ...and in the morning I'll be sober, but you shall still be ugly!"
A worthy use of that comeback by Ebert.
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Originally posted by Trigger
Chloe is nasty... sounds like work to me.
I'd hit it.
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It's called getting free publicity for an already critically maligned film.
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Gallo is a pretentious pig. "Buffalo 66" is a piece of crap. As far as growing up "ugly", I don't find him to be be ugly....more unique looking than anthing.
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You gotta give Gallo props, though. He used "Bullet Time" before The Matrix (using only practical effects...no CGI).
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Do I remember correctly ..... did Gallo promise to never make another movie? Maybe he could also promise to never have another press conference.
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Say what you will about Ebert, but man his response to that is A++!!

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