Brown Bunny-gate

Roger Ebert has more on his hilarious feud with Vincent Gallo, director of the universally despised film The Brown Bunny, who put a "curse" on Ebert's colon after the critic said it was the worst movie ever shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Ebert responds, "I am not too worried. I had a colonoscopy once, and they let me watch it on TV. It was more entertaining than The Brown Bunny."

Republican Party supporters will be thrilled to know Gallo considers himself a GOP man:

On Monday Gallo told the New York Post's Page Six that Screen International "made up" his quotes. He added, "I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists who support me." Such comments might seem politically incorrect, but not to Gallo, who says he is a conservative Republican, although since his film ends with a hard-core oral sex scene, he is not likely to be fielding many group bookings from the Moral Majority.

(Actually, Roger, the Moral Majority was disbanded several years ago. And frankly, these days it's the Democrats - or, more likely, the socialists - who would complain about Jews in the media. But I digress.)

Ebert also notes that the French actually found a homegrown Cannes entry which, they insist, is even worse than The Brown Bunny, and that the whole thing could be a massive publicity stunt for Gallo's film. (Think about it: what other Cannes entry have you even heard of this year?) He concludes, "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."

Posted by damian at June 6, 2003 07:08 AM