May 20, 2004

The Wrath of Cannes

Today's quote of the day comes from Christopher Hitchens, ripping Michael Moore and the rapturous reaction his 9/11 film got at the Cannes Film Festival:

"But speaking here in my capacity as a polished, sophisticated European as well, it seems to me the laugh here is on the polished, sophisticated Europeans. They think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities."

"Fahrenheit 9/11" has a shot at winning the Palme d'Or; let's hope the jury, led by Quentin Tarantino, knows better than to award a grandstanding doofus like Fat Fat Fatty (whose girth, incidentally, is fast approaching the Len Pasquerelli/Don Vito level). I'd also prefer not to see the refreshlingly apolitical QT get sucked into America's partisan wars.

Posted by Stephen Silver at May 20, 2004 10:23 PM
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