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shanghaiceltic

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Posted: Mar 03, 2008 - 06:35 AM
Post subject: French actress could be blacklisted in the US

I think she must be related to FL/Babebobum and Cambrone. A sister or a love child....

Marion Cotillard's 9/11 conspiracy theory

By Peter Allen in Paris
Last Updated: 12:30am GMT 02/03/2008

Oscar-winning Marion Cotillard was facing embarrasment with her new American public last night after it emerged that she doubted the official account of the September 11 attacks.

The 32-year-old French star has swept this year’s best actress awards, also receiving a Bafta, Golden Globe and a César for her performance as singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose.

Miss Cotillard, who earned under £1 million in 2007, could expect her Oscar success to significantly increase her earning power. She is due to start filming Public Enemies with Johnny Depp.

But the actress faces a potential backlash in the US over comments she made in an interview in France. Footage which surfaced on the internet showed her questioning the New York terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the 1969 moon landing.

"I think we’re lied to about a number of things," she said, singling out September 11.

Referring to the two passenger jets flown into the World Trade Centre, Miss Cotillard said: "We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes, are they burned? There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours.

It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed."

Miss Cotillard suggested that the towers, planned in the early 1960s, were an outdated "money sucker" which would have cost so much to modernise that it was easier to destroy them.
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Turning to America’s space programme, she said: "Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don’t believe all they tell me, that’s for sure."

Miss Cotillard, who was born and brought up in Paris, made the comments on Paris Première – Paris Dernière (Paris First – Paris Last), a programme first broadcast a year ago.

They were largely ignored at the time, but appeared yesterday on a French website. Miss Cotillard’s film career began in Luc Besson’s 1998 film Taxi. She is an environmental activist, who once worked as a spokeswoman for Greenpeace.

News of Miss Cotillard’s comments comes at a time when Franco-American relations appear to be thawing, following Paris’s refusal to support the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

President Nicolas Sarkozy insists that he is pro-American, supporting so-called Anglo-Saxon economic reforms and going on holiday to America.

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Cambronne
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Posted: Mar 03, 2008 - 08:59 AM

Oh, what a crazy woman, who doesnt believe that illiterate arabs hijacked US airliners, escape the world's most advanced air force, to crash into major buildings including the Pentagon! I bet she is also an antisemite! Ban ban ban!

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p1atl10

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Posted: Mar 03, 2008 - 09:16 AM

Neil Armstong is actually a first effort from Dreamworks....everyone knows that. Buzz Lightyear was based on this early work....

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CoffeeHawk_0
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Posted: Mar 03, 2008 - 09:47 AM

why did they never show footage of burned airplane parts at the Pentagon site?
do u really think a 747 would do so little damage at the Pentagon site?
Jerry Lewis is very popular in France, can you see the connection?

hammerforlife
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Posted: Mar 03, 2008 - 09:48 AM

Cambronne wrote:

I was going to post a list of words that were sure to be included in your response to this post. "Illiterate" was at the top and "antisemitic" was also there. Of course you could also buy my signature from me if you want to save some time typing it.

Cambronne
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Posted: Mar 03, 2008 - 09:52 AM

In France professor was fired from his job and very heavily fined for saying : "I personally do not deny that gas chambers existed but this subject should be studied by historians and such research should be free". Based on these words, he was found guilty of hate speech, racial hatred and holocaust denial. I am not joking. So imagine what I could get.

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