Thursday, December 02, 2004
Mouth Park
Matt Stone of "South Park" fame responded recently to criticism by "anti-war" actor Sean Penn regarding Stone and Trey Parker's new top-rating puppet flick Team America: World Police:
"Something you have to know about Sean is, he smokes a lot of weed. Not all weed smokers are insane, but if you do smoke a lot, who knows where your brain's at?
"I think it was a real detriment to the anti-war movement that their spokesmen were actors. In the build-up to the Iraq war, every time you turned on your TV it was like, 'This is the situation in Iraq and now for an update, let's go to Sean Penn.' Or 'To argue the other side, we have Janeane Garofalo.'
"It was insane. You'd be like, 'Get the f--- off my news show! You just want the actor's head to get blown off!"
And actors' heads apparently do get blown off in the film, while North Korea's Kim Jong-Il plays a starring role, at one point feeding Hans Blix to a shark.
It is being said in some quarters that Penn's starring role as a Hussein puppet in the lead up to the US invasion of Iraq may have inspired Stone and Parker to experiment with the new animation technique.
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BP asks British staff to stop having sex in the office
British Petroleum recently sent managers a memo after some staff were caught on CCTV cameras having sex in toilets, meeting rooms and behind cabinets.
