Kel Varnsen <KelVarnsenAutos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mar 2, 2:50 am, CliffB <fl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Mar 1, 11:40 pm, gerry <2gerry...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > '9/11 attacks Made Up, ' Says French Best Actress Oscar-winner
>>
>> > By Peter Allen, Daily Mail (UK) Staff Re****ter
>> > Last updated at 01:08am on 2nd March 2008
>> >
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.
>> > ht..
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>> > Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard has accused America of fabricating
>> > the 9/11 attacks
>>
>> > Actress Marion Cotillard sparked a political row yesterday after
>> > accusing America of fabricating the 9/11 attacks.
>>
>> > The 32-year-old French actress, who received an Oscar last month
>> > for her performance as singer Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, openly
>> > questioned the truth behind the terrorist atrocity in an interview
>> > broadcast on a French website.
>>
>> > "I think we're lied to about a number of things," Cotillard said,
>> > singling out the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center as an
>> > example of the US making up horror stories for political ends.
>>
>> > Referring to the two passenger jets being flown into the Twin
>> > Towers, Cotillard said:
>> > "We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. Are they
>> > burned? They [sic] was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which
>> > burnt for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers
>> > collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole
>> > thing collapsed."
>>
>> > She added that the towers, planned in the early Sixties, were an
>> > outdated "money-sucker" that would have cost more to modernise than
>> > to rebuild altogether, which is why they were destroyed.
>>
>> > She said: "It was a money-sucker because they were finished, it
>> > seems to me, by 1973, and to re-cable all that, to bring up-to-date
>> > all the technology and everything, it was a lot more expensive,
>> > that work, than destroying them."
>>
>> > Cotillard's stardom and increased earning power looked assured
>> > following her Oscar win.
>>
>> > But after her outburst, in which she also queried the 1969 Moon
>> > landings, a successful future in Hollywood appears to be in
>> > jeopardy.
>>
>> > She said: "Did a man really walk on the Moon? I saw plenty of
>> > do***entaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don't
>> > believe all they tell me, that's for sure."
>>
>> > Cotillard, who was born and brought up in Paris, made the comments
>> > on Paris Première - Paris Dernière, a programme broadcast a year
>> > ago.
>>
>> > At the time her remarks were largely ignored, but their appearance
>> > yesterday on the French magazine website Marianne2 comes at a time
>> > when Cotillard's profile is sky-high.
>>
>> > She is shortly due to fly to Chicago to star alongside Johnny Depp
>> > in Public Enemies, a gangster movie expected to be her first big
>> > money- spinner.
>>
>> > Cotillard's film career began in Luc Besson's 1998 film Taxi - a
>> > huge hit in France but less so around the world.
>>
>> > She is slowly becoming a household name in France, in a list most
>> > recently topped by her close friend Audrey Tautou and previously by
>> > women such as Catherine Deneuve and Brigitte Bardot.
>>
>> > 'I think we're lied to about a number of things' Cotillard said,
>> > singling out the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center as an
>> > example of the US making up horror stories for political ends
>>
>> > But Cotillard, who lives with actor and director Guillaume Canet,
>> > frequently tells interviewers she has no interest in money or
>> > prestige.
>>
>> > Denying that she had any kind of "Anglo-Saxon ambition", she said
>> > she prefers to "choose roles which suit me".
>>
>> > Despite her low-key image, Cotillard is an environmental activist
>> > who once worked as a spokesman for Greenpeace.
>>
>> > News of her anti-Americanism comes a
>>
>> She seemed sort of cute the night she won; who figured she was dumber
>> than a wheel of cheese?
>
> Figures a french **** would say something as dumb as this. Maybe she
> spoke to Magda about it.
Why should Cotillard be connected to Hagda.
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