6.03.2003
 
My god.. every time I think Roger Ebert has displayed just how badass he is, he goes ahead and tops that.



HOLLYWOOD (Zap2it.com) - Vincent Gallo's latest film, "Brown Bunny," did so poorly at the recent Cannes Film Festival, he was supposedly apologized to audiences and critics. But now, Gallo is going on the offensive, claiming he never said "I'm sorry."

The apology in question was reported by Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert who wrote that Gallo had expressed regret for making "Brown Bunny" to a reporter from British trade paper Screen International. The magazine tabulates critics' votes and "Brown Bunny" received the lowest rating in the paper's history.

Gallo says Screen International made up his quotes.

"I never apologized for anything in my life," Gallo tells the New York Post. "I like the movie. I had 100 percent creative and financial control of it and if I didn't like it, I would have changed it."

With an added dose of vitriol, Gallo went on to attack Ebert, saying, "The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him."

"Brown Bunny," which Gallo both directed and stars in, features a graphic oral sex scene between him and co-star Chloe Sevigny.

"I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me," Gallo says. "I'm sorry for a lot of things, but I'm not sorry for making this movie."



Then... Ebert begins to reply..



June 3, 2003 -- ROGER Ebert is giving a thumb way down to actor/director Vincent Gallo, who in yesterday's PAGE SIX called him a "fat pig" and claimed he'd put a curse on Ebert's colon. Gallo went ga-ga when Ebert, like many other media outlets, reported in the Chicago Sun-Times that Gallo had apologized to a British film journal for his critically savaged flick "Brown Bunny" (Gallo says the British pub fabricated his quotes). Ebert, who was a fan of Gallo's breakthrough movie, "Buffalo 66," tells us he's crafting a reply to Gallo's attack that he'll deliver this weekend on his TV show, "Ebert and Roeper." But for those who want a preview, Ebert says he's lost 30 pounds — "So if Gallo gains 30 IQ points, we'll be even." As for the colon crack, "I don't know what he meant . . . but when I had my last colonoscopy, they let me watch it on a little TV, and it was far more entertaining than 'Brown Bunny.' "



This is all really sad because Buffalo 66, Gallo's first film, is really very good and I liked Gallo a lot. But now he's turning into a raging moronic asshole. Oh well..

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