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Abel Azcona realizarĂĄ la performance ‘LapidaciĂłn’ mañana a las 12.00 en la plaza del Castillo, Koran eater Abel Azcona receives threats. Havde han guffet Biblen i sig, var der naturligvis ikke sket noget. Kunstnere skal tĂŠnke grundigt over, hvad de putter i munden. Det er de fleste ogsĂ„ rigtig gode til.

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It is the episode of Fawlty Towers best remembered for the line ‘Don’t mention the war’ and John Cleese’s silly walk when impersonating Hitler. The references have proved controversial before, but when The Germans was repeated on BBC2 on Sunday evening it wasn’t our European neighbours that the corporation was worried about offending. Instead, the episode was edited to omit racist language – only for some viewers to then complain that the BBC was ‘airbrushing history’.

In one scene one of the hotel’s permanent residents, Major Gowen, uses derogatory terms to describe black people. It was included in the episode’s first airing in October 1975, but this time around the major’s words were edited out.The scene involves Basil Fawlty and the major, played by actor Ballard Berkeley, exchanging their normal pleasantries before the conversation moves on to Basil’s wife Sybil and women in general.

The major tells Fawlty about the time he took a woman to see India play cricket at the Oval. He then says: ‘The strange thing was, throughout the morning she kept referring to the Indians as niggers. “No, no, no,” I said, “the niggers are the West Indians. These people are wogs”.’ Don’t mention the ***: Censorship row as BBC cuts the Major’s ‘racist’ lines from classic Fawlty Towers episode

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Anonymous
Anonymous
11 years ago

Jeg ved ikke om det er sandt, men jeg har hĂžrt, at man i Spanien har gjort Manuel til italiener!

Bjovulf
Bjovulf
11 years ago

Da denne FT-episode i sin tid blev vist pÄ tysk TV, var den hysterisk morsomme scene
med Basils strĂŠkmarch, hans heilen og Hitler-parodi samt “Don’t mention the war!”-replikken
“tilfĂŠldigvis” klippet ud 😉

Zose Germans hafe abzolutely no zenze of humor …

Bjovulf
Bjovulf
11 years ago

Da denne FT-episode i sin tid blev vist pÄ tysk TV, var den hysterisk morsomme scene
med Basils strĂŠkmarch, hans heilen og Hitler-parodi samt “Don’t mention the war!”-replikken
“tilfĂŠldigvis” klippet ud 😉

moli
moli
11 years ago

Flot video, flot performance…

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