1:08PM Clem Bastow | Fresh from the “amusing things said before the glare of instant fame made such mouth-shooting-off probably inadvisable” category comes this corker from French actress Marion Cotillard, who just won the Oscar for Best Actress for La Vie En Rose.
Evidently Cotillard gave an interview last year in which she
discussed, amongst other things, her belief that the World Trade Center attacks were just a cover-up so that the US government could demolish the “money-sucker” buildings and that, you know, man didn’t really walk on the moon.
Naturally, the press is now having fits. Here are some highlights from Ms Cotillard’s interview:
“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She added that the towers, planned in the early Sixties, were an outdated “money-sucker” that would have cost more to modernise than to rebuild altogether, which is why they were destroyed.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.”
Well, we don’t know what the French are putting in their fromages at the moment, but we’re inclined to think that there are more efficient ways to demolish an outmoded city building than, you know, flying planes full of innocent human beings into them while the buildings themselves are still, you guessed it, full of innocent human beings.
Call us conservative, but that’s just how the Defamer Australia minds roll when it comes to matters of town planning!
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