Piss off the rich, they move away. Â However, you can tell whoever wrote that article has a sense of humour. Â Every shot of Gerard shows his now Brandoesque proportions. Â Not the young Brando.
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The actor was later invited to set up home in the central Russian region of Mordovia, known for its Stalin-era prison camps.
Nice.
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Mr Depardieu went on to describe Russia as "a great democracy, and not a country where the prime minister calls one of its citizens shabby".
Remember that Pussy Riot thing? Â Even tossing out all the bullshit about whether or not they deserve jail ...
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Both supporters and critics of the band (Pussy Riot) demonstrated at their sentencing hearing. Â Opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov, who was protesting in support of the band, was detained by police, while former world chess champion and a long standing opposition member Garry Kasparov, trying to attend the reading of the verdict, was arrested and beaten.
Democracy = arresting and beating people at trial verdict readings. Â But as long as they're not berated in public, it's cool. Â I guess the Prime Minister (that'd be Dmitry Medvedev) calling people "shabby" is off limits, but it looks like the President (Putin) calling people "Jew-hater" is totally fair game.
Then again, were I faced with a minus sixty percent tax rate differential and compromised politics on one hand versus legalized theft on the other, I might make the same choices and swear my allegiance to a country run by a dude who takes time out of his day to lead birds in a migratory flight.
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Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
