So I watched "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" this past weekend on DVD and one of the extras available was the standard "making of" documentary. Director Stephan Elliot goes on to tell a story so incredible that I am almost at a loss for words.On the same week of the terrorist attacks of 9-11, the film "Die Hard" had been scheduled to play on television in 56 countries. In a strange coincidence, every television station that had scheduled this particular film about a group of terrorists who take over a Los Angeles office tower (and a pretty good movie in it's own right), cancelled the broadcast and replaced it with a movie about three drag queens in the Australian outback.
It's pretty amazing when you stop for a moment and think about what a statement that was (and a completely unintentional one, to boot).
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