making the best of a bad situation, times two

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I doubt any of you will be surprised to hear that Halle Berry won a Razzie for Catwoman.  However, what was surprising to me was that she appeared at the ceremony to receive her award.  Best parts: "A raucous crowd cheered her on as she gave a stirring recreation of her Academy Award acceptance speech, including tears. [...] “I want to thank Warner Brothers for casting me in this piece of shit,” she said as she dragged her agent on stage and warned him “next time read the script first.” " (via the formidable warrenelliscom)

In other wacky news about cultural and societal expectations, a Jew goes incognito to have a recruitment dinner with white supremacists (whose Jewdar is obviously rather broken).

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Another one John Safran did "first": for his series John Safran vs God one of his stunts was to interview the leader of a white supremacist group in LA and try to join. He did admit being Jewish after a while -- he wanted to know if Jew-hating Jews could join.

He finally got the guy to admit that while Safran couldn't join, if he had kids with a gentile woman they'd be allowed in.

The whole thing was pretty damned weird, which is par for the course with Safran. Other stunts included goat sacrifice, chicken sacrifice, doorknocking for athiesm in Salt Lake City, and buying magic underpants while he was there.

Oh, and an exorcism. Which was a bit scary because usually he takes the piss, but for that one you can't really be sure if he's for real or not.