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Film distribution titan Harvey Weinstein spoke via satellite with John Pierson‘s Master Class at UT-Austin on Monday. Asked for comment about Quentin Tarantino‘s new war movie Inglourious Basterds, which will premiere in Cannes in a couple of weeks, Weinstein quipped: “There are gonna be a lot of happy Jews out there.” Brad Pitt stars in the film as the leader of an American unit of Nazi killers. The film opens nationally on August 21.
This article appears in May 1 • 2009.
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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years. More by Marjorie Baumgarten
