We are at the Cannes film festival . Heat. Celebrities.
Rosé wine. All the things in life people pretend to like. And press conferences.
What an odd thing these events are? A line of interested parties sits at a desk and tries to make something sensible out of random syllables finished off with a not always appropriate question mark? “Make you tulip is yesterday squalid?” The director looks puzzled. He remembers his media training and, as they usually do in such situations, answers a sensible question he hasn’t been asked. “Well, it was obviously a challenge to work with spider monkeys.
So ...
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You can imagine the sort of thing. “Skwit Ulgut of Frisia Today. When you visited our great capital in 1999 did you sample the pickled butter?” But, for the most part, people put forward sane professional queries.
Often, the memorable stuff comes afterwards. Someone belatedly takes offence. An answer is taken out of context.
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