"They let me go with a ticket."īut "Ken Park" is sure to suffer a harsher fate than its hot-tempered helmer. "The cops were very nice and they seemed to feel like they would have done the same thing," he told us. Clark said the police who arrested him were sympathetic. I am an American!"ĭiners who witnessed the restaurant ruckus included "Ken Park" starlet Tiffany Limos, Clark's co-director, Edward Lachman, and Mel B of the Spice Girls, who was sitting at a nearby table. I'm not gonna let this idiot talk about supporting terrorism and the killing of innocent people. But at the same time, I wouldn't have been able to look myself in the mirror the next morning if I hadn't done anything.
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"He can be mad at me for punching him in the nose, but don't take it out on 'Ken Park.' "Ĭlark said he lost it when McAlpine ranted that 9/11 "was the best thing that ever happened to America" and declared that innocent Israelis blown up by Palestnian suicide bombers "deserved to die."
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"He says he's not going to distribute the film now and he's pulling it from the film festival," Clark told us from London yesterday. From Page Six: MAVERICK director Larry Clark beat up the distributor for his movie "Ken Park" after the jerk declared that America deserved to get attacked on 9/11.Ĭlark, who helmed "Kids" and "Bully," delivered a brutal beat-down to Hamish McAlpine after the screwy Scotsman started spewing anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiments during dinner at London's posh Charlotte Street Hotel Thursday night.Īn enraged Clark, 59, punched McAlpine several times in the face - breaking his nose - choked him, then overturned the dinner table on the bloodied big mouth.Ĭlark was arrested by London police - and now McAlpine is pulling "Ken Park" from the London Film Festival, where it was supposed to unspool tonight.