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Billy Bob “Bud” Thornton and The Boxmasters Leave Canada

Apr 11, 2009 Author: Stamp Collector | Filed under: Billy Bob Thornton, Country, Movies, Radio, Toronto

Not long after they were booed at their Toronto concert by an angry Canadian crowd the band cancelled the remaining two concerts as a support act for Willie Nelson and Ray Price, in Montréal, Québec and London, Ontario. Official reason mentioned on the Boxmasters’ website: one of the band members had the flu.

Yeh, right. (more…)

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Billy Bob Thornton “Loves” Canada???

Apr 11, 2009 Author: Stamp Collector | Filed under: Billy Bob Thornton, Canada, Country, Movies, Radio, Toronto

A day after his non-interview on CBD radio program Q, presented by Jian Ghomeshi, in which he said that “Canadian audiences are like masked patatoes without the gravy”, he went on record to say that he “loves” Canada?

Yeh – right. A really poor attempt at damage control.

When asked about the “mashed patatoes without the gravy” he now says he was talking about the radio host, while this movie of the entire interview shows that he was talking about Canadian audiences:

“Canadian audiences seem to be very reserved. (…) Well, it’s mashed patatoes and no gravy, you know what I’m saying?”

Here is a short movie item on the Globe & Mail’s website (a Canadian newspaper).