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TIL that Vincent Gallo and Roger Ebert feuded over Ebert's criticism of Gallo's film "The Brown Bunny." Gallo said he hexed Ebert's colon to give him cancer, to which Ebert replied watching his own colonoscopy was more fun than watching Gallo's film.

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