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27 August 2008 12:09 AM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

Amidst Muslim leaders' demand of the retitling of "Towelhead", the Warner Independent Pictures' controversial drama stays firm with its chosen title. Rejecting the idea to make some changes in the naming of the film, its director/producer/writer Alan Ball reasoned that the title is important for the movie to be true to its original concept.

Insisting that the title will be kept, Ball shared his point of view on the matter. "As a gay man, I know how it feels to be called hateful names simply because of who I am," he explained. "Therefore, I felt it was important to retain the title of Alicia Erian's novel, in which she so effectively dramatizes the pain inflicted by such language, something many people of non-minority descent never have to face."

"I believe one of the unintended consequences of forbidding such words to be spoken is imbuing those words with

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1 July 2008 10:38 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Warner Independent released a brand new movie trailer for the upcoming film “Towelhead” by director Alan Ball (Six Feet Under) and starring Summer Bishil, Aaron Eckhart, Peter Macdissi, Toni Collette and Maria Bello. Plot: A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War. Based on Alicia Erian’s novel “Towelhead”.

Brian Corder

2 articles from 2008