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'Blood Diamond' Remains Under Scrutiny Due To Yet More Unaccounted For Appendages

seth · 10/25/06 11:41AM

Blood Diamond's ProstheticLimbGate is growing only uglier and more limbless: As you may recall, the controversy started with an item in Monday's Page Six in which the producers of the African diamond trade movie were accused of having callously failed to follow through with promises of artificial arms and legs for the film's cast of young amputee extras, a claim director Ed Zwick angrily refuted to LA Weekly's Nikki Finke yesterday, calling the smear "the work of someone who clearly bears the film ill will." Whomever this shadowy "someone" is—our minds run wild imagining a Bond-villain-type named De Beers with one eye and jagged, princess-cut diamonds for teeth—he appears to be at it again, as Page Six follows up today with yet another highly unflattering report. This time, however, they claim that in addition to failing to help pre-existing amputees, the Blood Diamond production was also managing to create all new ones: