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Topic: Canada denies Randy
Quaid´s request to stay |
Canada denies Randy
Quaid´s request to stay
Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By:StormCnter, 1/27/2013 5:36:12 AM
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| TORONTO — Canadian immigration officials have denied U.S. actor Randy Quaid´s request for permanent resident status in Canada. A Canadian government official confirmed late Saturday his request for permanent status has been denied. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Quaid can appeal the decision to the federal court. U.S. officials last year refused to seek extradition of the actor and his wife from Canada to face felony vandalism charges in Santa Barbara, California, but authorities in the coastal town
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Comments:
No, Canada doesn´t want you, Mr. Quaid. He was memorable as Lyndon Johnson, though, mainly because he looked so much like Johnson.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Mike PHX, 1/27/2013 6:11:08 AM (No. 9141756)
Regrettably, he´s also not welcome on Oriental Avenue, either. Nor on St. James Place. As soon as he was kicked off the B & O, his fate was sealed.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
provide, 1/27/2013 6:28:07 AM (No. 9141766)
If France will take Roman Polanski, they´ll take him.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
kanphil, 1/27/2013 6:43:06 AM (No. 9141779)
What a jerk.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
coldoc, 1/27/2013 8:11:19 AM (No. 9141874)
In exchange, they should take back justin bieber.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JimS, 1/27/2013 8:12:49 AM (No. 9141875)
Guess you have to be a draft dodger or an islamic extremist to get residency status in Canada.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
veritas, 1/27/2013 9:40:42 AM (No. 9142033)
FTA: The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
General observation: haven´t any of these anonymous sources figured out that "not authorized to speak publicly" means shut up? The "sources" that are real people, not those made up by media types in need of worn out fig leaves to let the newsies opine "indirectly."
Specific comments:
#2: France named a street for "Mumia" the cop-killer, and had people pushing for his release, too. And they shot at D-Day troops coming ashore to liberate their country. [I´m talking myself into campaigning for "Freedom Fries." Yipes.]
#4: Good point. Maybe they should take JB back, and keep Quaid as a reminder not to send us another JB.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
vesicant, 1/27/2013 9:42:20 AM (No. 9142037)
So his roles in the National Lampoon movies weren´t caricatures after all....
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bifgroovey, 1/27/2013 9:46:13 AM (No. 9142040)
Canada won´t take cousin Eddy ("now that there is an R.V.")?
The Giswalds always have room at their house plus Illinois will give an illegal immigrant a drivers license.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Refried, 1/27/2013 9:46:46 AM (No. 9142042)
A poster child for what drugs will do to a successful career!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 1/27/2013 10:33:03 AM (No. 9142152)
If you want to watch a really stupid, but comical movie, try ´not your typical teenage movie´ where Randy Quaid is the father of a h.s. girl.
It has all the elements of a typical teenage movie, but with heavy handed satire that works. It even has a humorous racial component.
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