Richard Gere’s Record Cleared in India, But the Horror Lives On

Published: March 17, 2008, 1:57 am

Guest blog by Doug Sacrison Richard Gere is free! The actor's arrest warrant has been suspended by officials in India, after a judge deemed the charges frivolous. Precisely, judge! Last year, Richard Gere offended the whole population of India by bending Bollywood starlet Shilpa Shetty over his knee and giving her a rather conspicuous kiss at a public AIDS awareness event in New Delhi. He got himself in hot water because the kiss apparently broke public obscenity laws. Okay, I guess he didn't offend the whole population of India (since apparently public opinion showed that most Indians just didn't care), but even a small fraction of the whole population in India means more than the whole population of a lot of other countries. I'd rather have the whole population of Barbados angry with me than the whole population of India. Sorry Barbados, it's sheer numbers. So it seems there are amusing differences between Hollywood and its rhyming counterpart in India. It makes you

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