Crash

As of the 2009 release of The Proposal, Mark Kermode said she's made only three "good" films in her career-"Speed", While You Were Sleeping, and Crash, and says "she's funny, she's gorgeous, it's impossible not to love her and yet she makes rotten film after rotten film after rotten film."

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BBC Wales head of programmes Clare Hudson said she was "...delighted with how well Crash has been received by the audience."

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The 56-year-old Haggis, who won an Oscar in 2005 for co-writing "Crash," said he was quitting the church after 35 years. "I could not, in good conscience, be a member of an organization where gay-bashing was tolerated,"

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"I reached a point several weeks ago where I no longer knew what to think. You had allowed our name to be allied with the worst elements of the Christian Right," writes Haggis, 56, who won two Oscars for directing and writing the movie Crash.

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According to the Associated Press, "Crash" director Paul Haggis "said he was disappointed by the church's tacit denial of gay rights and its backing of California's gay marriage ban.... Ziggy Kozlowski, a publicist for Haggis, confirmed that the director wrote the letter. Kozlowski said the letter was intended to remain private."

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He added Hopper is "grateful for the well wishes and looks forward to getting back to work on 'Crash'."

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