On Jan 14, 2006, at 12:59 PM, Michael Rothenberg wrote:
Brooks adopts Indian custom to fight US flu epidemic
From World Entertainment News Network
January 14, 2006 9:17 AM EST
Movie star ALBERT BROOKS insists America would be a much healthier
place if
his countrymen adopted India's manners.
The star of THE BIRDCAGE shot most of his eye-opening new movie
LOOKING FOR
COMEDY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD while travelling through India and
Pakistan, and
he's convinced common ailments wouldn't exist in his native America if
everyone followed the subcontinent's rules.
He explains, "It is the most polite society that I've ever been to.
I don't
know if it's dealing with the British influence and the properness,
but I
think some of their customs should be practiced everywhere.
"There are no shaking of hands; they put their hands together in a
prayer
position and bend. I really am totally into that now.
"I carry this Purel hand sanitiser with me and rub my hands constantly
because I've been reading about the bird flu that's taking hold of
America.
It makes so much sense not to shake hands."
The last bit should lead very rapidly to the development of stronger,
more antibiotic-
resistant germs. Let's hear it for super-germs.
"If the brain were so simple we could understand
it, we would be so simple we couldn't."
--Lyall Watson
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