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While racism is obviously sooo last season, as with any trend there are always a few Mel-come-latelys who try vainly to keep it alive. Take Halle Berry who, on Friday's Tonight Show, showed Leno some wacky morphed photos she'd generated using Apple's Photo Booth software--which the funloving Berry often uses to "crack herself up"--including one with a giant, bulbous nose that she introduced as her "Jewish cousin." Tee hee. (Berry immediately requested that the remark be stricken from the broadcast and issued a public apology.) Or how about strange bedfellow Iggy Pop, who recently offended a handful of viewers when he used the word "Paki" in a BBC2 broadcast? (To be fair, the BBC noted that Pop was probably unaware that the once-common term had "passed out of polite usage"--and also that Pop has a "built-in content advisory warning.") Thus far both have avoided any backlash or scandal whatsoever, proving that racism, once hot, is now so totally not.
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