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French film legend Brigitte Bardot sent a letter to President Bush on Wednesday urging him to prevent the execution of a prisoner on death row in Texas. Bardot said she had been deeply touched by a letter from the prisoner, Farley C. Matchett, who was convicted for a 1991 killing committed during a three-day crime spree. His execution has not yet been scheduled. "This man's story truly touched me," Bardot wrote, urging Bush to use his powers to order a new trial for Matchett. The "And God Created Woman" star, who has concentrated on animal rights campaigns in recent years,...

FRENCH movie-star-turned-animal-rights-activist Brigitte Bardot has lashed President Jacques Chirac for putting on a children's Christmas show at his official Paris residence in which live bears, wolves and parrots were put on display. Bardot told Mr Chirac in a letter made public that she learned of the December 14 show with "horror" and "deep disappointment". "My trust in you is broken and I am plunging into despair for all these animals that suffered," she wrote. Bardot, 71, runs the Bardot Foundation, a body that lobbies for animal rights in the world. More than 600 children were invited to the Christmas show...

Bardoe was the first to bring up the subject of a loose immigration policy in France and it's danger to French culture. She was labeled racist but I'm sure the French are re-thinking their position. What do you think?

Brigitte Bardot, the 1950s and 1960s film star turned animal rights campaigner, has called on the French government to halt the reported use by fishermen on the island of Reunion of live puppies and kittens as shark bait. "It is imperative that the government does something to end this practice," she said in a letter to the minister for French overseas territories, Francois Baroin, a copy of which was given to AFP Thursday. According to Clicanoo, a newspaper in Reunion, a French island located in the Indian Ocean, a six-month-old puppy was found last month with hooks implanted in its...

French film legend Brigitte Bardot has been fined 5,000 euros (£3,301) for inciting racial hatred in a book. The charges against Bardot, 69, related to her best-seller, A Cry In The Silence, in which she said she "opposed the Islamisation of France". Last month the former actress apologised in court, and said: "I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody." In her book she wrote about issues such as racial mixing, immigration, the role of women in politics and Islam. The book also contained a section attacking what she called the mixing of genes and praised previous generations who, she said,...

PARIS (Reuters) - French actress-turned-animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot (news) was convicted Thursday of inciting racial hatred and ordered to pay $6,000 -- the fourth such fine for the former sex symbol since 1997. The Paris court sentenced Bardot, 69, for remarks in her book "A Scream in the Silence," an outspoken attack on gays, immigrants and the jobless that shocked France last year. In the book, she laments the "Islamization of France" and the "underground and dangerous infiltration of Islam." "Mme. Bardot presents Muslims as barbaric and cruel invaders, responsible for terrorist acts and eager to dominate the French...

PARIS (AFP) - Former French actress Brigitte Bardot was fined 5,000 euros (6,000 dollars) by a Paris court for writing a book in which she declared disgust with her country's tolerance of Islam. The judgement added to a number of previous decisions which have found the 69-year-old of provoking racial hatred in her expression of right-wing, xenophobic views. Bardot's publisher, Rocher, was also fined 5,000 euros for last year bringing out the book, "Un Cri Dans le Silence" (A Cry in the Silence). Bardot, who lives in the French Riviera town of Saint-Tropez, was not present for the verdict. Two...

French film legend Brigitte Bardot is defending herself in Paris against criminal charges of inciting racial hatred. In the best-selling book "Islamicization of France," Bardot allegedly speaks out against people of mixed race and the "infiltration" of France by Islamic extremists. The 69-year-old film star told a Paris court Thursday she never meant to hurt anybody -- and apologized if she did. Bardot could face one year in prison -- though a fine is expected if she's convicted.

Twice convicted of inciting racial hatred after she criticized the ritual sacrifice of sheep by Muslims during their Eid el-Kebir holy day, Brigitte Bardot (above) is making news again this year for much the same reason. Two French human rights groups took swift legal action against the provocative French screen siren, charging that her latest book Crî dans le silence is full of racist attacks against Muslims—though, of course, Muslims are of all races. The evidence of her latest offense: Bardot denounces the "Islamicization" of France and blames the degeneration of French society on her country’s liberal immigration laws. "For...

Anti-gay, anti-Islam Bardot to be sued David Hearst and Paul Webster in Paris Thursday May 15, 2003 The Guardian It takes a lot for the French to lose patience with their ageing stars, and Brigitte Bardot, an unabashed fan of the National Front leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, was given a lot of rope. Yesterday the free ride for her tirades against the decadence of modern society ended after two anti-racist and human rights movements announced they would take the 68-year-old to court. Her latest outburst, a book called Un Cri Dans Le Silence, attacks Islam, gays, the unemployed, teachers and...

<p>May 15, 2003 -- BRIGITTE Bardot insults gay men in her new book, "A Cry of Silence," saying they "jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through." Msnbc.com's Jeannette Walls also reports that Bardot waxes nostalgic for the days when the whores in France were French and female. "Our lovely, kind street-walkers have been replaced by girls from the East, Nigerians, travelers, transsexuals, drag queens, bearers of AIDS and other friendly gifts," Bardot writes.</p>

It takes a lot for the French to lose patience with their ageing stars, and Brigitte Bardot, now an unabashed fan of the National Front leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, was given a lot of rope. Yesterday the free ride for her tirades against the decadence of modern society ended after two anti-racist and human rights movements announced they would take the 68-year-old to court. Her latest outburst, a book called Un Cri Dans Le Silence, attacks Islam, gays, the unemployed, teachers and illegal immigrants, and calls for a return of the guillotine. She says that gays are fairground freaks, teachers...

PARIS (AFP) - Animal rights activist and former sex symbol Brigitte Bardot (news) has unleashed a torrent of venom against modern France, blaming modern art, gay culture, fast food, trash TV, politicians -- but above all Muslim immigrants -- for the country's descent into decadence. In a new book entitled "A cry in the silence," the 68 year-old ex-actress confirms her reputation as a misanthropist of heroic proportions, interspersing vivid diatribes against most of humanity with elegiac passages about France as it used to be. "I do not hold religious Muslims in high esteem," she concedes in her introduction, and...