Dancing Star Accused of "Violating" Iraq Film
Mark Cuban by Craig Sjodin/ABC
Billionaire
Mark Cuban, who somewhat inexplicably has endured
Dancing with the Stars' first cuts, is simultaneously involved in some fancy
legal footwork. At a Monday panel discussion about the Iraq War film
Redacted, director
Brian De Palma accused Cuban, who financed the pic, of obscuring a montage of wounded GIs because "he was disturbed by [them].... I felt my cut was violated." The New York
Daily News says fellow panelist and film distributor Eamonn Bowles defended Cuban by blaming the edit on "an untenable legal situation," to which De Palma snapped, "It's a
specious legal issue.... [M]y picture was redacted."
Cuban did not answer the
News' calls, but Bowles chalks it all up to a "misunderstanding" about photo rights.
