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American Bill Hicks Story BANNED in USA!

POSTED BY: PIRATENEWS
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 00:14
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Sunday, April 24, 2011 3:13 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!



This title will be released on June 7, 2011. Pre-order now!
www.amazon.com/American-Hicks-Story-Kevin-Booth/dp/B004UA8D2I/ref=sr_1
_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1303649782&sr=1-1


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Amazon.com Reviews

Writing from Austin, Texas (Bill Hick's home base), I must say I am saddened and outraged that this release has not been made available here in the land of the free and the home of the brave. It is no surprise that this is a UK import - they appreciated him more over there then they ever did here. Jolly good! I doubt this will ever get a stateside NTSC release. If you have a way to play PAL DVDs, then this is manna from heaven for any Bill Hicks fan. Kudos to the film makers for this awesome tribute to Mr. William Melvin Hicks! The graphics are unique and the film is a true testament to the impact Bill Hicks has had and continues to have as his words ring truer everyday.

Are you a Blu-Ray buff? Good. This is NOT region-locked. It WILL play in America, but there's an almost Faustian hitch: You have to watch it on the Blu-Ray drive on a Sony Vaio computer. Playstation 3, the way many Americans view Blu-Ray movies, will only take you directly to the main menu. That is all you will ever see. We tested this on multiple consoles, but none were the Slim version. So, it works, but just barely. I contacted Sony, the very company that invented this technology, and they were perplexed. This is supposed to be released in America sooner or later, but the release date hasn't been announced. So, if you must watch this, buy this with the above advice.

I saw it tonight on its second US release after NYC and before LA, in a small bar in Denton, Texas, surrounded by about 50 Bill Hicks fans, and if you get a chance to see it like that, do so. Next best, invite a few fans over to watch it, and rent it as Video on Demand. It is an outstanding documentary, and it deserves to win all sorts of awards. And for true fans who think they have all the CDs and videos, you'll find enough new material to satisfy you as well. Where are you now, Bill, when we need you so much? You're in this movie, and maybe you can still inspire people to stand up and be counted.





Interview with director and childhood friend of "alien" Bill Hicks, Kevin Smith (begins at 1:10:00)
http://deadlinelive.info/podpress_trac/web/5439/0/jb042111.mp3
http://deadlinelive.info/2011/04/22/deadline-live-april-21-2011/

2 Entertain have announced the UK DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of American: The Bill Hicks Story. This documentary combines live action with a new animation technique manipulating 1,000s of photographs to tell the life story of comedian Bill Hicks.

Extras include over 3 hours of extended interviews with his family and friends that offer up-close personal recollections of who Bill was and what motivated him. Also included are rare clips that follow the progress of the ‘comedian’s comedian’ as he learned and then perfected his craft in the stand up clubs of Austin, New York and LA. Featurettes on the disc follow the Hicks family as they take in the thrill of a packed tribute night in London, and tour the Dominion Theatre, the location of Revelations, with his producer Charles Brand and director Chris Bould recounting the inside story of Bill’s greatest show, and remix Bill’s music at Abbey Road Studios.

You also get short pieces which allow you to find out how the friends that Bill inspired are carrying on his creative legacy – Dwight Slade through comedy, David Johndrow with his stunning photography and Kevin Booth’s investigative filmmaking. Then follow the film’s own festival journey, as the family experience the emotional presentation of film to the public for the first time at the London Film Festival World Premiere, and then bring the film back to Bill’s spiritual home in Austin at the raucous SxSW North American debut.

The full breakdown of disc content follows…

http://homecinema.thedigitalfix.co.uk/content/id/73077/american-the-bi
ll-hicks-story-r2uk-bd-in-september.html


youtube.com/user/AmericanBillHicks (blocked by CIAtube?)




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Sunday, April 24, 2011 4:05 AM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


I'm surprised that there is something that PN and I can finally agree on. Bill Hicks was a genius, and anyone who would keep you from finding that out is an evil Purplebelly.



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Sunday, April 24, 2011 4:22 AM

PENGUIN


You can pre-order it now for a June 7 release...

http://www.amazon.com/American-Hicks-Story-Kevin-Booth/dp/B004UA8D2I/r
ef=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1303654579&sr=8-1






King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

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Sunday, April 24, 2011 6:00 AM

OPTIMUS1998


Looking through the on-screen guide Guide on my cable box the other day, this was listed, albeit on one of the channels I don't receive...
don't remember which one...

now I'm gonna have to see if i can find a pirated copy on the interwebs somewhere..



I was a Lima loser for 29 years before "glee" introduced us to the term. -ME

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Sunday, April 24, 2011 6:12 AM

OPTIMUS1998


and here they are, for anyone interested:
DivX Rip (.avi):
http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2413620/6444595/

Blu-Ray Rip (.mkv):
http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2404933/19333785/



I was a Lima loser for 29 years before "glee" introduced us to the term. -ME

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Sunday, April 24, 2011 8:15 AM

TWO

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


There is more than one movie about Bill Hicks:
http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://isohunt.com/torrents
/?ihq=bill+hicks

You might need to cut-and-paste this link to get it to work.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, April 25, 2011 6:10 AM

STORYMARK


Gotta love a PN post. Reality confuses the boy so much. Something that's BANNED.... but now taking pre-orders.

Moron.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Monday, April 25, 2011 7:35 AM

DMI

Expired, forgotten, spoiled rotten.


Bill Hicks is probably my all time favorite comedian, but I'm confused. How is it banned? Is it just not getting a state-side release yet?

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I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:14 AM

SIMONWHO


In his mind (such as it is), that equals banned. Meanwhile, it's actually about to have its US premiere in cinemas:

http://www.americanthemovie.com/?p=1073#

You can also get it on demand:

http://www.americanthemovie.com/?p=1248#

I loved Bill Hicks, just a little too late to see him live. I thoroughly recommend both the biographies about him as each reveals a different aspect of his character (for example, one tells us what product Bill Hicks would have done adverts for).

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