Should Bruno Cut Its LaToya Jackson Scene?
By Richard Lawson on June 27, 2009 at 4:15 AM Bruno is involved in the whole Michael Jackson foofaraw, of course. There’s a scene in the film where the Austrian gay toys with LaToya Jackson and tries to get her brother’s phone number from her BlackBerry. Should Universal cut it? The Wrap is reporting that the studio already has nixed the scene where LaToya eats sushi off a naked Latino gardener and Bruno fiddles with her PDA. Supposedly this kind of extremely last-minute edit will cost Universal millions. Kim Masters writes about the “controversy” in a more speculative tone, wondering if the edit is even necessary. “It so transgresses the question of taste-you cut it, I think,” says a former studio president not associated with the film. “You certainly have a conversation about it. You examine it very carefully.” A veteran marketing executive disagrees. “It wasn’t like they shot it and [Michael Jackson] was 85 years old and they expected him to die,” she says. “It’s just another one on
