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More Dice-y Protests: A huge building mural promoting a new film starring raunchy comedian Andrew Dice Clay was splattered with paint Sunday by a protest group that also unfurled a banner at the same site criticizing 20th Century Fox studio chief Barry Diller for backing the film. The mural promoting “The Adventures of Ford Fairlane” adorned the side of a multistory building at 3625 Grand Ave. alongside the Harbor Freeway. A spokesman for a group called Activists Against Sexist Pigs called United Press International and claimed responsibility for the defacement and banner. The incident was the third attack in recent weeks on advertisements for Clay, who is reviled by some for his jokes about women, homosexuals, immigrants and others.

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