Protesters Deface Dice Clay Movie Mural
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 criticizing the studio chief behind the film.
The mural promoting “The Adventures of Ford Fairlane” adorns the side of a multistory storage building in the 3000 block of Grand Avenue along the Harbor Freeway.
Two callers who claimed to belong to a group calling itself Activists Against Sexist Pigs said it was attacked about 7 a.m.
The mural was splattered with paint, and a red banner about 15 feet long was hung from the top of the building.
The callers said the banner was intended to criticize Barry Diller, head of 20th Century-Fox studios, which produced Dice Clay’s film.
The incident was the third attack in recent weeks on advertisements for the film featuring Dice Clay, a Brooklyn comic reviled by some for his jokes about women, homosexuals, immigrants and others.
The callers said the assault on the mural was carried out by a “diverse group of people, men and women, gay and straight.”
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