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Article: Hollywood star Cox calls for comedy festival to move out of Fringe to let rest of world in Patron of new venue says change would help festival get back its 'international spirit', hears Senay Boztas
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- August 17, 2008
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HOLLYWOOD actor Brian Cox has called for Edinburgh's new comedy
festival to be moved out of the Fringe to allow space for its
"international spirit" to return.
Cox, an Emmy award-winner who has starred in films including The
Bourne Identity and X-Men 2, has returned to Scotland to be patron
of a new Fringe venue encouraging worldwide acts.
He said moving the film festival to June had been very successful
and that other parts of the August Edinburgh festivals should follow
suit.
"I think the problem at the moment with all of the festivals is
that the vision of the festival has slightly got muffled, " he said,
speaking at his The World venue in Edinburgh last week.
"I've nothing against the ...