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High-res Banksy paints L.A. A graffiti attributed to secretive British artist Banksy depicting Charlie Brown figure starting a fire on the side of a burned-out building on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California on Feb.17. Another graffiti was ripped down in Hollywood, amid sightings of other pieces in a reported pre-Oscars publicity stunt in LA. Banksy is nominated for best documentary for “Exit Through the Gift Shop” at the Oscars, due to be announced on Feb.27 at the climax of Tinseltown’s annual awards season.

Banksy paints L.A.

A graffiti attributed to secretive British artist Banksy depicting Charlie Brown figure starting a fire on the side of a burned-out building on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California on Feb.17. Another graffiti was ripped down in Hollywood, amid sightings of other pieces in a reported pre-Oscars publicity stunt in LA. Banksy is nominated for best documentary for “Exit Through the Gift Shop” at the Oscars, due to be announced on Feb.27 at the climax of Tinseltown’s annual awards season.

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'The Simpsons' Explains Its Provocative Banksy Opening - NYTimes

Q. How did you find Banksy to do this [video here], and now that it’s done, how much trouble are you in?

A. Well, I haven’t been fired yet, so that’s a good sign. I saw the film Banksy directed, “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” and I thought, oh, we should see if he would do a main title for the show, a couch gag. So I asked Bonnie Pietila, our casting director, if she could locate him, because she had previously located people like Thomas Pynchon. And she did it through the producers of that film. We didn’t have any agenda. We said, “We’d like to see if you would do a couch gag.” So he sent back boards for pretty much what you saw.

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