Nelson Mandela to pimp diamonds for De Beers. I guess even the good guys gotta put food on the table.

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The international diamond industry must be getting pretty nervous about “The Blood Diamond.”

Word is that Sitrick and Company, Tinseltown’s top spinmeisters, have been hired by De Beers, the world's largest supplier of rough diamonds, to deflect the negative image of their industry portrayed in the upcoming film ...

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“Diamond,” produced by Ed Zwick, will not be released until Jan 12, 2007. It’s the wrenching story of two South Africans, a mercenary (DiCaprio) and a fisherman (Hounsou) during the savage ‘90s Sierra Leone civil wars when rebels seized mines to sell “conflict” or “blood diamonds” to buy arms, murdering and mutilating (hand/arm amputation was a popular rebel sport) thousands of innocent men, women and children.Mandella

So guess who Sitrick plans to trot out to help stop the bad bling publicity?

None other than South Africa’s activist and first post-apartheid president Nelson Mandela.

“Mandela is going to say that all that stuff seen in the film is in the past, that there are no more conflict diamonds in circulation and that the diamond industry is economically good for South Africa,” a smiling inside source revealed. “And who in their right mind is going to argue with Nelson Mandela?"

http://stylescenes.latimes.com/fashion/200...lla_to_def.html

[gimygirl 0]

[Fandango 1,440]

I think it's brilliant. Well done, DeBeers.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I , like Nelson Mandela, support monoplies. Nice work Nelson.

[Elizabethnhenry 0]

Well, Junglee wasn't available. So they had to use the mini-pimp.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I remember when Nelson Mandela said that meeting the spice girls was the best day of his life, I guess ranking somewhere above the fall of apartheid and the day he got out of prison.

[Mirorgate 0]

OMG! they have Dicrapio in the film

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

OMG! they have Dicrapio in the film

As bad as Keanu "Woah" Reeves or Will "Oh Hell NO!" Smith

[almaty 19]

hmm............ i wonder what winnie's hawking these days

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

hmm............ i wonder what winnie's hawking these days

Phlegm probably.

[almaty 19]

hmm............ i wonder what winnie's hawking these days

Phlegm probably.

she was a 1st class chopf##k ####### pig...

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Phlegm? I'm not up to date on my Mandelas, so I don't get that.

[Mirorgate 0]

Phlegm? I'm not up to date on my Mandelas, so I don't get that.

probably heavy smoker

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OIC!

[almaty 19]

OIC!

she had a few citizens terminated