*Ø* Director apologizes for insult to Buddha

"BANGKOK, Sept. 9 (Xinhuanet)-- A group of Thai Buddhists on Wednesday gave the United States Embassy to Bangkok a petition demanding a ban on a Hollywood movie for its controversial poster, local press reported on Thursday.

"The movie named Hollywood Buddha has a poster showing its producer Philippe Caland sitting on the head of a Buddha statue."
Source: Xinhua

"Hollywood Buddha won Best Picture and Best Director at the Taos film festival in New Mexico."
Source: BBC News

Hollywood Director to Pull Offensive Buddha Poster
"The writer and director of U.S. movie 'Hollywood Buddha' has apologized for offending Buddhist Thais by sitting on the head of a Buddha image for a poster advertising the movie and has promised to withdraw it ...

"The poster shows Caland, who also stars in the YBG Productions film, sitting atop a Buddha's head. To Thai Buddhists, the head is the most sacred part of the body and is not to be touched, let alone sat upon."
Source: Buddhist News

The Thai Government is apparently so fed up with this sort of cultural insensitivity (rife in Asia) that it is publishing a book on etiquette for foreigners.