It found Clarkson's slurred speech while referencing Joseph Merrick, played by John Hurt in The Elephant Man, was "on the margins of acceptability".

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The actor, 69, who has starred in films including Alien, The Elephant Man and Midnight Express, said it was "the highest honour possible".

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He said it was so bad it left him "looking like the elephant man".

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As a child, Riggs stayed up late one night to watch David Lynch's drama The Elephant Man on TV.

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She later described him as looking like the Elephant Man.

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Female filmmakers are represented by the likes of legendary editor Anne Coates, who worked on movies like Lawrence of Arabia and The Elephant Man and Lena Dunham, one of Hollywood's hottest talents thanks to her TV show Girls.

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The man who has ridden the lead elephant through the entire parade is Bello the Clown.

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And a wise man asked these blind men to tell him what the elephant looked like.

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In the movie, Murray plays a man trying to unload an elephant left to him by his estranged late father, a circus clown, left it to him.

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