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Nol GodinNol Godin (September 13, 1945 - ) is a Belgian humorist and notorious cream pie flinger or entarteur. Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his gang ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels, pelting the computer magnate with pies. Godin claims his goal has long been to entarte as many people like Gates as possible - people he feels are particularly self-important and lacking a sense of humor. Godin told the New York Times he chooses to function in the service of the capitalist status quo, without really using his intelligence or his imagination. He says his sworn enemies are "authority, depressing laws, the return of the moral order, nuclear power, any form of political power." Since 1969, when Godin planted a cream pie on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras, he has successfully creamed dozens, including choreographer Maurice Bejart, France's best-known television anchorman Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, ambitious French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, and film maker Jean-Luc Godard. A regular target is French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Lvy, perhaps an inevitable choice as a handsome, wealthy and successful media darling. Levy, married to the beautiful actress Arielle Dombasle, likes to wear white shirts unbuttoned almost to his navel and to hold forth on political issues with intense gravitas. After one attack, in 1994, an enraged Levy was filmed standing over Godin snarling "Get up, or I'll kick your head in. Godin, who uses the pseudonym Georges Le Gloupier has also inspired an unknown number of followers around the world, who now regularly provide him with details about the whereabouts of various important potential targets. It took 32 people to conduct the Bill Gates operation. His followers take care to look as ridiculous as possible as they throw their tarts, smiling broadly, spouting anti-pretentious poetry and repeating "gloup, gloup, gloup." Godin insists his group is non-violent and is careful to use only what he calls a "tarte classique," filled with whipped cream and perhaps a little chocolate in soft sponge cake. He says his humor can be traced back through Jerry Lewis, Wile E. Coyote, the Marx Brothers, and yippies like Abbie Hoffman. Godin is also a writer, critic and actor. He has appeared in many films directed by his friend Jan Bucquoy including the acclaimed La Vie Sexuelle des Belges 1950-78, Camping Cosmos Opus IV: La Jouissances Des Hystriques, and Tart or Vivant, Tarte ou Vivant.
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