Sydney, Australia - (Ass Mess): Australia's famous Dingo Baby Mother, Lindy Chamberlain, has added her 50c worth to the McCann family controversy as they fight to clear their names in a Portuguese press-fueled furor about the disappearance of their four year old daughter Maddie.
Chamberlain - who was convicted and eventually exonerated of killing her two-month-old daughter Azaria despite telling police a wild dog had stolen her at an Ayers Rock campsite in 1980 - has gone on Australian TV and offered the McCanns some personal advice.
"Ya can never be sure about these damned dingos these days," Chamberlain said on the G'Day Australia tv show.
"Sure I ain't exactly sayin' the McCanns should blame some wild local dog.
"But stranger things have happened and they shouldn't rule it out!"
Chamberlain's 1980 life sentence conviction was quashed on humanitarian grounds in 1988 after a jacket belonging to little Azaria was found mear a dingo's lair at Ayers Rock.
The Dingo Baby Mother as she became known also reminded tv viewers that the case inspired the 1988 Meryil Streep/Sam Neil film, A Cry in the Dark, as well as an operatic work that was performed at Sydney Opera House in October 2002.
But back in the UK today the idea was treated as a damp squib after a new American movie - Gone Baby Gone - showcasing the directorial debut of actor Ben Affleck, was pulled from its December 28 London debut 'because of similarities to the Madeleine McCann case.'
UK movie press sources said today that the child actress who stars in the movie, Madeline O'Brien, bears an uncanny resemblance to the missing four year old Madeleine McCann.
The movie has also been pulled from the October 26 London Film Festival which Affleck was to have used as a major promo for his budding director career.
Lindsay Chamberlain is 59.
