July 24, 2004
ILLUMINATING (via The Wife):
Hilarious note in Entertainment Weekly: Liev Schreiber is filming a book called Everything is Illuminated and went out of his way to hire an aspiring Iraqi filmmaker who he'd seen on MTV's True Life:
"We felt really guilty about what our country had done to his country," says producer Peter Saraf. "And then, of course, he gets here, and it never occurred to me that he would say something like 'But I love George Bush--he changed my life!'"
Posted by Orrin Judd at July 24, 2004 05:40 PM
LOL -- Literally
Posted by: Uncle Bill at July 25, 2004 08:12 AM"We felt really guilty about what our country had done to his country," says producer Peter Saraf. "And then, of course, he gets here, and it never occurred to me that he would say something like 'But I love George Bush--he changed my life!'"
Bwahahahaha!!!
Posted by: genecis at July 25, 2004 09:43 AMHave they sent the guy back to Iraq yet?
Posted by: Eric at July 25, 2004 10:37 AMWhy can't those damn Iraqis say what you want 'em to.
Posted by: Barry Meislin at July 25, 2004 11:26 AMSo... I assume he's been fired! :-) Boy, those Hollywood types sure are smarter than us ordinary folks. "It never occured to me..." Never. Sheesh.
Posted by: Kathy Shaidle at July 28, 2004 08:35 AMWhy can't those Iraqis just enable my life script? That sends me into a shame spiral.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at July 28, 2004 08:57 AMYou mean Michael Moore's portrayal of Iraqis isn't really true? Gasp!
Posted by: HH at July 28, 2004 10:14 AMThe funniest part is "it never occurred to me"....
Duh...it never occurred to you that that Iraqis might like being rid of a genocidal maniac who raped, tortured and murdered millions?
How stupid is he really?
Posted by: Becky at July 28, 2004 10:15 AMFrom the plot outline of Everything Is Illuminated: Elijah Wood stars in the adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel about a young Jewish American who endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during WWII in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
Saraf, being a producer, "went out of his way to hire an aspiring Iraqi filmmaker," this Iraqi who had been living under a tyrant more Hitler-like than anyone alive, the Ba'ath more like the Nazis than any other party. So the producer made a supremely wise choice, in spite of profound foolishness in not understanding this abundantly clear parallel.
Posted by: Bleeding heart conservative at July 28, 2004 10:36 AMHmmm.
The real shame of that phrase is that we've become so immersed in our own internal poltical maneuvers and rhetorical positioning that we've all nearly forgotten about the Iraqi and Afghan people as people.
It must be pure *hell* over in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not knowing who will win the Nov election. Now knowing if there's a knife waiting to stab them in the back if it becomes politically expedient. And, worse yet, not having any other recourse or means of influencing that decision.
Damocles Sword has nothing on them.
a sad state of affairs.
So true, Ed. So true.
Posted by: Reid at July 28, 2004 12:07 PMThe Republicans need to have at least one (or some) Iraqis speak at the convention about how things are definitely better there. How about this guy, who can also regale us about Hollywood cluelesness?
Posted by: DeBaron at July 28, 2004 09:27 PMEvery once in a while Hollywood stumbles into the truth, and is shocked by it. How Ironic!!!!!!!
Posted by: Lloyd at August 2, 2004 01:43 AMEvery once in a while Hollywood stumbles into the truth, and is shocked by it. How Ironic!!!!!!!
Posted by: Lloyd at August 2, 2004 01:44 AMDeBaron,
That's a brilliant idea! I certainly hope the GOP leadership thinks like you.
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