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Back to my op and Kevin Kline. The bottom line on a film with an actor you like is that your feelings about him will be transferred somewhat over to the character he plays.
streeb wrote:Back to my op and Kevin Kline. The bottom line on a film with an actor you like is that your feelings about him will be transferred somewhat over to the character he plays.
Yeah, but NOBODY likes Kevin Kline.
Yo streeb! Kevin Kline is my favorite actor. Seriously, I love his work.
streeb wrote:Okay Marmot - it's a good thing you came here before the perfidious influence of US Intel got to you. Now pay attention:
Naomi Klein - author, activist
Kevin Kline - Hollywood actor, mustache, not actually French (see "French Kiss", "Pink Panther"), conduit for Intel co-ordinated smear upon degenerate morality of boomer generation ("The Big Chill" - bones Mary Kay Place with consent of wife, Glenn Close), occasionally funny ("Fish Called Wanda" - humour employed to soften public mind, establish trust. Fertile ground for injection of propaganda). Portrayed moronic doppelganger to US President in "Dave" , thereby inoculating public to eventual reality of moronic fake presidents. Film directed by Ivan Reitman - surely I don't have to elaborate on Reitman's spook connections... Meatballs, Stripes, KINDERGARTEN COP!!!
Learn the difference. Don't be a victim.
The Gubernator
Once an implacable cyborg killing machine, now the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger spreads the word that anyone can become a Republican.
Photograph: Joe Cavaretta/AP
Associated Press 9/23/07
Kite Runner rape scene worries boy actor
KABUL, Afghanistan - A 12-year-old Afghan boy starring in the upcoming film "The Kite Runner" fears he and his family could be ostracized or even attacked because of a rape scene that he says he reluctantly acted in — a sequence the family wants cut.
Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada plays the role of young Hassan who is raped by a bully in a pivotal part of the best-selling novel, on which the movie is based. His family says the scene will offend Afghans.
"In Afghanistan, rape is not acceptable at all. This is against Afghan dignity. This is against Afghan culture," the boy's father, Ahmad Jaan Mahmidzada, told The Associated Press. "When we argued, they said 'We will cut this part of the film. We will take it out of the script. This part will not be in the film.'"
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"The Kite Runner," based on the 2003 novel by Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini, tells the story of two boys and how their relationship is transformed by the act of violence. The story's main character, Amir, witnesses the rape of friend Hassan but does nothing to stop it.
The film is scheduled for U.S. release in late November.
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Ahmad Khan was paid $10,000 to portray Hassan — a hefty sum in Afghanistan where teachers earn only about $70 per month. But the boy with an endearing, crooked smile said he would never have taken the role had he known Hassan is raped. The family said they found out about the scene only days before it was shot.
"They didn't give me the script. They didn't give me the story of 'The Kite Runner.' If I knew about the story, I wouldn't have participated as an actor in this film," he told the AP.
The father and son, backed by other Afghans on the set's location in China, argued with the filmmakers, and the boy refused to act out the scene.
Mahmidzada said the director told him: "'The film will be a mess without this part.'"
"But I told him 'I'm not thinking about your film. I'm thinking about myself,'" he said. "We are Afghan, and this is not acceptable to us at all."
When the filmmakers wanted his son to take off his pants for the shooting, Mahmidzada refused to let him do it. The scene was instead shot with Ahmad Khan wearing his pants.
The parents are concerned that Afghans will harass Ahmad Khan if they find out his character is raped.
"The people of Afghanistan do not understand that it's only acting or playing a role in a film. They think it has actually happened," Mahmidzada said.
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If the film is screened in Afghanistan, Ahmad Khan said his family will lose its dignity. "We won't be able to walk in our neighborhood or in Afghanistan at all," the boy said.
Mahmidzada worries the story will stir ethnic tensions because it plays on stereotypes of Afghan ethnic groups, pitting a Pashtun bully against a lower-class Hazara boy.
Pashtuns, Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, and the Hazara minorities were among several ethnic-based factions that fought bitterly during the country's post-Soviet era civil war. Thousands of Hazaras were slain as the predominantly Pashtun Taliban seized power in the mid-1990s.
Ethnic violence has generally subsided since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, but Afghans fear any trigger that could revive tensions. Many Afghans were angered by the 2006 Indian film "Kabul Express," which portrays Hazara militants as brutal and thuggish.
"There are ethnic problems in Afghanistan — between Hazara, Pashtun, Tajik and other ethnic groups," Mahmidzada said. "We don't want any problem between any ethnic group in Afghanistan. We want unity among all ethnic groups in Afghanistan."
Manizha Naderi, an Afghan-American working in Kabul, said that if the film gets a lot of publicity, the family has reason for concern.
"If people don't see it, then nobody knows, but if people see it, then ... they'll blame the family and say, 'You're giving Afghans a bad name,'" Naderi said.
Mahmidzada said the company has promised to take care of his family if anything happens to them as a result of the film.
"I'm afraid for the security of my son, and for the security of my family," he said. "I'm not only concerned about threats from my neighbors or relatives. I'm concerned about threats from all Afghan people."
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His suggestion to the film company? "They should take us out of Afghanistan."
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On the Net:
"The Kite Runner" movie: http://www.kiterunnermovie.com
Lesbian Bradys? Publisher Denies Report
Says Actress' Book Will Dish Dirt, but Shoots Down Report It Details Affair with TV Sister
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The story of the alleged lesbian affair started circulating the Internet Friday, and was picked up by at least one newspaper on Saturday.
The reported source of the story was McCormick herself in her new tell-all book, "Here's the Story," slated to come out next year.
It should no longer be a revelation to fans of the show that life behind the scenes was not as wholesome as the scripted half-hour plots.
Barry Williams, who played oldest brother Greg Brady, revealed in his 1992 autobiography, "Growing Up Brady," that he had been romantically involved with both his TV mom Florence Henderson and with McCormick.
"...and on that sobering note, let us return to Kid World where the denizens may be small and immensely stupid, but are atleast comparatively civilized."
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:
Or if Theresa Duncan were still alive.
She fingered Des Moines' Jim Cownie as a GOP-CIA mogul involved in all the dark deeds that are kept hidden including possible crimes against children.
Maybe Duncan's mysterious 'suicide' came about precisely because she pointed her thinking image-creating LA audience at the criminal culture this big expensive psy-ops campaign is meant to cloak.
In which case, this thread tells us even more about her death than we'd already figured out and Alex Constantine was even more sure of--
http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:Child rape was part of the unseen Abu Ghraib evidence we've forgotten about.
It included the screaming sodomy of a young boy.
Maybe that nightmare might actually get released.
Remember Rumsfeld twisting over the stuff too terrible to ever be released?
NOTHING is as taboo and emotion-stoking as rape of children in any culture.
But Dreamworks is marketing this crime as an Afghan one. This is exactly the kind of counter-propaganda the CIA specializes in to "minimize the damaging effect of hostile propaganda."
This also conjures up the GOP's fascist fundie base's worst fears about gays because that base doesn't differentiate sexual practices they don't publicly proclaim as sanctified.
It's almost all a crime to them.
And that recharges some of the discredited GOP's culture war weapon for 2008 so they can keep pouring our money into killing and torture.
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