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Addendum to the interview from an e-mail I received:

Did you see the Denzel Washington interview with Katie Couric on NBC last Friday morning? Not many people are talking about it. They are wishing it would go away and are trying to sweep it under the rug.

But it's not going to happen! :-)

It basically went like this.

Meryl Streep and Denzel were on the today show "live" with Katie Couric to talk about the movie "Manchurian Candidate." At one point Katie asked Denzel, "have you seen Fahrenheit 9/11?" To which Denzel replied, "No, and I have no intentions on seeing it." Katie and Meryl were "so noticeably" taken
aback! It was so cool! :-)

Then, a discourse (or more preferably, a fight!) began between all three of them with Denzel being barraged with all kinds of anti-Bush, anti-Republican comments, but "the man stood his ground" and soon enraged the women so much
that they couldn't get a word in edgewise. Meryl Streep turned blood red and she sat with her legs crossed and her one leg shaking up and down fuming!

Then Katie uttered the words that put the final nail in her coffin, she said to Denzel "you see, that's the problem I have with 'you people'." She of course did not get to finish her sentence because Denzel pounced on her verbally by responding "YOU PEOPLE! YOU PEOPLE! Just what do you mean You
People! Do you mean 'You People' as in me as a Christian, or do you mean 'You People' as in me as a REPUBLICAN?" She then tap danced her way through the next minute of the show. But Denzel went out fighting and declaring that Fahrenheit 9/11 is nothing but propaganda and lies distorted to support a
Democratic cynical film directors views.

Whoo hoo!! I love this man! :-) There's a celebrity that deserves to wear the uniform in movies and I don't mind at all.

All I've got to say is way to go Denzel!!!

That's the embellished version. The real version, while still unusual for Hollywood, is less confrontational and less specific.

Ooops....wrong interview. There is an original thread dated 7/23/2004.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1177429/posts

and another on 7/27/2004

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179514/posts