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CNN: The U.N. opens its doors to Hollywood
CNN ^
| 3-13-2004
Posted on 03/13/2004 8:44:34 AM PST by Trailer Trash
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:04:01 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Director Sydney Pollack had been all over New York City, but never inside the United Nations until he scouted locations for "The Interpreter."
Over the next 14 weeks, Pollack will spend nights, weekends and holidays here filming his thriller about a U.N. interpreter (played by Nicole Kidman) who overhears a conversation that could cost her her life. Sean Penn is the co-star.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hollywood; iraq; kofiannan; penn; sydneypollack; un; unhq
The story starts out with UNITED NATIONS (AP)
Kind of funny.. I thought the UN was located in New York.. I guess that they have a different AP pool there.
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To: Trailer Trash
Secretary-General Kofi Annan decided to allow the filming because the United Nations was intrinsic to the story, Tharoor said, and the script "in many ways was faithful to the values this organization stands for."Graft and corruption?
Hey, Annan, ready for that Oil For Food audit?
The Iraqis ought to sue the UN's happy a$$ to get their billions back.
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posted on
03/13/2004 8:47:26 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: Trailer Trash
Using my psychic powers.... the villain will be... either the US gov't or industrialists. I see... I see... hmm. My powers must be off. I keep seeing scenes from "Gigli" for some reason.
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posted on
03/13/2004 9:15:28 AM PST
by
Bogey78O
(The Democrats promised jobs but all they gave you was gay marriage- AppyPappy)
To: Trailer Trash
The UN must go.
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posted on
03/13/2004 9:16:16 AM PST
by
Trillian
To: Trailer Trash
Actually it needs to open its books to auditors!
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posted on
03/13/2004 9:52:02 AM PST
by
fish hawk
(I have two arms: Colt and Smith and Wesson)
To: Bogey78O
The Evil United States...The Good United Nations, a beacon in the darkness that is America....Yes....
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posted on
03/13/2004 9:53:44 AM PST
by
Dallas59
To: Trailer Trash
I was also embarrassed that I hadn't ever been in, and that's also true of both Sean and Nicole." That's ok Syd, most in the know are embarrassed it's even setting on Americam soil. Of course you and your friends wouldn't understand
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posted on
03/13/2004 10:11:06 AM PST
by
chachacha
To: Trailer Trash
Pollack, who won producing and directing Oscars for "Out of Africa" in 1985, said most Americans "don't know what the U.N. looks like and don't understand how the U.N. works, and don't know what its day-to-day business is Because if they did know, they'd toss the UN right into the river.
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posted on
03/13/2004 11:32:07 AM PST
by
lowbridge
(I can think of a punishment worse than death for Saddam, but Hillary is already married.)
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