Posted on 02/11/2007 12:17:09 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
I'll give her credit for actually going there and doing something. Yes she hopes her celebrity status will get more attention to the situation.
I don't see her blaming Bush or the US. In fact, the article plainly says the problem is coming from Sudan (read Islam) killing and raping (probably Christians) from Central African Republic.
Guess who "Daddy" loved the best.
...which must have irritated Mia to no end.
"Farrow married singer Frank Sinatra on July 19, 1966, when she was 19 and he was 50. While she was filming Rosemary's Baby with director Roman Polanski, Sinatra served her divorce papers in front of the cast and crew."
What could your Hutton story have to do with Farrow's trip?
You're looking pretty small from here.
Don't know what Hutton and "designer tribalism" (not that I disagree with you on the PC playing around with cultures) has to do with this, but this area, unpopular with the news, has been having problems, like Chad and Darfur. They are real problems, and stay below the public attention most of the time. Some of it's the remains of colonialism, and how boundaries were created by Europeans before spinning these countries off, some of it relates to how different groups interact, and a lot of it has to do with social disintegration and bad government practices that interfere with economic activity.
I've been tracking this area for a long time, and you have to work to find out because it's far from the popular cause du jour. Doesn't mean it's not real, either. Would be nice if we could go in, shake some heads and say, "Stop running your countries foolishly. Do things that will let your economies grow. Stop fighting, and start building." But that doesn't happen in this world.
Bingo!
Day trip from club med.
Check book closed.
Traitor!
Too Yung Fo Yoo!
"U.S. actress Mia Farrow began a weeklong tour Saturday of Central African Republic saying she wanted to draw attention - and aid - to one of the world's most forgotten crises."
I think this woman is seriously mentally disturbed and must be living a very unhappy and empty life.
She needs deprogramming and fast.
As for your crack laying the blame for Allen's sins at her feet, well, not only does it lack class, it is it off base since Farrow essentially ended her career to be with her kids. It makes you sound like the holier-than-thou, my-%^%$-doesn't-stink, God-and-I-will-judge busybody down the street.
I kept thinking that she was one weird, messed up woman, then I lamented that the exchange students I was with would think that this was typical American celebrity behavior.
Maybe it is.
It's not Western Civ.
Ms. Farrow said, "the fact that everyone in Hollywood has forgotten who I am has reached a crisis!"
For those who have forgotten who Mia Farrow is, she used to be Woody Allen's girlfriend until he started playing footsie with her daughter.
I apologize if it was over the top.
I do understand your initial intention. If it were any other 'celebrity' I would likely agree with you about this being nothing but a self-serving photo-op. But, Farrow has avoided the limelight for most of her adult life and has adopted something like ten kids (to raise - not as trophies).
Mia handed the baby back, unlike Madonna
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