Posted on 03/02/2009 6:33:49 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
TEHRAN (AFP) — Top US film actress Annette Bening, in Iran as part of a Hollywood delegation, said on Sunday she hoped their presence in the country can help to kick-start talks between arch-foes Washington and Tehran.
"I hope that we can be a bridge to open a dialogue between the two countries", Bening, wearing a black traditional hejab and headscarf, told reporters.
She is part of a team of film-makers and actors from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the organisation which stages the annual Oscars, that is currently on a week-long visit to the Islamic republic.
The delegation is on a private initiative to stage workshops with their Iranian counterparts, a rarity in a country where the authorities brand the United States the "Great Satan."
After her brief statement, Bening and the other team members began a three-day workshop at Tehran's museum of cinema, an AFP photographer said.
The film star's remarks come a day after an aide to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged the Hollywood team to apologise for "insults and slanders" dealt to Iranians in American movies.
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That is enough to make me puke....
"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win. Get it, Mr. Bush?"
[actual quote from Michael Moore (2004). It still appears on his website]
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-04-14
Maybe they are doing IRAN CIS?
Almost as puke inducing as the Demi Moore pledge video. She sure must think she has some amazing powers.
Penn Hangs Again With Pal Chavez:
http://www.newser.com/story/40507/penn-hangs-again-with-pal-chavez.html
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Sean Penn Applauds as Venezuela's Chavez Bashes Bush:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291855,00.html
I see more actors are suffering from “Penn Syndrome”.
> Last week the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, Hassan Ghashghavi, said that Hollywood was producing 30 more anti-Iranian films.<
Maybe he meant anti-American.
Is that special. Perhaps they can have dialog on what Iran does to homos.
What a bunch of jerks! They’re hoping that the terrorists will cut their heads off last. What a bunch of dumb$hits!
Wouldn’t surprise me if the terrorists don’t kidnap the goofs and hold them for Jimmy-Carter style ransom . . . and our PUTUS would start us all over again . . . Jumma’ Carter style!
Her landlord pounds on her door and demands the rent, but she tells him to come in. He is reluctant.
Why? When he walks in there she is lying gloriously naked in her bed with the month's rent in cash lying on the nightstand.
Without speaking a word the landlord knows that once again he won't be getting any rent from her that month.
If only she could manage something similar with the Iranian's and their nuclear stockpiles.
This should be on a Street Sign..
This is your brain when you drop out of school and fail history....
Dictators are not your friend..
I think so.
Someone tell these people that they are getting paid big money to pretend they are someone else. They should just be grateful for their good fortune and lay low somewhere.
Hey Annette, while you’re over there go try to buy a bottle of wine. See how well that goes over for you!
A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
Stay there!!
I wish Iran would treat them like they lost their headcsarf
What in the world do they think they are going to achieve by sucking up to people who want to kill them and are sworn enemies of their country? Wonder what she said in her apology. Too bad we don’t have video of that precious moment.
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