As senior Pentagon officals are now being quoted as saying military action against Iran is “inevitable” I thought it’s a good time to post a story I did in 1996. The Iran I saw is a lot different than the one Washington would like to portray. Granted it was a different government there, a different agenda here, but I don’t think the human spirit has changed much. Here’s Part 1 of the story I did for NIGHTLINE.
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- JOSEF VON STERNBERG The Scarlet Empress, The Devil Is a Woman, Shanghai Express – von Sternberg’s movies were about treachery and shadows
- PROBABLY THE GREATEST DIRECTOR IN THE WORLD — Jean Renoir by one of the foremost critics of cinema. He's co-authored scripts with Ken Loach and Med Hondo as well as having written extensively on Nicholas Ray whom he know quite well having worked wit Jean Renoir
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- PARIS NOTEBOOK I first met Phyllis Flick ten years ago when she’d moved to Paris on a whim. Apparently she spent the last decade finding … well her latest posts are about where to find the best ice creams and a tour of Kurdish cuisine
- Beth Arnold A LETTER FROM PARIS Very cool, thoughts, visits, exhibits — letters from someone who lives here
- PARIS BREAKFAST Carol Gilot’s blog is lively and fun but her drawings and watercolors of food, chefs and even a cup of coffee … WOW!!!!
- Ralph Starkweather I know Ralph but that’s not why I’m posting his site – he’s an incredible photographer now filmmaker
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“As senior Pentagon officals are now being quoted as saying military action against Iran is “inevitable””
Oh sighsighsighsighsigh.
Interesting to see this piece 14 years later with everything that’s happened in the interim.
I was a very little kid in the early 70s in Madison, WI, and my parents had a bunch of Iranian friends that my dad knew from the Engineering Department at the U of Wisc. I loved hanging out with these friends, who were warm and gracious people. That experience, some university studies in the Middle East, and reading books like Reading Lolita in Teheran makes me understand that demonizing a people group based on their leadership is just ass backwards. Yeah, this is right on: “Granted it was a different government there, a different agenda here, but I don’t think the human spirit has changed much.”