Richard Dreyfuss Can’t Remember His Anti-American Dialogue

Richard Dreyfuss and Elizabeth McGovern have travelled across the pond to star in a play about America’s torture of terrorist suspects.  That’s right, not “alleged” torture. It’s a fact as far as this play is concerned.  And, the funny thing about the Variety review is that the fact that the whole world knows that America is guilty of torture undermines the effect of the play: 

The terrible timing is not Kevin Spacey’s fault: He couldn’t have known “Complicit” — U.S. dramatist Joe Sutton’s fictional indictment of his country’s possible condoning of torture and rendition — would premiere after President Obama had taken steps to dismantle that practice.

Clips of a TV interview with real-life BBC senior political commentator Andrew Marr provide details of Ben’s inflammatory publication, none of which can be news to British audiences with even a cursory knowledge of Guantanamo and other widely exposed scandals. (more…)