Hollywood Goes to Iran

Inspired perhaps by President Obama’s “unclenched hand” approach to reaching out to “countries that don’t like us very much,” as his former opponent John McCain tepidly used to put it, an unofficial delegation from Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (including current and former AMPAS presidents and Annette Bening, among others), has set out to visit Iran as part of a “cultural exchange.”  

Bening, Iranian actress Fatemeh Motamed Aria and Alfre Woodard in Iran

Exactly what is being exchanged is unclear.  Maybe Ms. Bening et al are lecturing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the mullahs about “the shame they will see in their grandchildren’s eyes” over their denial of equal rights to gays in Iran.  Ahmadinejad memorably told a howling audience at Columbia University in late 2007 that, “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.”  That’s because they are hanged there, which certainly marks the Mormon Church as lightweights when it comes to intolerance of gays.  But for their part, Iranian cultural advisor Javad Shamaghdari laid out for the Hollywood representatives exactly what Iran wants in return: “We will believe Obama’s policy of change when we see change in Hollywood too.”  (more…)

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Posted Mar 2nd 2009 at 8:27 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 70006165 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mtapson/2009/03/02/submission-well-thats-a-bit-of-a-problem/Hollywood+Goes+to+Iran2009-03-02+16%3A27%3A25Mark+Tapson