TEMS: Jim Geraghty, Soraya producer John Shepherd, Hurt Locker’s Mark Boal
posted at 12:30 pm on June 25, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (Special time: 2:30 pm ET), we have a great show on tap! We start early with John Shepherd, one of the producers of The Stoning of Soraya M, a brilliant film opening tomorrow in limited release around the country. We’ll talk about how the film came to be made, the hurdles it had to clear to get into theaters, and the message Shepherd and the rest of the people at MPower hope to tell with it.
Afterwards, Jim Geraghty joins me to discuss the politics of the day, including the meltdown in South Carolina and the Dukakis moment from Obama last night. In the middle of that hour, we’ll talk with Mark Boal, the screenwriter for The Hurt Locker, who embedded with a bomb-disposal unit in Iraq and tells his story in this new documentary. It opens in wide release next week, but New York City and Los Angeles moviegoers can catch it this weekend.
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Dude, I saw an interview on BBC America with one of the actresses there. She was BRILLIANT. Fox definitely needs to find her and book her. She played the aunt or sister of the girl that got stoned.
Everyone should see her interview. Basically her theme was ‘we should denounce stoning women’. It’s something everyone should be for. . . but in her interview, she went over the many times people in the Islamic world didn’t accept that view, or it was ‘nuanced’.
Seriously, look into booking her. That woman should be famous. I’m so glad I caught her interview.
ThackerAgency on June 25, 2009 at 1:59 PM
I did wonder what invitation Iran would extend to America in return for the (belatedly rescinded) July 4 “hot dog” diplomacy.
http://trackacrat.com/2009/06/23/hot-dog-diplomacy/
One Against Many on June 25, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Go see this film. It depicts the horrors of Islam and Islamic society.
johnnybgood on June 25, 2009 at 4:03 PM
I hope that you aren’t insinuating that The Hurt Locker is a documentary. It’s not. It’s a character study of a seemingly fearless bomb diffuser in Iraq. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, among others) It looks intriguing as all get-out, or more accurately, all blow-up.
L.N. Smithee on June 26, 2009 at 8:34 AM
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