Spielberg, China, genocide, and Mia Farrow
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008I need to start eating more cod liver oil or ginseng. My memory is deteriorating.
I heard two weeks ago that Steven Spielberg quit his gig as artistic muckety-muck for the 2008 Beijing Olympics to protest China’s support for the Sudanese government’s genocidal killings in Darfur.
But only ten minutes ago did I remember I wrote last year about how Spielberg didn’t seem to have any problem with China’s actions until actress Mia Farrow publicly shamed him.
Wrote Farrow in a Wall Street Journal op-ed:
“Does Mr. Spielberg really want to go down in history as the Leni Riefenstahl of the Beijing Games?”
Nearly one year since Farrow publicly asked the question, Spielberg has finally answered no.
