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Monday, October 24, 2005
India Uncut Nugget 19
It's funny how much America can influence countries just by their pop culture. You can do a lot more with pop culture than dropping Patriot missiles. You can get away with so much more. Because it's just so appealing. How many girlfriends I lost because of John Travolta, because the girls were looking for a guy who could dance like Travolta? It's amazing how much we were infiltrated with no resistance. "Saturday Night Fever," "Star Wars," it's like we were living parallel.Ziad Doueiri, director of West Beyrouth
, in this interview by Anthony Kaufman. (Link via Chandrahas Choudhury's fine review of the film.)More Nuggets and Aphorisms here.
