Will UNICEF do anything about it?
After a manipulative article by Mia Farrow which castigated Steven Spielberg as being an agent of propaganda for the Chinese government in a similar way Leni Riefenstahl was when she depicted the Berlin Olympic Games in the 1936 film "Olympia," Spielberg is thinking about dropping his voluntary role.
Farrow irresponsibly asked in The Wall Street Journal (DJ), "Is Mr. Spielberg, who in 1994 founded the Shoah Foundation to record the testimony of survivors of the Holocaust, aware that China is bankrolling Darfur's genocide?"
"Does Mr. Spielberg really want to go down in history as the Leni Riefenstahl of the Beijing Games?"
In response, Spielberg is contemplating stepping down from was simply an upaid position as an artistic advisor to the Beijing Olympics' opening ceremonies.
A few days after the Wall Street Journal allowed the propaganda by Farrow to be written, Spielberg wrote an open letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao asking that he would put more pressure on the government in Khartoum to allow a U.N. peacekeeping force to be inserted into Darfur.
Spielberg representative Andy Spahn says Speilberg is waiting for a response from Chinese authorities before making a decision.
Farrow later said her "intention was never to hurt" Spielberg's feelings, but rather to "move things."
This goes far beyond hurting Spielberg's feelings, she's publically lied about the man and made assertions that are so outrageous and ignorant that she is inexcusable. Spielberg should have sued her rather than capitulate to her ignorant ranting.
A idea of comparing China with Hitler's Germany is the first irresponsible statement she made. To connect the Chinese olympics in the same way Reifenstahl portrayed the Berlin Olympic games is nutty at best. To say they're bankrolling the massacre in Darfur is borderline criminal on her part.
The kind of psychological tactics and lies that Farrow used on Spielberg were nothing less than evil. She obviously had handlers in this to perform this vicious attack upon him.
For Farrow to say that Spielberg will go down in history as a Leni Riefenstahl was about as irresponsible statement as I've ever heard coming out of the myriad of nutty statements Hollywood personalities make. Where are Spielberg's friends now? Why aren't that striking back at the screwball comments of Farrow?
UNICEF, for whom Farrow is the Goodwill Ambassador, should ask her to step down and stop using the platform to viciously lie and attack people in an attempt to manipulate and destroy them.
Her comment that she wants to "move things," shows she's come to the fanatical stage where she'll do anything to aid her chosen cause, no matter what it costs.
This wacky nut needs to be taken out of the public arena. It looks like she's just trying to get her career started up again.
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