Lights! Camera! Prison!

Mpls (red)Star Tribune(online)/ Scripps Howard News Service ^ | 10/5/02 | DALE McFEATTERS

[Valin]

This story hasn't gotten much attention outside the film industry, but it is illuminating about our new would-be friends in the government of Vietnam who still can't quite grasp the concept of freedom of expression.

Don Duong was Vietnam's leading actor and, like any actor, he aspired to the big time, Hollywood, and he made it, appearing in the Mel Gibson Vietnam War epic "We Were Soldiers" and "Green Dragon," a drama with Patrick Swayze about Vietnamese refugees in this country.

[William McKinley]

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[eddie willers]

Hollywood makes unflattering movies about Americans all the time.

Ain't that the truth.

[Reo]

"This story hasn't gotten much attention outside the film industry"

Well, gee whiz, I wonder why? Could it be that most of our own media agree with "...Hanoi's view of how the war should be portrayed. The North Vietnamese should be shown as resolute and fearless patriots; the South Vietnamese as American dupes; and the Americans, according to the Los Angeles Times, as "arrogant imperialists." What a surprise!(not).

[Valin]

Well that's because we ARE evil!
You really have to start paying attention,
Because I'm not always going to be here to tell you these things. :-)

[B4Ranch]

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