Steven Spielberg To Finally Twist The Chinese Government's Arm On Darfur
mark · 07/20/07 05:09PM
While universally recognized as a deity in the Hollywood community, Steven Spielberg is hardly ever taken to task for squandering his limitless God-powers by using his rainbow-spewing Happy Ending Machine to neatly wrap up his movies' third act problems instead of pointing it in the direction of a war-torn Third World nation to cease its suffering. (In his defense, he hasn't pulled any celestial strings to salvage On the Lot's ratings, either.) But Slate's Kim Masters writes that a recent bit of well-publicized heresy by Mia Farrow, who warned that Spielberg would become the "Leni Riefenstahl of the Beijing Games" by taking a position as an adviser to the Olympics if he didn't use his influence to decry China's support of the Sudanese government, seems to have moved the almighty auteur to intercede: