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Maybe La-la-land isn’t such a souless place.

Steven Spielberg jumped into action after Mia Farrow wrote an open letter to the Wall Street Journal comparing Spielberg’s’s involvement as artistic director of the Beijing games to that of Nazi propaganda filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. Four days later Spielberg wrote a letter to the president of China and shortly thereafter a top Chinese diplomat was dispatched to Darfur to pressure the Sudanese government to accept UN peace keepers. Previously China had abstained from involving themselves in internal affairs in order to keep open access to Sudanese oil.

Hollywood accomplishes in a week what diplomats have been working on for years.

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