Hollywood
No#2 on my diss listHollywood.
Where are all the arab actors? Hmm? In Hollywood there are only a few arab actors who I know. Tony Shalob, F Murray Abrahams, Omar Sharif, the one from Star Trek Deep Space 9 and erm thats it. Cant arabs act? Of course we can! So why I only know 3 1/2 actors?
Before 911 attack there were plenty of parts for arabs. Evil Shiekh roles and evil terroist roles were too many. Now after 911 there are now more roles for Evil Shiekhs , and evil terroists and supernatural Mummies. But they are not even played by arabs. They only get indians or latinos or even afro-americans to play arabs but no real arabs. Leish??
I think of two examples straight away. West Wing 'Issac and Ismail'. There is an arab terroist suspect. He is played by an indian hindu man.
& there is Lost, a new program which is very good, partly because it is the 1st time an American program has as its main character and hero a Muslim->Arab->Iraqi->Republican Gaurd Soldier. Waaaw. That is brave for the program makers BUT he is played by a hindu guy aswell. Well 8/10 for effort. As 4 Naveen Andrews, he doesnt even do a good Iraqi accent but does speak arabic half well when the script writers ask for it and can even pass for an Iraqi of Yemani origins.
So. I think there is not enough good arab actors available in Hollywood. And whenever they want the part of a brown terroist and there are no hindu actors around they call a special hot line. Just dial 800-Art Malik.
Mr. You are a credit to your race and mine :-(
posted by Jassim @ 10:52 PM
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