I was wondering why I had become such an avid reader of Roger L. Simon’s blog. He too has a great admiration for Lena Olin. Wow! What a lady, until of course her career for some reason seemed to have taken a dive after that fiasco with Robert Redford in Havana. I had such great hopes to see her many times again, but it seems Lightness and Enemies seemed to me to be the apex of her career.

I guess I also like your blog for your interest and respect, regardles of politics, in the downtrodden peoples of the world, immigrants, etc. as so well expressed in Lightness and Enemies.

Let us all hope that someday soon the Ali, Omar and other new Iraqi democrats (that is small d democrats) all get their chance to experience some lightness or even a Lena Olin that matter.

Keep up the great blogging.