Cast member Naomi Watts attends the gala screening of "Mother and Child" at Roy Thomson Hall during the 34th Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 14, 2009. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)
So then Naomi Watts turns to me and says...
My day as an extra on the set of "Fair Game," a film about the Valerie Plame affair.
AMAN, Jordan — The night before the big shoot, I got a call from the extras coordinator. I was to show up the next day on set as a business traveler passing through Jordan’s Queen Alia International Airport on his way to Iraq.
As someone who regularly travels to Iraq on business via Queen Alia, this didn’t seem all that complicated: To my mind, she was asking me to...
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Jordanian copyright pirates behave not unlike Chicago gangsters during prohibition.
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Iraqis understand what Americans do not.
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