Kamangir (Archer)

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1. AMT | September 26th, 2007 at 9:24 pm

   So, he was arrested in the show for being DUI and now he’s being arrested in real life for being DUI, or he’s being arrested for being a secret agent.

   That’s not that interesting, especially when you’re on the verge of political climate change with the superpowers of the world…I wonder who watches 24 anyway?

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3. RoxieAmerica | September 26th, 2007 at 10:11 pm

   I have never watched the show.

4. Carlos | September 27th, 2007 at 11:14 am

   Archer:
   Keifer Sutherland’s father is Donald Sutherland,a well know actor born in Canada.
   I saw the TV show for years but not the last season.I don’t know if that TV show looks as anti-iranian.
   Recently Kiefer filmed a TV commercial spot with an argentinian actrees and model.

5. serendip | September 27th, 2007 at 11:26 am

   The reason they call it anti-Iranian is because Shohreh Aghdashloo, an Iranian actress (before the revolution) played a role of terrorist in the series.

6. serendip | September 27th, 2007 at 11:29 am

   From wikipedia on Shohreh Aghdashloo:

   Aghdashloo made her American film debut in 1989 in a starring role in Guests Of Hotel Astoria. Her TV debut came in 1990 in a guest role in the 25 September, two-hour episode of the NBC television series Matlock, titled “Nowhere to Turn: A Matlock Mystery Movie”. Aghdashloo played a saleslady and was credited for this simply as Shohreh. She returned to American TV three years later when she played a guest role in the popular comedy series Martin. In the episode from April 1, 1993, she played the character Malika. In that same year she also made her next film appearance in Twenty Bucks, playing Ghada Holiday. After seven years, Aghdashloo returned once again to the American film industry in 2000, starring in the critically acclaimed Maryam (in which she played Mrs. Armin) and Surviving Paradise. After appearing as an exiled actress in America So Beautiful in 2001, Aghdashloo shot to fame in 2003 co-starring opposite Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly in director Vadim Perelman’s House of Sand and Fog, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

   Following this exposure, she received good reviews for her 12 season-four episodes of the Fox Broadcasting television series 24, playing Dina Araz, a Muslim terrorist undercover in Los Angeles as a well-to-do housewife and mother. This storyline raised controversy in Iranian-American and Muslim-American communities, and in an interview with Time magazine, Aghdashloo stated that although she had previously resisted reinforcing the stereotype of Muslims as terrorists, the strength and complexity of the role convinced her to accept the part. Jonathan Ahdout played her son both in House of Sand and Fog and 24. She went on to guest star on two episodes of NBC shows that were broadcast the same night, March 23, 2006: The “Cowboys and Iranians” episode of the comedy Will & Grace, in which she played a wannabe interior designer who, to the confusion of Grace, is a Jewish Persian; and the “Lost in America” episode of the medical drama ER, playing a bereaved mother who loses her daughter in the trauma room.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shohreh_Aghdashloo

   Kamangir: Thanks Serendip. :)

7. Carlos | September 27th, 2007 at 11:41 am

   Well Serendip,good stuff you posted.Thanks.I will buy the last season’s DVD.

8. Roman Kalik | September 27th, 2007 at 12:18 pm

   Interesting.

9. faridpouya | September 30th, 2007 at 7:55 am

   24 is NOT an anti Iran series.In 5 or 6 years of 24 series only a few times indirectly Iran was mentioned.There are several times White House and even USA President are considered as very corrupt people.Then we can consider them anti USA too.Please do not judge media like Islamic Republic.

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