Posted on Saturday, 28th February 2009 by Bruce

Gosh, I hope they make it back safely.

“A top-level team from the Hollywood movie industry traveled to Iran on a non-government mission, for a weekend of cultural and creative exchange meetings, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Friday.

“I can confirm that a group of Academy members … are currently in Iran” on a “completely private initiative for educational and creative exchange and with no political agenda,” AMPAS director of communications Leslie Unger told AFP.

She confirmed Iranian media reports saying the delegation included AMPAS president Sid Ganis, former president Frank Pierson, actress Annette Bening and producer William Horberg.”

That would be William Horberg, Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed movie “Milk,” for which Sean Penn took home the Academy Award for “Best Actor” last Sunday night.

In the movie, Penn portrays gay-rights pioneer Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States in 1977. Milk was shot to death by a colleague the following year.

Leaves me wondering whether the phrase “Shi’a Muslim, homo-loving sons-of-guns” will be used at any time during the “cultural and creative exchange.”

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