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Robert Butler talks about the force of mortality.

Timmermann has seen some pretty ugly things, but retains a faith in people’s inner goodness.

A true story of love and loss..of a dog.

After working with Deepa Mehta, Timmermann thinks we’re going to see a globalized Tinseltown.

Timmermann recalls some notable performances, old and new?

Robert DeNiro takes notes.

A great actor has a greatness at his or her core that’s hard to imitate.

Timmermann doesn’t care about the chatter.

When an actor with that special something walks in to a room, it changes color, Timmermann changes.

Timmermann imagines the actor on-screen.

For casting director Bonnie Timmermann Los Angeles is vacation, New York is home.

The child of an opera singer and a boxer finds the right balance for show business.

Obama would be great, and McCain is a paradox.

The Secretary’s programs lack the necessary depth to be effective, Nafisi says.

The West should be fighting extremist ideology.

Azar Nafisi on Iranian culture being more poetry than sharia.

They aren’t identical, Nafisi says.

Even if you don’t agree with her views, Nafisi says, Hirsi Ali should not have to fear for her life for expressing them.

Nafisi’s passion was always literature. Religion was an externally imposed reality.

Nafisi isn’t making up the facts, she says.

The Prophet’s first wife was his boss.

No one should be forced to do something they don’t want to do, Nafisi says.

It is not women who make a big deal out of the hijab, Nafisi says. It is the Islamists.

Nafisi responds to her critics who allege that Iran has become freer since Nafisi left.

Nafisi found many of her old students when the book came out.

There is state power, and then there is the power of the writer to resist the tyranny of reality.

At some point, it isn’t, Nafisi says.

Nabokov, Nafisi says, was a lot more political than he let on.

Trained as a Nabokov scholar, Azar Nafisi formed a very personal bond to the writer’s works.

Nafisi on the “portable world.”