Tonight's guests are Ramita Navai on The Daily Show and Mandy Patinkin on The Colbert Report.
Ramita Navai is a journalist and author. Her latest book is City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran
Rich, absorbing, and exotic—City of Lies travels up and down Vali Asr Street, Tehran’s pulsing thoroughfare, from the lavish shopping malls of Tajrish through the smog that lingers over the alleyways and bazaars of the city’s southern districts.
Ramita Navai gives voice to ordinary Iranians forced to live extraordinary lives: the porn star, the aging socialite, the assassin and enemy of the state who ends up working for the Republic, the dutiful housewife who files for divorce, and the old-time thug running a gambling den.
In today’s Tehran, intrigues abound and survival depends on an intricate network of falsehoods: mullahs visit prostitutes, local mosques train barely pubescent boys in crowd control tactics, and cosmetic surgeons promise to restore girls’ virginity. Navai paints an intimate portrait of those discreet recesses in a city where the difference between modesty and profanity, loyalty and betrayal, honor and disgrace is often no more than the believability of a lie.
This sounds like it could be a very good interview.
Mandy Patinkin is an actor. He was, of course, Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride, Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on Chicago Hope, Rube Sofer on Dead Like Me, Jason Gideon on Criminal Minds, Saul Berenson Homeland and Gabe in the new movie Wish I Was Here which is still in some theaters.
I think he is on to promote Homeland which returns Sun, Oct 5 at 9 PM ET/PT. I have never seen it since I don't have Showtime.
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