Being There With ISIS and Thomas L. Friedman
Category: MEDIA
In film director Hal Ashsby's classic Being There (1979), Peter Sellers plays Chance Gardner, an idiot man-child whose nonsensical comments are mistaken for profundity. Chance, as realized by Sellers, is a classic comic character. Thomas L. Friedman is not trying to be funny.
By Jonathan S. Shapiro, ContributorFormer federal prosecutor, 2014-10-14