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...It’s just a fun title to have, that’s how I look at it,” he says. “But does it really change anything? No. I always tell people, I still have to go home, I still have to change diapers, I still have to take out the trash…and I can’t act like an ass to all my friends...
...This is my two kids [on a typical day back home]. My kids are at the track all day…If they want to come see Dad, I live two miles from the track, so [my family] can just hop in the car and come on down. I’m way blessed in that. Maybe some people think it’s a distraction, but it helps me be more focused knowing that my family is happy and taken care...
...sitting in front of my TV, at home, for the sixth consecutive hour, watching “The Wire.” Bubbles, one of the show’s most engaging characters, was a lifelong crack addict until his mid-40s, when a harrowing experience inspires him to slowly and painfully turn his life around and become clean. As he finds a steady job and reconnects with his kin, I could not help but express my happiness to my entire uninterested family, who could not understand why I was spending my entire break watching this crushingly depressing show...
...just good entertainment. Another secret to Lost's success in the Islamic Republic is that it's family-friendly. Unlike in the U.S., the television in Iran tends to be in its own room, away from the dinner table. Families generally sit together to watch shows - veritable home cinemas. (Iranians are notorious film buffs, their love affair with movies stretching back to the birth of cinema itself. The first films were brought to Iran in 1900 by the monarch Mozaffar al-Din Shah, just five years after the Lumière brothers premiered their light machine in Paris.) In order...
Lost came out in a time in Iran when watching a show at home with family and friends was more exciting than anything going on outside. The 2009 presidential election and subsequent rise of the opposition Green Movement changed that. Nonetheless, innumerable Iranians will see the final season of Lost through to the end. "People are very excited about Season 6. They have waited long enough for it," says Ghazaleh. The executive producers of Lost have already promised viewers that not every single mystery will be answered. It remains an open question whether the various plot points of Lost will...