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...year-old actor is playing a poor army recruit from a village in central India who runs just to get the extra ration of food allotted to athletes. At his first race, his character doesn't know what to do when the pistol sounds, so he prays. "You idiot! Run!" the starter screams. That spurs the soldier into action, and the naive confusion on his face turns into determination. Extras from the Bengal Sappers - actual young army recruits who live on the base in Roorkee in northern Uttarakhand state, where the movie is being filmed - crowd around the sidelines...
...said, ‘I’ve got to put a burger on this idiot,’” said Bartley. “He must have set America back a dozen years...
...Call Me the Idiot I am one of the antireform liberals Joe Klein disparages in "Village Idiots" [Jan. 11]. While the value of the health care reform bill is debatable - 30 million people may get coverage that may or may not be worthwhile - I can't understand why anyone would not be outraged that the government is forcing them to buy private insurance from an industry that routinely pays CEOs seven figures while denying sick, dying people coverage. How is that not outrageous? Ezra Abrams Newton, Mass...
...There was no doubt he was smart, but he was a racist and a misanthrope. He remained socially awkward and unable to control his emotions or impulses. He did have some friends, but most of the platoon viewed him less as a class clown and more as the village idiot - occasionally entertaining as spectacle, but best kept at an arm's-length...
...Rubber, You're Glue--Now Call Me an Idiot...