Mandy Patinkin’s Passover Message from Cambodia
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As someone who has spent the past four years reporting in Southeast Asia, I want to make a suggestion: this Passover, put down the Haggadah for a few minutes and read aloud from an essay by actor Mandy Patinkin about his trip to Cambodia.
On the Showtime series “Homeland,” Patinkin plays Saul Berenson, a senior CIA official who tirelessly attempts to thwart terrorist attacks while grappling with boneheaded government officials and unpredictable colleagues. One of the many charms of what he has written here is that it better acquaints us with the real guy behind the role. And yet, as we will see, some of Saul’s passion is evident here too.
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