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Article: 'Kite Runner' actors safe in Emirates
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- International Herald Tribune
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- December 5, 2007
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David M. Halbfinger The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
12-05-2007
'Kite Runner' actors safe in Emirates
Byline: David M. Halbfinger The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 4
Section: FEATURES
LOS ANGELES --
The "Kite Runner" boys are safely out of Kabul. After months of worrying and diplomatic wrangling from half a world away, the movie studio that is releasing the tale of childhood betrayal, ethnic tension and sexual predation in Afghanistan has whisked to safety four young actors. They were feared to be vulnerable to reprisal because of the film's depiction of a culturally inflammatory rape scene.
The boys, each accompanied by a relative, arrived in the United Arab ...
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... ... actors in the movie The Kite Runner have left Afghanistan ... executive said. The Kite Runner, which had its world ... Afghanistan and arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Friday ... the country before The Kite Runner opens Dec. 14 in the ...
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