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...They asked us to contribute some tough, hardworking people to train for missions inside Iraq," says Janabi. "So I gave them al-Jaburi." The introduction, al-Jaburi recalls, was made in a coffee shop in Amman on Oct. 18. Al-Jaburi says CIA officers, with the aid of a lie detector, questioned him for days on a range of topics, including whether he was volunteering or being coerced to join. One question probed what he would do if he found his brother fighting against him. "I'd kill him," al-Jaburi says he answered. On Nov. 22, al-Jaburi says...
...lie to you," says Jackman. "In the months leading up to this, I've been more nervous than I have been in a long time. I'm acutely aware I'm putting a lot on the line." Jackman is not unfamiliar with the stage. He was nominated for an Olivier Award for his role as Curly in the West End production of Oklahoma! in 1998. But Oz's success relies heavily--as did Peter Allen's--on charm. Luckily, charm is Jackman's long suit...
...joke: "My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time." It's typical of Davis to ruin a perfectly good joke with a lie: his mother was Cuban, a nationality that was, in white America circa 1966, even less popular than Puerto Rican. But there's also a truth tucked inside the lie: Davis was running away from himself, as many ways as he possibly could...
...People just lie to you all the time. I hate that,” she said. “I think sometimes the actor in me suffered because of the producer in me…It was a very strange experience...
Best or worst lie you’ve ever told? “Mom, I wasn’t doing drugs! OK, fine...