Grant Heslov
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"Grant Heslov" is an American actor, film producer, screenwriter and director, known for producing Argo (2012 film)/Argo (2012) for which he received an Academy Award for Best Picture as co-producer in 2013. He is also known for portraying Robbie in the 1996 screwball comedy Black Sheep (1996 film)/Black Sheep.

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That's like a word in the dictionary now. It doesn't surprise me, but it makes me kinda sad. And it makes me a little frightened.

We didn't grow up in that generation. But we're fascinated by that time. We've talked about what that kind of activism must have been like. I think this is kind of our way of experiencing it.

We've been friends for 25 years, and he slept on my couch when he couldn't get a job. I loaned him $100 (56 pounds) so he could get his first set of head shots, so it's particularly gratifying, truly, for me to see him rise.

His public persona dictates that he's the life of the party -- which he is -- and that he's all about fun -- which he is.

Then it was the threat of communism; now it's the threat of terrorism - though I think terrorism is a more real threat. But even through all that, the question is how much of our civil liberties are we willing to give up.

But it took a Murrow, because Murrow had an audience unlike any of these other guys.