It's good to read this morning that Steve Spielberg has resigned his post as artistic advisor to this year's Olympic Games in Beijing. Given China's support, or lack of condemnation of the conflict in Sudan his conscience will no loner allow him to continue. Considering he wrote to the Chinese government last April asking them to take action and received no reply, it's hard to see why it's taken him this long to act. Perhaps he just wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Anyway, it's right and proper thart he's resigned and he should be appluaded for it but I found this part of the report a little annoying. "At this point, my time and energy must be spent not on Olympic ceremonies but on doing all I can to help bring an end to the unspeakable crimes against humanity that continue to be committed in Darfur." Surely by quitting he's done enough. The publicity will hurt the Chinese, or the Olympics at least, and that's all he can really achieve. In the meantime, his time and energy should be spent on the new Indiana Jones film.
Like all the other movie stars who like to get involved in these things, don't you wish that he should stick to what he does best?
Still - well done, that man.
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