The 2008 TIME 100 Finalists
Read about the leaders, artists, enterpreneurs and thinkers who, in your opinion, deserve a spot on this year's TIME 100 —Scott Brown and Michelle Kung
AGE: 63
OCCUPATION: Actress and activist
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 2
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0
PRO: It takes some gall to compare Steven Spielberg to Leni Riefenstahl, but wispy Mia Farrow mustered it — on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal, no less. A passionate defender of Sudan's embattled Darfur region, Farrow blasted the director for working as an artistic adviser to the Beijing Olympics. (China's oil-hunger keeps the Sudanese regime in power.) Spielberg eventually pulled out.
CON: Spielberg's camp called Farrow's fiery frontal assault "irresponsible," and implied that he was doing more from within the belly of the beast than she could ever accomplish as a gadfly.
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