Omar Sharif (Arabic: عمر الشريف, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʕomɑɾˤ eʃʃɪˈɾiːf]; born Michel Demitri Shalhoub, [ˈmɑjkel dɪˈmitɾi ʃælˈhuːb]; April 10, 1932) is an Egyptian actor who has starred in Hollywood films including Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Funny Girl. He has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won two Golden Globe Awards.
Omar Sharif was born Michel Dimitri Shalhoub in Alexandria into a Catholic Lebanese family. Sharif graduated from Victoria College, where he was classmates with Edward W. Said. Sharif later graduated from Cairo University with degrees in both mathematics and physics.
In 1953, Sharif began his acting career with a role in Sira` Fi al-Wadi. He quickly rose to stardom, appearing in over 20 Egyptian productions including Ayyamna el helwa with singer Abdel Halim Hafez, La anam in 1958, Sayedat el kasr in 1959 and the Anna Karenina adaptation Nahr el hub in 1961. He also starred with his wife, Egyptian actress Faten Hamama, in several movies as romantic leads.
Plot
A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires a troubled hit man, to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter in check.
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When it comes to war...America means business
An Incendiary Political Cartoon
Business is booming.
Natalie Hegalhuzen: You know that all my writings have called this occupation a violation of international law and its practitioners are criminals?::Brand Hauser: Do you really believe all this stuff you write?::Natalie Hegalhuzen: Anyone who can causes this much mayhem when they didn't have to? The amount of suffering that I've seen?::Brand Hauser: I know. [helicoper flies overhead] [speaking on the phone] Ok. Hold on a sec. [speaking to Natalie again] But the way I look at it is this: the day we can actually feel and hear all the suffering of mankind, that's the day when "The Christ" will come back! So we got that going for us. [speaking on the phone again] I'll be out in a minute. [speaking to Natalie again] Or 'The Buddha', or Allah, whoever floats your boat.
Expo Turaqistan Female Annoncer: Do *not* leave cars unattended! Unattended cars will be crushed and incinerated!
Walken: Every empire is summed up in Rome. The Romans, Hauser, Stewards of the human race, torchbearers of culture! You and I are centurions, honor bound to defend civilization against the barbarians!::Brand Hauser: Let's cut the shit, Walken! I like killing people as much as the next guy, but I signed up to kill the bad ones! Health clinics, trade unionists, journalists, agricultural co-ops, catholic liberation theologians, impoverished Colombian coffee farmers, these are the barbarians that are brave opponents of civilization? We turned Central America into a fuckin' graveyard! Whoever momentarily interrupts the acummulation of our wealth, we pulverize! I'm just not feeling good about that anymore, sir!
GuideStar: When you see something that looks like a frozen gallbladder, that's Greenland.
Brand Hauser: I feel...::GuideStar: Go on.::Brand Hauser: ...like a refugee from the Island of Dr. Moreau. Some morally inverted, twisted character from a Céline novel. The hot sauce helps.
The Vice President: [about Omar] Son of a bitch is trying to build a pipeline through his own cheap fucking country. We didn't liberate Turaqistan to get hustled by some cocksucking fezzhead, Hauser. Terminate. Do do that voodoo that you do so well.
Natalie Hegalhuzen: Nice office.::Marsha Dillon: It's bullet-proof.
Natalie Hegalhuzen: [upon hearing an explosion outside] When did they start attacking inside the Emerald City?::Brand Hauser: I wouldn't call that an attack.::[explosion goes off right outside office]::Brand Hauser: Technically, that was a bombing. At least it sounded like it was. Not an attack, which would imply something else.
Brand Hauser: Look, we've already kicked the shit out of this place. What are we supposed to do? Turn our backs on all the entrepreneur possibilities? Business is a uniquely human response to a moral or cosmic crisis. Whether it's a tsunami or a sustained aerial bombardment, there's the same urgent call for urban renewal.
Brand Hauser: We're excited to have you.::Ooq-Mi-Fay Taqnufmini: Don't get too excited.::Brand Hauser: I'm not that excited.