During idle hours, they have debated who among them would be played by what stars, if any producer for some reason decided to make a movie about how the United States and Iran tried to overcome decades of distrust to craft an agreement limiting Iran’s ability to build a nuclear bomb.
[Secretary of State John] Kerry, US delegation members decided, would be played by Ted Danson, while Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz would be portrayed by Javier Bardem (from “No Country for Old Men”). The silver-haired [Wendy] Sherman would be played by Meryl Streep (as captured in “The Devil Wears Prada”). And Marie Harf, a senior communications adviser, would be portrayed by Kirsten Dunst.
The nuts and twizzlers of Iran nuclear non-proliferation negotiations in Vienna. Not sure that this is an improvement over the Paris what type/size table should be used for the Viet Nam Peace negotiations.
Article makes light-hearted fun of meeting, but it does stand in sharp contrast to those recent past hot tub million dollar conferences that were held by gov’t agency (OPM?).
It would be poetically apt to include Javier Bardem in the Obama cabinet, in light of his assertions that Israel perpetrates genocide.
And, seriously, if these people spend their downtime contemplating Hollywood movies about themselves, then they are not mature adults. But it makes sense that Obama’s people will be, like Obama, narcissistic children.