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May 24 2007 12:00am EDT

Irony Alert: Liberal Hollywood and Big Oil Do Mix

I couldn't help chuckling when I read the recent post on Radar.com that writer/director Stephen Gaghan, who made 2005's recondite indictment of the oil industry Syriana, recently married Minnie Mortimer, the great-grand daughter of Standard Oil president Henry Morgan Tilford. The two go together like Prius-driving actors who still fly private (something that Leonardo DiCaprio, whose environmental disaster documentary The 11th Hour is currently playing Cannes, has recently sworn off).

[Photograph of Stephen Gaghan by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage.com]

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