HEDGES: In September, Judge Forrest ruled that Section 1021 of the NDAA was in fact unconstitutional, and she issued a permanent injunction. During the trial, she had issued a temporary injunction against that law while it was being challenged in court.

The Obama administration, which had appealed the temporary injunction, filed an emergency appeal against the permanent injunction. ….

I think this has to do with internal dissent. I think that, you know, both the lawyers and myself feel that because they issued an emergency appeal, they reacted so aggressively once Judge Forrest declared this section unconstitutional, they are probably already using the NDAA. This is supposition, but probably they are holding dual Pakistan-U.S. nationals in military facilities like Bagram, because if they weren’t using it, they could have just filed an appeal.

The problem is that once the judge declared the law unconstitutional, if they continue to hold American citizens and deny them access to due process, then they would be in contempt of court. And so the rapid response, the—and it was interesting that it was the Pentagon lawyers that filed this emergency appeal. And the issuance of an emergency stay or temporary stay until the appeal is heard I think essentially is to cover them legally for already putting the NDAA into use. Internally, I really think it has less to do with Iran and a lot more to do with controlling the American public.

Herbert Lom, left, appears with Peter Sellers in "The Pink Panther Strikes Again." Lom's first time out as the long-suffering Charles Dreyfus was in “A Shot in the Dark,” the 1964 follow-up to “The Pink Panther,” writer-director Blake Edwards’ 1963 hit that introduced Sellers as Jacques Clouseau. (Keystone / Getty Images)

Herbert Lom dies at 95; played Chief Inspector Dreyfus in 'Pink Panther' movies

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-herbert-lom-20120928,0,5871882.story

Herbert Lom's memorable character was reduced to eye-twitching madness opposite Peter Sellers' bumbling Inspector Clouseau. The Czech native appeared in scores of films. He was 95. Lom died Thursday in his sleep at his London home, said the actor's son Alec. A Czech native who immigrated to England just before the start of World War II, Lom carved out a prolific career that included a starring role as the King of Siam in the original 1953 London production of "The King and I."

He also appeared in scores of films over more than 60 years, including playing a crime-gang member in "The Ladykillers" (1955), Napoleon in "War and Peace" (1956), a pirate chieftain in "Spartacus" (1960) and the title role in the Hammer Films production of "The Phantom of the Opera" (1962). But he was "badly typecast in British films," Lom told Australia's Daily Telegraph in 1999, "and it needed an American, Blake Edwards, to take me away from endless villainous roles and into the comedy of the Pink Panther films." Lom's first time out as the long-suffering Charles Dreyfus was in "A Shot in the Dark," the 1964 follow-up to "The Pink Panther," writer-director Edwards' 1963 hit that introduced Sellers as Jacques Clouseau. "I was invited to have lunch at the Dorchester with Blake Edwards," Lom told the Edinburgh Evening News in 2002. "He told me he had seen me playing heavy villains and thought I was funny.

"At first I didn't take it as a compliment. But then he explained that he did not want a comic actor who would play Dreyfus for laughs." Lom viewed his involvement in the Pink Panther films playing "a blithering idiot named Inspector Dreyfus," as a highlight of his career. "I loved playing the part of a blabbering lunatic of a police inspector," he said. "I think people like to see the police in such trouble; they enjoy seeing the inspector reduced to an utter, twitching wreck." The twitch was Lom's idea. "I had a scene with Peter in my office," he told the (London) Independent in 2004. "He said something like, 'Don't worry chief, I'll settle it,' and gave me an encouraging wink. So I started winking out of nervousness and couldn't stop." It wasn't in the script, he said, but Edwards loved it.

"But it became a problem," Lom said. "I made those films for 20 years, and after 10 years they ran out of good scripts. They used to say to me, 'Herbert, wink here, wink.' And I said, 'I'm not going to wink. You write a good scene and I won't have to wink.'"

Born Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich ze Schluderpacheru in Prague on Sept. 11, 1917, Lom attended Prague University and studied acting at the Prague School of Acting. He already had been in a couple of films before leaving Czechoslovakia for England in early 1939. After launching his career in England and serving as a radio announcer for the BBC's Czech-language section during the war, he became a British citizen. Lom, who had signed a seven-year-contract with 20th Century Fox in the in the early '50s, was refused an entry visa by the U.S. government, he told Australia's Daily Telegraph in 1999.

"No reason was given," he said. "It was clearly political. I was judged to be a 'fellow traveler' and a victim of the anti-Communist fever at that time in America. My political inclinations were certainly leftish, but I had never been a member of the Communist Party."

A big acting break came in 1953 when he was offered the part of the King of Siam in the West End production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I." He played the king for two years and received rave reviews, including one from critic Kenneth Tynan, who wrote, "The show took Drury Lane by typhoon last night and Mr. Lom is practically an act of God."

Among Lom's later credits are the 1970s horror films "Asylum," "And Now the Screaming Starts!" and "Count Dracula" (opposite Christopher Lee) and the 1983 film "The Dead Zone."

He also wrote two novels, "Enter a Spy: The Double Life of Christopher Marlowe" (1978) and "Dr. Guillotine: The Eccentric Exploits of an Early Scientist" (1992).

Besides his son Alec, Lom is survived by another son, Nicholas; a daughter, Josephine; and seven grandchildren.

...Mr. Lom’s first major Hollywood successes were “The Seventh Veil” (1945), with James Mason, in which he played a psychiatrist treating a suicidal musician, and Jules Dassin’s noir masterpiece “Night and the City” (1950), in which he played a chilling but remorseful gangster.

But he flourished in comedy as well, notably alongside Sellers and Alec Guinness in “The Ladykillers” (1955) and later as the twitchy, long-suffering Chief Inspector Dreyfus, who is eventually driven insane by Sellers’s bumbling Inspector Clouseau. He played Dreyfus in seven Pink Panther movies, from “A Shot in the Dark” (1964) to “Son of the Pink Panther” (1993), which was made 13 years after Sellers’s death and starred Roberto Benigni as Clouseau’s son...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/arts/herbert-lom-frustrated-boss-of-inspector-clouseau-dies-at-95.html

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