{"id":1995,"date":"2007-02-15T16:55:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T16:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2007-02-15T16:55:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T16:55:59","slug":"2007-2-15-omar-sharif-bully-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1995","title":{"rendered":"Omar Sharif, bully"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Omar Sharif, the man who famously bullied Edward Said when they were at school together, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/print?id=2872320\">done it again<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-indent:20pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/omar.h1-tm.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.arabist.net\/wp-content\/\/omar.h1.jpg','popup','width=357,height=431,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/omar.h1-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"82\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"6\" alt=\"Omar.H1\" \/><\/a>BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. &#8211; Omar Sharif pleaded no contest Tuesday to misdemeanor battery and was ordered to take an anger management course for punching a parking valet who refused to accept his European currency.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian-born actor, known for his roles in &#8220;Doctor Zhivago&#8221; and &#8220;Lawrence of Arabia,&#8221; wasn&#8217;t required to be in court and the plea was entered on his behalf by attorney Harland Braun. Sharif, 74, was in Egypt on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawsuit, Sharif was belligerent and intoxicated and called Anderson, a Guatemalan immigrant, a &#8220;stupid Mexican&#8221; when he refused to accept a 20 euro note.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson alleged Sharif then punched him.<\/p>\n<p>Braun said Sharif decided to plead no contest because it would cost too much to fly to Los Angeles and testify.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Omar Sharif, the man who famously bullied Edward Said when they were at school together, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/print?id=2872320\">done it again<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-indent:20pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/omar.h1-tm.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.arabist.net\/wp-content\/\/omar.h1.jpg','popup','width=357,height=431,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/omar.h1-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"82\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"6\" alt=\"Omar.H1\" \/><\/a>BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. &#8211; Omar Sharif pleaded no contest Tuesday to misdemeanor battery and was ordered to take an anger management course for punching a parking valet who refused to accept his European currency.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian-born actor, known for his roles in &#8220;Doctor Zhivago&#8221; and &#8220;Lawrence of Arabia,&#8221; wasn&#8217;t required to be in court and the plea was entered on his behalf by attorney Harland Braun. Sharif, 74, was in Egypt on Tuesday.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nAccording to the lawsuit, Sharif was belligerent and intoxicated and called Anderson, a Guatemalan immigrant, a &#8220;stupid Mexican&#8221; when he refused to accept a 20 euro note.<br \/>\nAnderson alleged Sharif then punched him.<br \/>\nBraun said Sharif decided to plead no contest because it would cost too much to fly to Los Angeles and testify.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[102,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}