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February 28, 2009 11:27 AM

Hollywood Comes To Tehran

Less than a week after the Oscar broadcast showed Hollywood embrace the Bollywood-influenced "Slumdog Millionaire," luminaries from the American film industry travelled to Iran to talk about world cinema.

Sid Ganis, president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and eight other well-known Hollywood figures arrived in Tehran on Friday, reports CBS News' Leily Lankarani.

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