Comments on: Dith Pran, RIP

Dith Pran, RIP

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:23:23 -0800

Dith Pran, the photojournalist whose story inspired the film The Killing Fields, has died.

By: WPW

WPW — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:30:29 -0800

By: aheckler

aheckler — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:32:27 -0800

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:32:31 -0800

By: cazoo

cazoo — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:32:53 -0800

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:36:41 -0800

By: amyms

amyms — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:37:33 -0800

By: etaoin

etaoin — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:41:10 -0800

And a genuinely sweet and gentle and humorous man, completely unaffected by his celebrity.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:41:52 -0800

Pancreatic cancer. Jesus. Hadn't he been through enough for one life?

By: msali

msali — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:44:31 -0800

I like what he said about how Cambodians feel like their body is just a home that they inhabit for a short period of time. When the house gets termites, it's time to move. What a guy. Classy to the very end. .

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:44:38 -0800

By: beagle

beagle — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:46:15 -0800

By: skyper

skyper — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:55:34 -0800

He gave a talk at a local high school here around four years ago. I was so excited to see him in person. Never have tired of watching the movie. It'll be even harder though, with so many associated with its making, no longer with us. .

By: longdaysjourney

longdaysjourney — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:58:44 -0800

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:59:25 -0800

Is the original magazine article that started it all available online? The 75-page book version seems to be out of print.

By: LeeJay

LeeJay — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:02:40 -0800

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:32:52 -0800

I like what he said about how Cambodians feel like their body is just a home that they inhabit for a short period of time. You might like these pieces from the CBC program Dispatches about efforts to try Khmer Rogue figures and the schism between the international war crimes tribunal's idea of justice and that of the Cambodian peoples'. .

By: kaibutsu

kaibutsu — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:34:25 -0800

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:43:35 -0800

By: paddysat

paddysat — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:47 -0800

. ....and a second on what maudlin said. That is the worst.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:11:56 -0800

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:20:24 -0800

By: emperor.seamus

emperor.seamus — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:12:32 -0800

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ottereroticist — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:20:45 -0800

By: Ludi

Ludi — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:29:48 -0800

By: any major dude

any major dude — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:29:49 -0800

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:44:15 -0800

By: scblackman

scblackman — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:08:08 -0800

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billypilgrim — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:47:35 -0800

By: Durn Bronzefist

Durn Bronzefist — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:07:38 -0800

By: cybercoitus interruptus

cybercoitus interruptus — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:32:27 -0800

By: bwg

bwg — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:42:41 -0800

. And one for Dr. Haing S. Ngor, who survived Cambodia, portrayed Dith Pran in the film The Killing Fields, only to be murdered in Los Angeles. .

By: !Jim

!Jim — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:49:30 -0800

I'm almost sure that on Friday, I heard a bit of an interview with Sydney Schanberg on NPR wherein he described his separation from and eventual reunion with Dith Pran. He also talked more about Dith Pran's life since coming to the US and a bit about what were to be his final days. For the life of me, I can't find it on NPR or PRI's websites though. .

By: RyanB

RyanB — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:49:51 -0800

Great film

By: snsranch

snsranch — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:52:17 -0800

What bwg said. . .

By: jaruwaan

jaruwaan — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:14:14 -0800

By: the cydonian

the cydonian — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:52:04 -0800

. _{(One of my guilty pleasures at Phnom Penh was to look-up buildings/ junctions from the movie, Killing Fields.)}

By: Lucie

Lucie — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:52:38 -0800