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"Jon Stewart deserves a vacation, but he&amp;#x27;s not taking one&amp;amp;#8212;he&amp;#x27;s taking a hiatus from The Daily Show this summer to make his film-directing debut. Now, the man has undeniably become a more important voice politically with each passing year of the show, but since I still think of him as an entertainer first and foremost&amp;amp;#8212;with a wickedly sharp sense of humor&amp;amp;#8212;I assumed we were talking about a comedy. Let us not forget the man was in Big Daddy. Nope. The film will be called Rosewater, and it&amp;#x27;s based on the book Then They Came for Me: A Family&amp;amp;#8217;s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival, by Maziar Bahari, a journalist who was imprisoned by the Iranian government in 2009. There&amp;#x27;s a Daily Show connection here&amp;amp;#8212;Bahari spoke with correspondent Jason Jones for a package shortly before he was arrested. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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