When Hollywood actor Paul Newman died a little over a month ago, I noted that even the Iranians marked his death.

Now Iranmania is reporting that they are holding a film festival in his honor.

Iran’s 27th Fajr International Film Festival will commemorate the late American actor Paul Newman, the secretariat of the festival announced in a press release, MNA reported.

Several films in which Newman starred will go on display during the festival, which will be held from February 1 to 11, 2009 at various Tehran theaters.

Born in 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, Paul Newman acted in more than 80 films. He produced ten films and was the director of six movies.  He was one of the few actors who successfully made the transition from 1950s cinema to that of the 1960s and 1970s.

He went on to become one of the top box office draws of the 1960s, starring in such classic films as “The Hustler”, “The Prize”, “Hud”, “Cool Hand Luke”, and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”.  He also produced and directed many high quality films, including “Rachel, Rachel” for which he received an Oscar nomination for best picture. Nominated nine times for best actor, he finally took one home an Oscar for his performance as an aging pool shark in “The Color of Money”.

A caring and supremely generous man, he is the founder of “Newman’s Own”, a successful line of food products that has earned in excess of $100 million, every penny of which the philanthropic movie icon has donated to charity.

On September 26, 2008, Newman died at his longtime home in Westport, Connecticut, of complications arising from lung cancer.

No word yet on whether they will be screening Exodus.

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Thomas Friedman posed a question to his readers earlier this week in The New York Times:

What do America’s premier investor, Warren Buffett, and Iran’s toxic president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have in common? Answer: They’ve both made a bet about Israel’s future.

Yet again, Ahmadinejad announced that Israel would be wiped off the map. Friedman says that ironically, he heard this declaration while exiting Iscar’s headquarters in northern Israel - Iscar being Warren Buffett’s first and largest international investment.

The deal to buy 80% of Iscar closed a few days before Hezbollah started bombing northern Israel in July 2006, putting the company at serious risk. Friedman asked Iscar’s chairman, Eitan Wertheimer, what Buffett’s reaction was to the rockets landing in the vicinity of his new investment.

Buffett just brushed it off with a wave, recalled Wertheimer: “He said, ‘I’m not interested in the next quarter. I’m interested in the next 20 years.’ ”

Why is Buffett betting on Israel? Friedman lists some impressive details about Israel’s economy, including the fact that tiny Israel attracts the third-highest amount of venture capital after the US, coming in after China and before India. On the other hand, Friedman says that Iran has invented nothing of importance since the Islamic Revolution.

So who should you bet on? Friedman says he’d long Iran, and short Israel, since Iran’s might depends solely on dwindling sources of fossil fuels, while Israel’s strength is entirely dependent on a sustainable, endlessly renewable resource: its people’s brains.

So who do you bet on?

“I’m with Buffett,” Friedman ends off, “I’ll bet on the people who bet on their people - not the people who bet on dead dinosaurs.”

[Via Israel Newsletter]