The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!

Katie Halper:

Brigitte Bardot Fine: Top 5 Bardotisms That Got Hot Sex Symbol In Hot Water

Obama Pound: In Historic Moment, White People Exposed To Fist Bump For First Time

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Nicole Hughes:

Get a Job: Top 10 Guides to Finding the Perfect Eco Career

Schwarzenegger Declares Drought in California

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Andy Kondrat:

Barcelona Fines Citizens for Using Drinking Water in Pools and Gardens

Coal Power Plants Waste Two-Thirds of Energy Input

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Jon Popham:

Megabus Expanding to the East Coast

Egyptian Blogger Freed from Prison

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Giulia Rozzi:

Diamonds In The Rough: A Ugandan Hip Hop Revolution

Cluster Bomb Ban

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Gina Telaroli:

Interview with Nina Davenport, Director of Operation Filmmaker

KidZui : Internet for Kids (and Those Young at Heart)

indieWire has a great interview up with the director of the new documentary Operation Filmmaker. The film follows the story of a young Iraqi man who goes on MTV to express his desire to be a filmmaker and by chance actor and director Liev Schreiber saw his piece on MTV and had the young man come to work on his film Everything is Illuminated.

The results provide an interesting case study in cultural adjustment and creates an interesting dialogue about Western involvement/aid, as director Nina Davenport soon found out:

Please discuss how the idea for “Operation Filmmaker” came about.

David Schisgall, who made the MTV “True Life” piece that led to the story of Operation Filmmaker, is a friend from college. When Liev Schreiber saw David’s episode (”True Life: I’m Living in Iraq”) on MTV, he contacted David and proposed the idea of getting Muthana out of Iraq and bringing him to Prague to intern on the set of Everything is Illuminated-which Liev was slated to direct.

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