I have a special relationship with Idi Amin.

When I was in law school, I appointed myself the Arts Editor (a post that hadn’t existed before, to the best of my recollection) of our student newspaper, The Gavel.

It allowed me free entry to Boston’s theaters and events. Somewhat guiltily, I decided to review films and report on functions that had a legal connection. Among other things, I reviewed Woody’s Allen’s “The Front” (the one in which a poignant Zero Mostel playing a HUAC beleaguered comedian, sails out of a hotel window), attended a Free Speech conference and fundraiser for porn star, Harry Reems (real name Herbert John Streicher) and wrote about “Idi Amin Dada”, a documentary that exposed the corpulent, despotic, Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, who reportedly was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of his compatriots.

The film opened my eyes to real time tyrants living in the world thirty years after the end........

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