(woman and newsha speaking): (man and newsha speaking): (woman 2 speaking): (newsha speaking): (man 2and erdbrink speaking): (erdbrink and newsha speaking): (laughing) ♪ in >> erdbr so, this is how i spend my days. sometimes, after lunch, i go out. as a foreigner, you're instantly proached by friendly people. iranians are always happy to chat. about whatever subject. >> erdbrink: (woman and erdbrink speaking): >> erdbrink: yes, yes! (erdbrink and woman king): in >> erd friendly... (man and ebrink speaking): (erdbrink speaking): (speaking local language): yes, i'm coming. it's very hard to get a word in here-- people come up to you and ask you all kinds of questions like, "what are you doing here? how much do you earn?" and "what do the americans think of iran?" aughing) but the reason i came this day b was to a cake. ♪ see this big box? i have some making up to do. (erdbrink and sommayeh spking): et sommayeh, my assistan for "the new york times." she moved into a new apartment and i should have dropped by ages ago. (e rdbrink speaking): (erdbrink speaking): >> erdbrink: divorced women

and newsha was in that bus.omen bus, of course, everybody got out first.d saw newsha walking by and then in my imagination, she oked up to me and we had, like, a moment. (laughin >> absolutely lie. (laughs) f m taking pictures and i saw there is a queueybe one kilometer of people, old people, young people, middle-aged. they're all waiting, and someone is doing moon daing. and it was thomas and he was signing-- he was giving signature as if he's michaels jackson and wadoing moon dancing. >> erdbrink: well, what happened, that i figured these people, they haven't seen are ner since the revolution. and a young guy came up to me and said, "are you michaeln? jack and then i thought, okay, i can say, "no" or i can say, "yes." and i decided to say yes. so i said, "yes," and all the people started crowding around, and sayif you're michael jackson, do the moonwalk." so i was, like, doing the moonwalk. they started asking for my autograph. and then newsha came up to me and said, you know, "who are you and what are you doi

): (man and newsha speaking): (laughing) (woman and newsha speaking): (erdbrink and newsha speaking):laughing) (chanting): (erdbrink speaking): (taheri speaking): (chanting) >> erdbrink: the images of mr. big mouth caused a stir in iran. modern iranians felt he was a caricature. a disgrace for the country. and even his fellow religiousre militants unhappy with thehe way he put them spotlight. and there was another downside, according mr. taheri. (taheri speaking): so (erdbrink anayeh speaking): la (speaking locauage) ♪ is mr. taheri ght? did e first film show too little of the modern and carefree side of tehran?rh pes i should take my cue from state-owned press tv's sunnieprograms. >> typical iranian house, typical inian car. this is how it is. not! i'm about to show why. l-u-x-u-r-y, luxury. this is what we drive, a beautiful porsche. iran's second-largest active industry? the autobile industry. and everybody loves a xury automobile. t you're goingo buy this car? >> yes, in cash. >> in cash? >> yes. >> i love it. >> okay. cash, he's gonna buy it. i love iran. l >> erdbrin-x-u-r-y, lu