Jason Scott Lee American men in Hollywood. Lee played Eddie in the 2007 sports comedy film "Balls of Fury", in his first theatrical release film since 2002. Lee performed as The King of Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The King and I" in a production at the London Palladium in 2000 opposite Elaine Paige. Lee made his operatic debut in the non-singing role of Pasha Selim in Hawaii Opera Theatre's production of Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" at the Blaisdell Concert Hall in Honolulu in February 2009. Lee was also to perform as The King of Siam in the 2014 Opera
Persian Letters texts and renewed perspectives. Particularly important were the extensively annotated edition by Paul Vernière and the research of Robert Shackleton on Muslim chronology; also studies by Roger Laufer, Pauline Kra and Roger Mercier, which put new focus on the work’s unity and integrated the seraglio into its overall meaning. Others who have followed have looked into the ramifications of epistolary form, the structure and meaning of the seraglio, Usbek’s contradictions. Beginning about 1970 it is religion (Kra) and especially politics (Ehrard, Goulemot, Benrekassa) which predominate in studies on "Lettres persanes", with a progressive return to the role of the seraglio