There were some questions earlier in the week as to whether or not Farrow would be allowed to host the Foreign Correspondents' Club lunch in Hong Kong as the torch relayed through the city on Friday. The torch's presence in Hong Kong was particularly sensitive because it appeared for the first time on Chinese soil. The lingering questions of Hong Kong autonomy, which reverted to Chinese rule in 1997, caused anxiety in Beijing.

The Chinese government, which regards the Olympics as their official-unofficial superpower coming out party, is unnerved by Ms. Farrow's campaign and, more specifically, its present proximity to their sphere of influence. At a press conference on Tuesday, China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said, according to the Xinhua News Agency, "I think Mia Farrow should deepen her knowledge and understanding of China's active and constructive role in handling the Darfur issue."

Mia Farrow's talk, which was entitled, ''Darfur and the Olympics," went off without a hitch in Hong Kong. In her remarks Farrow took the current administration to task, as well as Britain, China and the United Nations Security Council, saying, according to Bloomberg, ''Nations with capable armies should offer African nations training, logistical support and helicopters.'' Further, Farrow took on the 19 major corporate Olympic sponsors. According to AFP, Dream For Darfur "flunked" 16 of the 19 sponsors - including Visa, Coke and Swatch -- in a 73-page Olympic Corporate Sponsor Darfur Report Card. "History will note their silence ... I'm disgusted. Adidas, Kodak and McDonald's, by contrast, drew praise for urging the United Nations Security Council to enforce Resolution 1769, which authorized in 2007 a UN-African Union hybrid operation will be known as UNAMID to quell the violence in Darfur.

Farrow has made a career of taking on the powerful. Barely into her 20s, Farrow refused to co-star with her then-husband Frank Sinatra in The Detective, precipitating divorce papers being served on the set of 1968's Rosemary's Baby. There was the spectacular break-up with Woody Allen. And, most recently, Farrow shamed the most powerful man in Hollywood, Steven Spielberg, in the pages of The Wall Street Journal, into ending his role as artistic advisor for the Beijing Olympics. The stakes with China, however, are infinitely higher than the gamesmanship along the Hollywood food chain.