Producing a Hollywood flop

THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | Nov 4, 2004 | Stephanie Mansfield

[Time is now]

"Celebrity testimonials may help [sell] erectile-dysfunction products," Marty Kaplan, communications professor at the University of South Carolina, told Agence France-Presse, "but in politics, they're mainly eye candy for the media." Mr. Dowling agreed. "It didn't work," he said of the Democrats' star-studded support. Asked whether Mr. Affleck, who wasn't available for comment, would suffer any repercussions, Mr. Dowling laughed and alluded to the actor's latest box-office flop "Surviving Christmas." "Ben Affleck," the Hollywood journalist said, "has more career problems at the moment than his political beliefs."

[Time is now]

Couldn't say it any better about the morons on the left coast...

[SkyPilot]

Not only entertainers were said to be dispirited. The literary crowd in New York was crying into its Evian. "Sure, I feel terrible," said New Yorker editor David Remnick, whose published endorsement of Mr. Kerry was a first for the magazine. "There are a lot of long faces today."

It wasn't Evian, it was Vodka.

[sierrahome]

For many Hollywood types, Freedom of Speech means they speek and we listen. Not only did america not like what it heard but their shrill voices left our ears ringing.

[sierrahome]

Looks like I need to remember that spell check is my friend :-(

[Larry Lucido]

"There are a lot of long faces today."

Fortunately, the longest one didn't make it to the White House.

[Melinda]

Funny ! If only Hollywood would wake up to the fact that just because they are entertainers, that doesn't necessarily give them a bigger or more interesting voice than my cat with a ball of string.

[baseballmom]

Ditto. Just Shut up and Sing.:-)

[MizSterious]

I think one of the first, and worst, tactical errors was the Whoopi-fest early in the campaign. I'm sure there are others, but this particular event thoroughly disgusted a huge portion of America. We have some long-time Democrats here in this part of Oklahoma that voted for Bush because they were offended by that event among several others. However, I have to say that his anti-war stance--in the past and the present--probably played a greater role in his defeat.

[TheBigB]

*sniff, sniff*...aah, schadenfreude. :^)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"Ben Affleck," the Hollywood journalist said, "has more career problems at the moment than his political beliefs."

Among them being the fact that he looks just like Scott Peterson.

[cbkaty]

May I add.....I see in the Houston Comical....that Cher is playing Beaumont, Tx in year 3 of her nver-ending farewell tour.... GRIN......

[laotzu]

excerpts:
" For a rich and powerful demographic used to getting its way, Hollywood was downbeat yesterday as President Bush — more heinous than a mid-February release date to so many celebrities and other bold-faced names — made his gracious victory speech."

"It left many Kerry supporters reaching for their Prozac vials. "Mine is already empty," joked a high-level publicist who counts A-list celebrities as his clients. "Everyone's so down."

Who knew "moral values" voters could triumph over production values?

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