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Well, I just wanted to clarify... because, early on, we got a little ahead of ourselves thinking he was a Republican when he accepted that volunteer council position for President Bush. While I think he is one of the good guys in Hollywood, participating in USO and other activities to support our troops and positively represents America when he talks (he's not one of the blame America crowd that I've heard).... he also appeared in a Kerry campaign appearance or two. I didn't want you to get bit in the rear if he ends up running for office as a Democrat someday. He might. ;~D

I second Hair - Sean is about as solid a family man as you could find in Hollywood, but he let us FReeper fans down when after FOTR came out (which was right in the wake 9-11), Astin beat as much a hasty retreat as the other hobbits in denying that LOTR was about winning a war (to put it simply).

All of the actors/directors/writers in that film had their own political agendas to project onto Tolkien's work (some of which he may have quasi-agreed with) but none of them wanted to be aligned with a group of people saying it was a just thing to stand up to the terrorists. Oh no. Can't use the book/film to lead people to THAT conclusion.

Which is one of the reasons why Mortensson became so involved with MoveOne.org/ANSWER....the jerk.