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James Caan Refuses to Be the Typical 'Hollywood Liberal'
FoxNews ^ | 8/11/10 | Hollie McKay

Posted on 08/11/2010 7:21:43 AM PDT by MissTed

Veteran actor James Caan let people in on a little secret last week. After 46 successful years among Hollywood’s most outspoken liberal stars, he’s speaking up about breaking the mold.

“I'm an ultra conservative,” he said at Moet & Chandon’s 6th Annual Hollyshorts Film Festival Opening Night Celebration in Los Angeles.

“I'm not a G** damn Hollywood liberal, I'm not,” he said, adding he only watches Fox News.

Caan, who was at the event promoting his involvement with the online platform Openfilm.com, also added that he doesn’t think Hollywood actors need to comment on every single political issue. When Pop Tarts questioned him on California courts deeming Proposition 8, which bans same sex marriage, “unconstitutional,” he preferred to keep his lips sealed.

"I don't want to comment on that. I'll let those other geniuses do that – all those actors who like to find a stage to push their agendas,” he said. “They don't have political science degrees... I certainly don't. I'll leave it to Sean Penn or Barbara Streisand to comment on that."

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
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Good man!
1 posted on 08/11/2010 7:21:44 AM PDT by MissTed
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To: MissTed

I already liked him before, and now I like him even better.


2 posted on 08/11/2010 7:23:33 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: MissTed
Bada_Bing!....
3 posted on 08/11/2010 7:23:53 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: MissTed

I think his acting style where he speaks so softly you can hardly hear him is annoying. Ok once it was cute but he keeps doing it.


4 posted on 08/11/2010 7:25:20 AM PDT by DManA
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To: MissTed

A piece of advice, James. Stay away from Hollywood toll plazas!


5 posted on 08/11/2010 7:26:14 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Duty is ours; consequences are God's." Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! :)
6 posted on 08/11/2010 7:26:44 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: MissTed

Wow! A Hollywood actor with class!
Like Halley’s comet,you see one every 70-something years.


7 posted on 08/11/2010 7:28:05 AM PDT by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: RexBeach
Stay away from Hollywood toll plazas!

New York ones, too.

8 posted on 08/11/2010 7:28:12 AM PDT by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: MissTed
Santino, you always were a hot head. You think you got hit bad at that toll booth, wait until the Hollywood left lets loose on you!!!


9 posted on 08/11/2010 7:28:24 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Is anybody else imagining that shirt front with brains all over it?


10 posted on 08/11/2010 7:28:48 AM PDT by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: pnh102

He was great in THIEF


11 posted on 08/11/2010 7:28:54 AM PDT by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: TexasRepublic

I liked him before and couldn’t exactly say why. Maybe it was the feeling that he was a real man and not a pretend man. This coming out confirms it.


12 posted on 08/11/2010 7:29:03 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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Still, it gets old when now that certain Hollywierdos get long in the tooth then they suddenly “see the light” and come out of the closet as really being conservatives all along.

I far as I’m concerned it’s nothing more than realizing that nobody watches them anymore and the spotlight is on the so-called “hot movie stars”.

This way the new found Hollywood conservatives can regain some following with conservative movie fans.


13 posted on 08/11/2010 7:30:11 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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“They don't have political science degrees... “

Heck ...Most of the loudmouth Hollywood rif-raf are former parking valets or were manicurists before making films; they were/are drug addicts, drunks, spouse abusers, sex addicts, etc. .... THAT'S how ‘clever’ they are!! Yup...we sure need advice on politics from THEM!!

14 posted on 08/11/2010 7:31:50 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What luck for rulers that men do not think." Adolph Hitler)
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To: Deb

James Caan forever; Ed Harris never. There has to be a good story or two about Mr. Caan if he is an ‘ultra-conservative’.


15 posted on 08/11/2010 7:32:57 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (Obama is a man-caused disaster..........)
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To: OregonRancher

He was best in “Way of the Gun” and “A Bridge Too Far”


16 posted on 08/11/2010 7:33:28 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists". (Die Ritter der Kokosnuss))
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To: TexasRepublic

I liked him in Misery


17 posted on 08/11/2010 7:37:52 AM PDT by gattaca (Great things can be accomplished if you don't care who gets the credit. Ronald Reagan)
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To: TexasRepublic

I like him more too,I just hope he knows that he won’t be receiving the normal amount of scripts to read from here on!


18 posted on 08/11/2010 7:39:07 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: MissTed
Other than the obvious movies .. The Godfather, A Bridge Too Far .. I particularly liked him in the role of "Mississippi" in El Dorado with John Wayne and Robert Mitchum.


19 posted on 08/11/2010 7:39:07 AM PDT by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: MissTed

He claims he´s conservative, but clams-up on one of the most significant social issues of the day. Hmmm....


20 posted on 08/11/2010 7:40:14 AM PDT by onedoug
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