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'Eyes Wide Shut' actress: I came out as a conservative in Hollywood. [TR]
Fox News ^ | 9/1/17 | Julienne Davis

Posted on 09/01/2017 2:24:39 PM PDT by EdnaMode

About a year ago I made one of the more risky decisions of my life – one that I knew could hurt my career as an actress. I decided to come out of the conservative closet and admit to my peers that I was a conservative in Hollywood.

Yes, hard as it is for some to believe, not everyone in the entertainment industry on the Left Coast is a left-winger.

An acquaintance had asked me to write for a right-of-center political magazine. I realized I would be outing myself by doing it, but I ended up writing a few dozen articles with a right-leaning libertarian slant that were well received.

Sadly, the magazine closed and I was faced with two options.

Option 1: I could start apologizing to all my Hollywood liberal friends and associates who’d been shocked by my writing and tell them: “I didn’t really mean it … it was a paid gig and I was simply doing it for the work.”

Option 2: I could have the courage of my convictions and continue down the conservative path.

The first option may have brought me liberal forgiveness. Let’s be honest, many of us in Hollywood “whore” ourselves out for work, a pay check and another credit for our resumes.

But I knew if I took Option 1 that I would have to never speak or post anything that even squeaked of conservatism again. I would have to nod and agree with all the constant comments and wild accusations against President Trump – “the racist,” “the misogynist,” “the one who is trying to destroy the world.” Sigh.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: blacklisted; conservative; conservatives; eyeswideshut; hollywood; intolerantliberals; juliennedavis; liberalfascism; liberalintolerance; whotheheckcares
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To: Tax-chick

That movie was made around the end of the century.

More likely to see male nudity (rear or even frontal) than a bare breast in a movie these days.


21 posted on 09/01/2017 3:48:09 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Oh, I’d never have known. Blech. Have producers decided their teenaged-boy audience wants to see men’s tuchuses?


22 posted on 09/01/2017 3:51:40 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Defensive weapons are not 'provocative' unless you're an aggressor." ~Gen. Mattis)
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To: Tax-chick

Obviously Your Not a Kubrick fan.


23 posted on 09/01/2017 4:43:43 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Eyes Wide Shut...
Kubricks last film.


24 posted on 09/01/2017 4:47:39 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Tax-chick

Better than Ishtar.


25 posted on 09/01/2017 4:49:23 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tax-chick

She’s had other parts

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0204924/


26 posted on 09/01/2017 5:21:05 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: SMGFan

Jenna Jameson posts some comments more cogent than many of the ostensibly serious writers.

(I am also a fan of SMG. I think her biggest mistake - or her agent’s - was not in pursuing light-hearted comedy, versus heavy-handed drama. Some of her humorous bits on BtVS were also some of her best: “Beer. Foamy.” “Also, I think you’re drunk.” “I’m going to marry Bob Dole and move to Guam.”)


27 posted on 09/01/2017 5:40:50 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: SMGFan

(Oh, and: “Darn... It was my turn to make bundt cake.”)


28 posted on 09/01/2017 5:44:12 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: SMGFan

SMG...

always thought it was a weapon!


29 posted on 09/01/2017 7:07:46 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

IMHO “Eyes Wide Shut” was a very haunting and mysterious film - and holds the record for the longest production time (over a year). Portrays a secretive Illuminati-type conspiracy that the Cruise character stumbles upon while on a late-hour rambling in NYC. Strangely, Kubrick died unexpectedly shortly after the final wrapping of the film.


30 posted on 09/01/2017 9:24:21 PM PDT by tjd1454
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To: Tax-chick

I think I read that EWS was Kubrick’s best film for box office.


31 posted on 09/01/2017 9:26:24 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

fwiw — “Eyes Wide Shut” is (imho) a very good film. What you say of Cruise is true, but he is perfectly cast here — the role is that of a prideful, vainglorious, annoying fool. It’s a haunting film right up there with Kubrick’s best work.

my two cents


32 posted on 09/01/2017 11:23:35 PM PDT by GCFADG (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have mercy on me, the sinner.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Eyes Wide Shut was an expose of the occultism practiced by the new world order, Bohemian Grove elitists.


33 posted on 09/02/2017 4:04:16 AM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: EdnaMode
What tolerant “friends” she had in Hollywood.

They are as worthy of being called friends as KKKers are of being called Christian.

34 posted on 09/04/2017 9:29:19 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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