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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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.
Oh, I’d never have known. Blech. Have producers decided their teenaged-boy audience wants to see men’s tuchuses?
Obviously Your Not a Kubrick fan.
Eyes Wide Shut...
Kubricks last film.
Better than Ishtar.
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.”)
(Oh, and: “Darn... It was my turn to make bundt cake.”)
SMG...
always thought it was a weapon!
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.
I think I read that EWS was Kubrick’s best film for box office.
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
Eyes Wide Shut was an expose of the occultism practiced by the new world order, Bohemian Grove elitists.
They are as worthy of being called friends as KKKers are of being called Christian.
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