3 reasons:
1. Miramax--Backers of Fakenhype 9/11
2. Richard Gere "Artists For The U.N." Member
"The horrendous energy that we’re all feeling, and the possibility of turning it into more violence, and revenge, we can stop that. We can take that energy and turn it into something else. We can turn it into compassion, and to love, and to understanding."
"That’s apparently unpopular right now, but that’s alright."
Richard Gere addresses the crowd at concert for N.Y. firefighters and police
"Bush's plans for war are a bizarre bad dream. There doesn't appear to be any sort of basis for any of this. I have a feeling something hidden is at work here that will someday see the light of day."
Richard Gere criticises Bush in anti-war attack
Story filed: 14:00 Monday 10th February 2003
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_749299.html
The Power of Love Richard Gere Says Even Terrorists Deserve Compassion
"If you can see them [the terrorists] as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better."
But, he said, we must also think about "the terrorists who are creating such horrible future lives for themselves because of the negativity of this karma. If you see it from a much wider point of view, we're all in this together. We're all intimately interconnected in all of these actions."
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
By David Blaustein
ABC News
http://www.tibet.ca/wtnarchive/2001/10/10_1.html
"I keep asking myself where all this personal enmity between George Bush and Saddam Hussein comes from. It's like the story of Captain Ahab and the great white whale from Moby Dick." Gere, a Buddhist, added: "We have to say 'stop', there's no reason for a war. At the moment Hussein is not threatening anybody. "It'd be different if he was staring somebody down with a loaded gun in his hand. But there doesn't seem to be any indications whatsoever that this man poses an immediate threat to anybody. "America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people. "If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people."
Ananova Story filed: 14:00 Monday 10th February 2003
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_749299.html
3. Susan Sarandon "Artists For The U.N." Member
QUOTE
"We stand a chance of getting a president [G. W. Bush] who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States."
and
At an anti-war rally, Sarandon condemned Bush for having "hijacked our losses and our fears." She told the adoring crowd that terrorism could not be fought with violence. As the crowd yelled in approval, Sarandon proclaimed, "Let us hate war in all its forms, whether the weapon used is a missile or an airplane." Demonstrators chanted in lilting lockstep: "George Bush, you can't hide. We charge you with genocide."
Do these people deserve our entertainment dollars?
Do these people deserve our entertainment dollars?
If you give such a test to every entertainer and every entertainment company, there's every chance you face a future without very many movies, little music and virtually no art.
Additionally, it's a pretty sure bet that the actors have already been paid, the studio has already been paid and the only people waiting for a pay check from box office receipts are distributors and a few bankers.