Posted on 04/03/2006 9:14:28 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
Movie-maker OLIVER STONE has blasted media groups who "slander" celebrities for their political comments - because intelligent stars have every right to question their leaders. The Vietnam veteran, who is a fierce opponent of the US leadership, is appalled every time a celebrity is rudely mocked for making his or her thoughts about PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH and the war in Iraq public, and he urges journalists to be more supportive. The NATURAL BORN KILLERS director says, "We're Hollywood wackos and all that stuff, left-wing... (It's) an easy and facile dismissal. "I'm still a citizen, I've served my country as a veteran, I've had many jobs before the film business. I know something of life, having lived to this age. "We have a right to speak and every time we speak: 'You're an actor, a showbusiness director,' we're making it up! "This is not a way of dealing with people. This is slander."
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Oh Oliver... it's not your right to speak that's an issue... apparently it's OUR right to speak that's bothering you.
Why should the nightly news give a rat's ass about the political views of celebrities? They aren't famous for their minds.
They are paid to spout lines written for them by someone else and to look pretty. If they want to be taken seriously in politics, they should run as politicians.
I would really like to see Entertainment Tonight lead off each show with Saddam Hussein's take on Basic Instinct 2, and why it was a disaster, or Tony Blair slamming Benchwarmers.
And Jane Fonda was an (useful) idiot for saying that Americans should all submit to Communism, that really we would all be so much happier if only we would try it.
Dear Oliver Stone and other Hollywood Preening Pimping Narcissists:
If and when I decide that months and months of effort on your behalf are worth my spending 9 dollars to see, I will watch your prancing on a movie screen. If I find you not suitably entertaining, I will not watch any more of your attempts at entertainment, and will instead do somethign more useful, like post on FreeRepublic.com
Should you find yourself a dollar richer because I decided to witness your antics for an evening, count yourself blessed. I am in no way obligated to pay to be entertanined by the likes of you, and certainly do not consider your viewpoints relevant in the least. If I wanted your political opinions, I would have asked for them; and I certainly have not.
If you do insist on making your America-hating views known to me, I will take special delight in not spending one red cent to see your life's best work. If I think you appear in a production of interest to me, I will procur a copy of your efforts on the used market, so as to deny you any enurement whatsoever.
When I feel you are sufficiently contrite, I might spend a few dollars on you.
It's BUSH's fault that we say stupid--wait--
OK. It's BUSH's fault that people think we're not so smart because...because...
Because BUSH is stupid! Yeah!
It just writes itself, doesn't it? ;^) Did Stone and the director of Basic Instinct 2 decide to write competing whinefests? What a bunch of babies. They dish it out, but they surely can't take it.
"Movie stars, is there anything they don't know?" - Homer Simpson
Yet another conspiracy theory by the paranoid Stone...Intelligent stars?????
Yeah, right!
"Stars" and washed up Movie Producers embarrass themselves. We point out their errors and embarrassing antics in politics, morals, drug addiction, alcoholism, nutty religious beliefs, wife swapping, husband swapping, criminal convictions, STD's, mental illnesses.....What else have the "little people" to do?
What is Basic Instinct 2?
Well, that is what a lot of people are asking. LOL
It is the sequel to Basic Instinct, the steamy thriller that "catapaulted" Sharon Stone to fame in the early 90's. She reprises her role, but the critics have been extremely unkind to it--and her, and the box office was dismal this opening weekend as well. The director, of course, blames the puritanical regime of George W. Bush for it's failure. That Christians have an aversion to sex (that's LOL funny), and that there is a ban on erotic movies in the US. Coulda fooled me. I thought you could sit in your house and access porn 24/7 with a computer and internet connection.
Could it be bad acting and producing?
Naaaahhhhh. Ya think? ;^)
Nope, gotta be those right wing nutjobs. The movies coming out of Hollywood are wonnnnnderrrfullll. **dripping with sarcasm**
""We have a right to speak... "
We have a right to rebuke their opinions and their movies too.
Poor babies!
My view of Stone is that he is a marginally talented anti-American lunatic...full stop. It's like if you gave money to make films to the rambling drunk at the end of the bar. Or the deranged psycho you accidentally bump into on the street.
And which Hollywood insiders have been succesful in politics?
Ronald Reagan (R)
Fred Grandy (R)
Fred Thompson (R)
Sonny Bono (R)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (R)
Hmm, seems all the "intelligent" actors have been heard.
I though "NATURAL BORN KILLERS" was terrible! Had about as much content as "RESEVOUR DOGS"
Why don't these jackasses get it-YES, you have a right to have your opinion and voice your opinion. You do NOT have a right to have your opinion be respected or agreed with.
I love it. They can call George Bush and conservative politicians monsters, nazis, fascist and every other slanderous word in the dictionary. But when we say one thing about them, they cry like little babies. They don't even get the irony!
It isn't just them. I am continually amazed at how many people think a right to free speech entitles them to an uncritical audience.
Still, I wish actors would keep their politics quiet. I go to movies to be immersed in a different world. I can't believe in the CHARACTER an actor is supposed to be playing when I am remembering all the ACTOR'S politics that I disagree with. I used to enjoy movies with Janeane Garofolo, Alec Baldwin, George Clooney -- until the 2004 election when they made such public asses of themselves. Now I skip their films.
What other businessman would go out of his way to actively piss off half his potential customers ? Stone should think about that and re-evaluate that "intelligent stars" comment.
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