Posted on 01/21/2005 5:19:46 PM PST by ambrose
Dennis Hopper should be hopping mad, some Hollywood actors said this week.
Hopper, who organized The Creative Coalition's Ball after the Ball Thursday night as part of the activities surrounding President Bush's inauguration, apparently got a surprise phone call from the Presidential Inaugural Committee Wednesday night - telling him not to come to his own party.
"I feel terrible that the White House inaugural committee that invited Dennis decided to disinvite him," "Sopranos" actor Joe Pantoliano told reporters at the event, where the entertainment - aside from mingling with some of Tinseltown's stars - was singer Macy Gray.
Hopper reportedly was not given an explanation for the insult. A call to the PIC had not been returned by press time.
Thursday's ball at the Reagan Building in Washington featured names such as Pantoliano - the group's co-director - along with actor and director Tony Goldwyn, Mario Van Peebles, Joe Piscopo, Matthew Modine and other actors. Various politicos like Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., also attended.
But many were sorry about the absence of Hopper, who was the organizer and chair of the event and who personally wrote letters to and called the evening's headliners to invite them.
"I was very disappointed. I was told he was all of a sudden disinvited by the Inaugural Committee ... but he's with us in spirit," Goldwyn, who played the dark character Carl Bruner in the 1990 smash-hit "Ghost," and more recently co-starred in "The Last Samurai," told reporters on the red carpet Thursday.
Hopper, a Hollywood icon and long-time actor, director and producer who has starred in films such as "Speed," "Easy Rider" and "Apocalypse Now," is a hard-core supporter of Bush, although his wife did partake in fund-raising activities for Sen. John Kerry, Bush's Democratic challenger in the 2004 presidential election.
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Hey, I posted #96 before I read that!....
At the end of the day, it's just another attempt to trash our President. I guess they haven't figured out yet that we have learned to see through the garbage they put out there.
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. If it's pulled off some leftwing or Hollywood rumour web site I'd seriously doubt it's true. Hopper has openly supported Bush, I can't see why he would give a donation to Kerry.
Also want to remind everyone he played the son in the movie GIANT. The sensitive son who wants to be a Dr. and marries the Mexican woman.
Some beaches. This is where I part with the priggish.
>>First, there is no evidence Joseph Farah of World Net Daily or Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family had anything whatsoever to do with this Dennis Hopper inaugural matter.<<
We don't need no stinkin' facts!
LOL
Loved that movie, probably have seen it at least 5 times.
but his dad was a homosexual
;>)
Mom was ravishing though.
You are correct. The Inaugural Committee only oversaw the officially sanctioned balls. This was not one of them, as far as I know. Just as the Inaugural Committee didn't have input on the Freeper Ball, it didn't have input on the one thrown by the Creative Coalition.
This story is bogus.
Dang, all I have is the regular Google.
Do I have to pay for the guick upgrade?
wow first kid rock now dennis hopper.Why if the republicans keep this up every single actor, actress,singer and film producer in hollywood will bust thier hump every day for a year in 2008 to make sure the republicans win the next election becasue they know thier loyalty in the face of the opposition of everyone in thier industry will be duly noted and rewarded by the repubs.This is the best strategy ive ever heard about and kudos to everyone of these marketing albert einstiens for finally putting to rest the myth that the republicans are being held hostage by a bunch of gap toothed backwoods southern baptist evangelicals. WAY TO GO PREZ BOO YA !!!!!!
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I don't know...but here is the most of the article from Jan. 2004, if you want to investigate their site:
Elite Fundraisers Deliver "Bundles" of Donations to Democratic
Candidates Who Abandoned the Public Financing System.
WhiteHouseForSale.org Launches Searchable Database with Information
About 32 Dean Bundlers and 119 Kerry Backers; Bush Names 42 New Rangers
and Pioneers
WASHINGTON, D.C. - While not approaching the scope of President Bush's unparalleled fundraising operations, the presidential campaigns of Howard Dean and John Kerry haven't been shy about reaching out to their
own elite networks of big money bundlers to help finance their
campaigns, according to an analysis by Public Citizen.
WhiteHouseForSale.org, a Web site created by Public Citizen to track
contributors to Bush's 2004 re-election campaign, has begun monitoring the fundraising activities of Dean and Kerry because they are the only other candidates who have followed Bush in opting out of the
presidential public financing system.
In addition to keeping a running
tally of their respective fundraising totals, Public Citizen today
unveiled its searchable database of Dean and Kerry bundlers, their home
states, employers and occupations. Both it and the Bush database are
available at WhiteHouseforSale.org.
Official totals won't be filed with the Federal Election Commission
(FEC) until the end of January, but the Dean campaign has reported
raising $41 million in 2003. The Kerry campaign brought in nearly $29
million last year, including $6.4 million the senator loaned to his
campaign after taking out a mortgage on his home.
A candidate who accepts public financing can raise and spend no more than $45 million before next summer's Democratic Convention in Boston.
Although Dean has raised $12 million more than Kerry, the Massachusetts
senator has relied on four times the number of bundlers, those financial
backers who collect contributions up to the limit of $2,000 from others.
So far, the Dean campaign has released the names of 14 individuals who
have raised at least $100,000; another 18 individuals have bundled at
least $50,000 for the Vermont governor. The Kerry campaign has
identified 32 fundraisers who have brought in at least $100,000; another
87 rainmakers have collected at least $50,000.
"We wish that all the presidential candidates would stay within the
public financing system, but President Bush's outrageous money machine
places an extreme handicap on candidates who want to wage a fair fight," said Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook. "The McCain-Feingold law removed hundreds of millions in soft money from the political system,
but wealthy special interests are still able to purchase influence with
politicians by serving as money brokers who collect $2,000 checks from
their own business and personal networks and forward them to the
candidates."
Kerry's $50,000 Hollywood supporters include actor Dennis Hopper,
director William Friedkin, Viacom Entertainment Chairman Jonathan
Dolgen, Paramount Studios chief Sherry Lansing, CBS Entertainment head
Nancy Tellem and three top executives at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
Kerry's Massachusetts fundraisers include longtime backers Alan
Solomont, the former finance chairman of the Democratic National
Committee (DNC); Jonathan Lavine, managing director of Bain Capital; and
the senator's brother Cameron Kerry, an attorney at Mintz Levin - the
firm that ranks as Kerry's all-time biggest donor.
...Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. For more information, please visit
http://www.whitehouseforsale.org.
Yeah, he was great in that, wasn't he? I believe you were supposed to scared of him. One of the, uh, best black (or blue) genre movies I've ever seen. Right up there with Mickey Rourke in "Angelheart" or "Barfly".
There's a movie called "Spreading Ground", by far not Hopper's best, but on a wintery nite in the mountains, it does entertain.
FMCDH(BITS)
Thanks, but that still doesn't answer my question as to why the donation doesn't show up at opensecrets.org.
Wouldn't you really rather have a guick?
(Freepers too young to remember that advertising jingle can just ignore this post.)
The source I got it from was Public Interest at:
http://www.whitehouseforsale.org
They mention that the tally of donations aren't even required to the end of January. Personally, I don't really care...I just never thought of Hopper as a conservative.
Dennis Hopper was a well-established charcter actor before EASY RIDER. He had roles in TRUE GRIT, THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER, and GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL for example. He's continued working, usually playing the whacko, for forty years. I have no idea of his politics, but something is missing from this story.
According to them, the final numbers for donations arent required to the end of January. I just can't see why someone would lie about Hopper's donation...it's not exactly a big-deal.
Uh uh. Even my 71 year old dad think guicks are for old farts.
I don't know what the exact reason of the disinvite is but if it is due to religious groups then they are definitely overplaying their hand.
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