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Dennis Hopper Dissed at Presidential Party
Fox ^ | 1/21

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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KEYWORDS: creativecoalition; dennishopper; hollywoodright; joepiscopo; mariovanpeebles; matthewmodine; snub; w2
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To: proust
And if we're still winning the national elections, as we have the last 6 in a row, the problem is????

Read the rest of my post.

221 posted on 01/21/2005 9:23:38 PM PST by JeffAtlanta
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To: Clemenza

He was probably photographed with Kid Rock.....


222 posted on 01/21/2005 9:24:31 PM PST by Tempest (Click on my name for a long list of press contacts)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Gee yeah... not only did he claim to be one he even planned a party for the President in order to complete his disguise....


223 posted on 01/21/2005 9:28:12 PM PST by Tempest (Click on my name for a long list of press contacts)
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To: jwalsh07
This sentence is almost a direct quote from the lefts spin on Dobson.

That was a quote from the producer of the video, Nile Rodgers. And what does the Left have to do with any of this?

224 posted on 01/21/2005 9:32:53 PM PST by JeffAtlanta
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To: jwalsh07
Caught bits and pieces of this on O'Reilly tonight.

Do you have a website about this video that I can pass along to my friends and family (some of which are teachers), so I can inform them of this "educational" thing potentially being put out their to the children.

Thanks!
225 posted on 01/21/2005 9:34:26 PM PST by LisaMalia (hmmmmmmm)
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To: ambrose

Who's Joe Pantoliano trying to fool. My wife and I used to watch his show "The Handler". It got canceled and I felt bad for him until I read some horrible comments he has made about The President. Here he is trying to sound all innocent.


226 posted on 01/21/2005 9:35:57 PM PST by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: nmh

Well, according to the article he organized the party. Normally, the host is invited to his/her own party.


227 posted on 01/21/2005 9:38:27 PM PST by Trippin
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To: Hildy

One source said Hopper canceled his trip to Washington when he was "uninvited" from the official presidential party after "religious groups complained about his [sketchy] history."

The GOP's Big Tent is getting smaller and smaller since the election. Intolerant hypocrits are starting to pi$$ me off.


228 posted on 01/21/2005 9:40:40 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Grateful Heart Tour 2005)
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To: cwb

Would you mind giving me a link that confirms your assertions.


230 posted on 01/21/2005 9:48:26 PM PST by Tempest (Click on my name for a long list of press contacts)
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To: Hildy
One finds Hopper in just about every western TV show from the 1950's. Rawhide, Maverick, Sugarfoot, and the like. Hopper is in the old mold actor that can really ride a horse without his arms flapping like a chicken running from a dog.
231 posted on 01/21/2005 9:48:46 PM PST by vetvetdoug (In memory of T/Sgt. Secundino "Dean" Baldonado, Jarales, NM-KIA Bien Hoa AFB, RVN 1965)
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To: Trippin
If this article is correct .... OOOPS, that is VERY RUDE!!!

That's inexcusable.
232 posted on 01/21/2005 9:49:00 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: JeffAtlanta
That was a quote from the producer of the video, Nile Rodgers. And what does the Left have to do with any of this?

Same ole, same ole. The left is attempting to make a Christian the fool by obfuscation, lies and distortion.

As for Niles Rodgers I don't know his politics so I can't comment on his motivations but I can comment on the accuracy of his quote. It is BS.

233 posted on 01/21/2005 9:50:36 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Liberty Valance
A grown man cancelled his trip to a private party because of an alleged disinvite to an offical function and you're pissed off at some vague "intolerant hypocrites"?

Sounds pretty intolerant to me.

234 posted on 01/21/2005 9:52:45 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Kirkwood
I see it too and it annoys the crap out of me. As a Christian myself I've joined the opposing faction in order to stop the zealotry. Some of the self-righteous posturing that goes on around here is very, very far from being Christlike.

So it has become necessary to rebuke my brothers and sisters.
235 posted on 01/21/2005 9:54:13 PM PST by Tempest (Click on my name for a long list of press contacts)
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To: jwalsh07

Just my opinion.


236 posted on 01/21/2005 9:58:50 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Grateful Heart Tour 2005)
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To: Liberty Valance

OK.


237 posted on 01/21/2005 9:59:49 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: tang-soo

Yeah, Pantoliano hates Bush. He was at anti-war rallies and stuff. Nogoodnik.


238 posted on 01/21/2005 10:00:10 PM PST by motexva
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To: cwb; Trippin; HAL9000; RedWhiteBlue

CWB,

I'm not quite sure if your just uninformed or knowingly lying but your characterization of Hopper is completely false and misleading.

From your own source. If one were to do a searc for Hopper you would realize that Dennis Hopper is a staunch Republican, but it's his wife that is a Democrat.

His Kerry fundraising was listed as a n effort done on behalf of his wife.

Geesh:

http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/blog/page.cfm?PageID=610

The zealots need to get off of their high horse and find out if this story is true or not and stop trying to slander Mr Hopper in order to cover their own butts.


239 posted on 01/21/2005 10:05:16 PM PST by Tempest (Click on my name for a long list of press contacts)
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To: Tempest
I found more details in a Washington Post article which quotes Hopper as saying -

"We were dismayed this week when my invitation to participate in the 'Celebration of Freedom' event . . . was withdrawn by the Presidential Inaugural Committee"

"However, ... I would still like to express my support for President George Bush and our next four years."


240 posted on 01/21/2005 10:12:32 PM PST by HAL9000 (Spreading terrorist beheading propaganda videos is an Act of Treason!)
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