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"Shut Up, and ACT!" Hollywood conservatives plan "Rally for Responsibility" at Academy Awards (2/27)
thirdplanet.tv ^ | February 19, 2005 | Jeffers Dodge, Ted Hayes, RonDog

Posted on 02/19/2005 7:06:36 AM PST by RonDog

Let Hollywood know that with Freedom of Speech comes RESPONSIBILITY.



Outside the 77th annual
ACADEMY AWARDS
in Hollywood, California



February 27, 2005 - 12 noon
Corner Hollywood and Whitley
3 blocks east of Highland
.

-RETURN HOLLYWOOD TO AMERICA-
-TAKE BACK HOLLYWOOD-




We need some volunteers to show up and hang with Ted Hayes and Ron Smith
at the corner of Hollywood and Highland at 6AM.

Contact Ted or Ron for details.

The rest of you can show up at 12 noon at Hollywood and WHITLEY
to march three blocks west on Hollywood to the corner of HIGHLAND.




Southern California CONSERVATIVES:



Please JOIN US on Sunday, February 27
(from noon to 5 pm)

under the "Thank you, Hollywood!" billboard at
Hollywood Blvd and Whitley Ave.



The following organizations are sponsoring a rally at this year's Academy Awards
to let Hollywood know that with Freedom of Speech
comes RESPONSIBILITY:


HOLLYWOOD CONGRESS OF REPUBLICANS
Mark Vafiades mark@hollywoodrepublicans.com

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY TOWNHALL CONSERVATIVES
Gary Aminoff - gaminoff@aminoff.com

SANTA MONICA/L.A. WESTSIDE TOWNHALL CONSERVATIVES
Veronica Olofsson - onemoreolo@aol.com

SANTA MONICA COLLEGE REPUBLICANS
Shane Smith - SMITH_SHANE@smc.edu

COMMITTEE TO SUPPORT LA COUNTY SEAL
David Hernandez - drhassoc@earthlink.net

THE SOUTH CENTRAL REPUBLICAN CLUB
Austin Dragon - contact@sclagop.org

UNITED AMERICAN COMMITTEE
Jesse Petrilla - Jpetrilla@questforsaddam.com

L. A. FOR BUSH
Genevieve Peters - genevieve@laforbush.com

HOLLYWOOD RESISTANCE FORCE (with the Free Republic Network)
RonDog Smith - ronsmith@quixnet.net

AMERICAN BLACK ELEPHANTS
Ted Hayes - TheTedShow@aol.com

PopUpUSA.com
Jeffers Dodge - jeffers@popupusa.com


 



TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Announcements; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: California
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To: OmegaMan
But if its the 'themes' or stories you don't care for then it's up to 'conservatives' to make their own movies, instead of trying to restrict what 'liberals' make...
Bingo!
Let the free market rule!
Just as talk radio and the Internet have made "gatekeepers" in the 'Old MEDIA' more and more irrelevant...
...dramatic advances in film-making technology (and the resulting SUBSTANTIALLY lower costs of production) will soon make 'Old HOLLYWOOD' no more than a bad memory. :o)
Check out this thread about the WONDERFUL conservative movies screened a few months ago -- right here in the "belly of the beast."
Ann Coulter, Protest Warriors, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan, and Iraq:
...at the first annual LIBERTY FILM FESTIVAL in HOLLYWOOD! (Oct. 1-3, 2004)
Hollywood's first CONSERVATIVE film festival:
www.LibertyFilmFestival.com

41 posted on 02/19/2005 1:19:05 PM PST by RonDog
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To: OmegaMan

Please note that I am not blaming Clinton. Actually, I never paid much attention to the folks who ran film studios previous to the Clinton years. I simply want an explanation for the last few years of movies, and the most logical explanation I can come up with is that the lag time for production had to come as a result of those who came to power in film making during the 1990s, which happen to be the Clinton years. That his Presidency led the way in moral decline only served to exascerbate the situaion.

I have voted with my dollars for at least a year now, and don't go: something I have never done before. Wanting to see a movie without having to worry about quality is rare in my book. I am to the point of refusing to quietly sit by while media shoves ideology down my throat.

As for conservative moviemakers, it would seem that the making of The Passion of the Christ is a good example of both the refusal to portray religion positively, as well as the academy's refusal to recognize anything but its technical effects, etc.

Having a few, good conservative films in a field flooded with films from a pit of vice would not be a bad idea. One of the qualities of Constantine, for example, that I liked was the recognition that there IS good and that it is worthwhile, and, worth fighting for.


42 posted on 02/19/2005 1:21:13 PM PST by combat_boots (Dug in and not budging an inch.)
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To: RonDog

Bumping for the best West Coast FReep this year....


43 posted on 02/19/2005 2:16:29 PM PST by Drango (FReepmal me to get on/off the *NPR/PBS* ping list)
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To: OmegaMan
You're delusional. Quentin Tarantino spawned an entire genre of ultra-violent, independent films that are directed at young, males and that changed the direction of storytelling for decades. And the entire body of films by black film makers are the most vile and disgusting ever created. Then there is the whole "American Pie" group and their spin-offs.

Being a member of the Academy and the Writers Guild, I have to watch just about every movie made in a year. Believe me, the 80's were child's play next to the cesspool generated in the 90's.

44 posted on 02/19/2005 2:23:10 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: combat_boots; RonDog; Grampa Dave; Invisible_hand; libfo; Fiddlstix; geedee; Blurblogger
I am to the point of refusing to quietly sit by while media shoves ideology down my throat.

IMO, this is the most egregious activity in La La Land-----proselytizing audiences without their knowledge or consent.

Hollywarped better get the message----we, the people, have had it with it's endless brainwashing of audiences into Christian-hating and American-hating, without audiences' knowledge or consent. Hollywarped has willfully chipped away at Western civilzation under the guise of "artistic expression."

Follywood firmly believes that 24/7 of their sexually salacious and violent TV, movies and music are not harming kids and the culture.

OTOH, Hollywarped also believes----with the religious fervor of Tammy Faye Baker---- that a single 15-sec commercial will compel tens of millions of Americans into thousands of stores to buy billions of dollars worth of soap, soup, breakfast cereal and cars.

They can't have it both ways.

The Moral Relativist Shock Troops better mend their ways. The usual suspects include: abortion-worshipping Feminazis, the fully fornicating Playboy-Cosmo faction, secular humanists who despise Christians, the ACLU-Christian baiters,Planned Parenthood and the population control cabal, and the gay-transgender anti-family element.

All of them aided and abetted by a compliant liberal media and agenda-driven academia inculcating the Nation's youth with the Hollywarped liberal idealogy.

We have had it with this Secular Taliban.

Follywood better live with it.

45 posted on 02/19/2005 2:54:12 PM PST by Liz (Wise men are instructed by reason; lesser men, by experience; the ignorant, by necessity. Cicero)
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To: Deb

I don't understand the big deal about it, I like the ultra violence IF it's done with a good story line. I came of age in the late 80s, early 90s. I choose to watch films that don't have the 50s style wholesome storylines with and woefully predictable endings. The 90s were chuck full of Disney films and family movies that had those elements - and they were rewarded in boxoffice revenue for producing them. If people like family movies, they should be allowed to watch them. Likewise, If I want to see Shawn of the Dead - I should be able to watch it in its all its immoral glory without some moralistic pinhead trying to tamper with it before it gets a chance to hit the screen. Let the market make the decisions.


46 posted on 02/19/2005 2:56:00 PM PST by stacytec
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To: Liz
45 posted on 02/19/2005 4:54:12 PM CST by Liz

Well Said!

Bears Repeating!
(Click the Link)

47 posted on 02/19/2005 3:15:08 PM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: RonDog

Bump to the top!


49 posted on 02/19/2005 4:54:47 PM PST by Joy Angela
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To: RonDog; Chieftain; Ragtime Cowgirl; gatorbait; GreyFriar; americanmother; The Mayor; ...

Great idea **PING**


50 posted on 02/19/2005 7:15:31 PM PST by Former Military Chick
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To: RonDog
Our current plans are for ME to dress as "Michael Moore..."
Since there is not much demand for a REAL "Michael Moore" costume, I have had to improvise. :o)

Here is the BODY, from www.cabalofdoom.com and www.hollywoodtoys.com:



51 posted on 02/19/2005 7:56:43 PM PST by RonDog
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To: RonDog
The FACE will be more difficult, from www.flashpoints.net and www.hollywoodtoys.com:


I just need to trim the mustache...

...and add a baseball hat, a scraggly beard, and some wire-rim glasses. :o)

52 posted on 02/19/2005 8:17:56 PM PST by RonDog
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To: RonDog
My SIGN will be the easy part, from www.amazon.com:


DUDE,
WHERE'S MY

OSCAR?

53 posted on 02/19/2005 8:26:25 PM PST by RonDog
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To: RonDog
Our current plans are for ME to dress as "Michael Moore..."
And, lest anyone think tha I am obsessing about this lowlife scum...
...see THIS thoughtful analysis of this year's Academy awards...
by Liberty Film Festival co-founder, Govindini Murty -- as posted on www.newsmax.com:
Oscar Nominations Play it Safe
Govindini Murty
Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2005
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences chose to shut out "The Passion" from all the major nominations. "The Passion" was awarded nominations for Cinematography, Music (Score), and Makeup, but in the most important categories of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay - and in all the acting categories - the movie was completely ignored.

Instead, the Academy chose to reward such artistically safe films as "The Aviator" with eleven nominations, "Million Dollar Baby" with seven nominations, "Finding Neverland" with seven nominations, "Ray" with six nominations, and "Sideways" with five nominations. "The Incredibles," a film popular with conservatives because of its intelligence and apparent Ayn Randian themes, received four nominations. The extraordinary Chinese masterpiece "Hero" was ignored, and its follow-up "The House of Flying Daggers" received only one nomination.

Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" - a film that was mendacious and morally reprehensible, but also one of the boldest films of the year - received no nominations. Slain Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh's "Submission" did not receive any nominations.

By all but ignoring "The Passion," and completely ignoring "Hero," "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Submission" the Academy lost the chance to actually be of significance this year.

These films were either the artistically most accomplished and original - or the most controversial and impactful - of the year. The films that were nominated for Best Picture - "The Aviator," "Finding Neverland," "Million Dollar Baby," "Sideways," and "Ray" were all films that artistically played it safe. None of them had the impact of "The Passion," generated the controversy of "Fahrenheit 9/11," were as daring as "Submission," or as visually stunning and profound as "Hero."

For the most part, the Best Picture nominees were handsomely mounted, tastefully executed mediocrities that will be forgotten within a year. The film industry claims to seek artistically daring, personal films - of the sort that were last produced in the 70's - but when these films are produced at great effort and personal cost by such artists as Mel Gibson, Zhang Yimou, and Theo Van Gogh - the film industry ignores them.

Giving "The Passion" only three nominations in the categories of Cinematography, Music (Score) and Makeup (as many nominations as the comic-book movie "Spiderman 2," the lugubrious musical "The Phantom of the Opera," and the abortion film "Vera Drake") certainly reveals a strange set of priorities on the part of the film industry. Years from now, the public probably will not recall that the most memorable aspect of "The Passion" was its makeup or its music. What the public will remember is Mel Gibson's bold and deeply personal conception of the film, the excellent writing, editing and art direction - and most of all, the powerful acting of Jim Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern, Monica Bellucci and Hristo Shopov. These film artists took great risks, suffered for their work (literally, in the case of Jim Caviezel), and achieved a depth and profundity rarely seen in film.

Years from now, history will remember 2004 as a banner year for film, when such movies as "The Passion," "Hero," "Submission," and "The Incredibles" showed that there were filmmakers willing to turn aside from twenty-five years of liberal mediocrity and embrace creativity and individuality.

The public will remember films that actually addressed themes otherwise ignored by Hollywood - religious faith, heroism, self-sacrifice, the importance of the individual, and belief in marriage and family.

They will remember that "Fahrenheit 9/11," for all its distortions and lies, was still the only film that actually addressed September 11th and the War on Terror. The public will remember these films, filmmakers will be either inspired or provoked to follow in their footsteps, and the art-form of the cinema will be the better for it. Too bad the Academy, an institution founded at Hollywood's birth to celebrate its highest achievements, couldn't have played a role in defining that legacy.

Govindini Murty is the Co-Director of the Liberty Film Festival.


54 posted on 02/19/2005 10:42:13 PM PST by RonDog
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To: RonDog
Liberty Film Festival co-founder, Govindini Murty
See also, from:
GOP Babe of the Week
(or why conservative women are better)

JerseyGOP.com ^
Posted on 02/03/2005 6:07:18 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s


Govindini Murty

55 posted on 02/19/2005 10:47:20 PM PST by RonDog
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To: RonDog
DUDE,
WHERE'S MY

OSCAR?

And, on the REVERSE side of that sign, I plan to have THIS message:

WILL LIE
FOR
OSCAR

56 posted on 02/19/2005 10:52:29 PM PST by RonDog
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To: stacytec
Um, okay, watch what you want. Defending various viewing preferences wasn't part of the discussion. Thanks for missing the point.

"Shawn of the Dead" is a cute, micro-budget, cult movie that no one would miss if it hadn't been made. Unlike "Ben-Hur", "Last of the Mohicans" or "The Wizard of Oz".

57 posted on 02/19/2005 11:02:06 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: RonDog
For those of you who choose NOT to wear goofy costumes to this rally...
...in addition to bringing AMERICAN FLAGS, you might consider...
...wearing BLUE FINGERS, like these people:



See, for example, THIS ten-year-old girl's tribute to the brave Iraqi voters...
...from www.billingsgazette.com:
JAMES WOODCOCK/Gazette Staff
Shelby Dangerfield, 10, is displaying her solidarity with the Iraqi voters by painting her finger blue as a representation of the voters fingers marked for the elections.

58 posted on 02/19/2005 11:16:18 PM PST by RonDog
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To: RonDog
you might consider wearing BLUE FINGERS...
The MESSAGE, of course, is:
"If we had listened to the Hollywood leftists...
...Iraq would not now be free."

59 posted on 02/19/2005 11:19:35 PM PST by RonDog
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To: RonDog
"Years from now, history will remember 2004 as a banner year for film, when such movies as "The Passion," "Hero," "Submission," and "The Incredibles" showed that there were filmmakers willing to turn aside from twenty-five years of liberal mediocrity and embrace creativity and individuality." - Govindini Murty
Other sign ideas might address the lack of "Passion" in this year's Academy Awards, like THIS:

OSCAR
NEEDS
"PASSION"

60 posted on 02/19/2005 11:25:05 PM PST by RonDog
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