Lights! Camera! Lobying! Hollywood top gun in Washington woos Republicans

Newsweek ^ | Tamara Lipper

[Nascardude]

Feb. 28 issue - Dan Glickman isn't exactly the Hollywood type. More comfortable in pinstripes than Prada, he's a former Clinton Agriculture secretary, Kansas congressman and president of the Witchita school board—and nothing like the flashy, debonair Jack Valenti, the legendary head of the Motion Picture Association of America. After 38 years at the MPAA, Valenti has become a celebrity in his own right, landing his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But as Glickman heads toward his first Academy Awards since taking over for Valenti as the industry's chief lobbyist, he's the one schmoozing Hollywood directors and cozying up to the stars he'd once admired from the back row of the movie theater. As he mingled at a glitzy party after the Golden Globe Awards, the self-effacing Glickman sidled up to actress Christine Lahti, who starred in one of his favorite flicks, "Running on Empty." "I'm the new Jack Valenti," he joked. Glickman arrives just as Hollywood finds itself caught in the crossfire between Red and Blue America. George W. Bush mocked the industry's liberal values in last year's campaign. This Sunday, when stars step out of their limos at the Oscars, they'll be greeted by a billboard from the conservative group Citizens United. It pictures Bush with Michael Moore, Whoopi Goldberg and Barbra Streisand and the ironic message: W. STILL PRESIDENT. THANK YOU HOLLYWOOD! Not only did celebrities campaign against Bush, but they've come under fire for movies (Clint Eastwood's euthanasia plot in "Million Dollar Baby") and television broadcasts (Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction) that offend conservative sensibilities.

[Mears]

John Gibson's show on Fox last night covered this issue,and very well.

The Hollywood conservatives are starting to come out of the closets and it's about time.

[wmileo]

Glickman should know that hiring Republican Consultants and eating with the Republican Speaker of the House will not get the folks in the red states to go see Hollywood trash and support anti piracy legislation. The red state voters do not follow the Republican Party heads even if they vote Republican on the national level.
Hollywood has got to stop ignoring movies like " The Passion of the Christ" and stop promoting Politically Correct Crap like " The Sum of all Fears, Runaway Jury and The Manchurian Candidate (circa 2004)" etc. If they don't change their ways, three things will happen:
1.The folks will not go to the movies
2.The folks will not watch the Oscars this year.
3. The Oscars will become as irrelevant as the Hollywood Bush Haters

[libs_kma]

1.The folks will not go to the movies.

Don't know if I count here. I already don't go to movies that aren't kid movies. And not that I watch much of them at all, but I love to see the trend that Reality TV shows (which leave hollywood idiots unemployed) and also animated movies, (which now employ known actors as voices, but will soon find out that its unnecessary to pay them all those dollars when any voice will do).

2.The folks will not watch the Oscars this year.

I can;t count here either because I have never watched these shows. Why watch idiot people like this? I don't know them or care about them and they seem to think that
I should be falling all over myself to listen to what they have to say. I say WHY? Who are they beside fake people, educational dropouts?

3. The Oscars will become as irrelevant as the Hollywood Bush Haters

Aren't they already? Like Chris Rock says, what males, besides gays, watch this POS?