True, but what he is doing is effectively killing the appeal of his movies to the masses. Now if its artsy fartsy movies that he wants to make so only Sundance viewer see it, OK, but there are alot of very competant Conservative actors that could have pulled of the roles that Spicoli and Mr. Sarandon did. Sorry but if you can't separate the actor for the activism, your asking for boxoffice death!
Worthy point.
This is a good point, one I've been making for some time now. It's one thing if an actor appears on Leno (Carson) or Letterman or whoever, and says pretty calmly, hey this what I believe but it takes all kinds to make a world, blah-blah-blah, which is the way it used to be.
But when they go out of their way to so publicly and constantly heap insults on their audience in a screechy, sanctimonious tone, then it becomes extremely difficult for the audience to separate the actor from the insults he or she has hurled at you. In the public eye, they become annoying activists who make movies as a part time job.
If the Garafolo-ites think that's unfair, then they are even bigger wack-jobs than we thought. This is just Business 101. Never alienate your customers. Would these actoids go to a restaurant where they knew some of the waiters were people who insulted them when they saw them out on the street?