Posted on 07/27/2005 5:50:53 AM PDT by OESY
It's time for your regular Hollywood update — in which people who earn and lose and gross hundreds of millions of dollars figure out ways to trash America, democracy and freedom....
Yes, well, God forbid anyone should question the motives of the terrorists.
Not while Hollywood is so busy questioning the motives of the United States....
The actress Maggie Gyllenhaal... believed America was in "some way responsible" for the 9/11 attacks. She said this during interviews for a film she made called "The Great New Wonderful," which dealt with 9/11.
Her shocking views were certainly less shocking to those who know that Gyllenhaal is the daughter of a screenwriter named Naomi Foner. In 1988, Foner wrote a film called "Running on Empty" that basically lionized and celebrated America's own wanna-be al Qaeda organization, the Weather Underground.
Naomi Foner is the sister of Eric Foner, a professor at Columbia who sees the 9/11 attacks as an opportunity for the United States to broaden its own self-criticisms: "In the wake of 9/11," he has written, "it is all the more imperative that the history we teach must be a candid appraisal of our own society's strengths and weaknesses, not simply an exercise in self-celebration — a conversation with the entire world, not a complacent dialogue with ourselves."...
Now Jane Fonda, who was very funny playing a monster in "Monster-in-Law," has decided to return to her real-life role as a monster. She begins an anti-war bus tour real soon. "I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam," Fonda says. "I carry a lot of baggage from that."
Considering that she spent some time this spring sorta kinda apologizing for her appalling conduct during that war, you'd think she might show a little modesty now....
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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Hollyweird is one liberal poltically incestuous cesspool.
If we don't give them any attention maybe they'll shut up. I could care less what these actors/actresses think - no more than they care what I think.
Am I supposed to recognize those names ? Who the hell ever heard of these people ? Who gives 2 sh*ts what they think anyway ?
Ah, I see. Geez, everyone in Hollywood is related to someone else in Hollywood. It's how most of them get their foot in the door. They're like the royal family: inbred and mostly decorative.
It's so conderate of these hollywood scummers to once again remind us of why we really can't go to the movies anymore.
If someone can tune me in to alternative "conservative" movie festivals, I would really be interested.
I've only seen 4 movies in the last 3 years, and one of them was Team America. One other had no bias of any kind either, Phantom of the Opera. ;)
Who the hell is she?
That's funny.
What an excellent observation!
A lot of "experts" deny that this is affecting box office revenues, but I disagree. I know of quite a few people who are quietly boycotting Hollywood.
Yup, I think a lot of us are boycotting Hollywood. What's to miss, anyway? I hear their revenues are WAY down. The market speaks.
You'd think Hanoi Jane would have learned her lesson, which just goes to show that because a person is a celebrity does not mean they have a high IQ.
Political humor often noted for being some of the most entertaining sometimes appears to cloud the real plans of the political movers and shakers.
Example: Who among the candidates really benefits from the vicious turn of actors,entertainers and other camp followers to discredit our President,our troops and our way of life?..in time of War? By now this is treasoness behavior...not freedom of speech.
But, that aside, who will "benefit" from this?
I've seen this movie. It didn't lionize and celebrate the Weather Underground at all. In fact, it accomplished quite the opposite -- it made them look misguided and pathetic.
The movie tells the story of a family where the mother and father were involved in a 1960s-type leftists anti-war bombing. The parents have been on the run ever since, living under assumed names and running from town to town whenever it appears that they are about to be caught. They have had two children since the bombing, who have understandably had a difficult life growing up in such circumstances. The movie picks up the family just as the older son is about to graduate high school, but has to move yet again because the heat is coming down on the family.
It is impossible to imagine how anyone can see this movie as a celebration of the radical bomb-throwing left. If anything, it is an indictment of the stupidity of violent student radicals in the 1960s, and the futility of their efforts.
Senator McCarthy was right in the 50's. We could use him now. Hollywood has always been liberal to the point of idiocy.
There was a doccumentry about that very subject not too long ago. Most actors are dumb as a brick, and barely manage to get through high school. The only "real job" most of them have ever had is waiting tables, or as errand boy/girls behind the scenes, a job they get through relatives. How could they know what's going on in the real world when they have never lived in it?
The closest thing to the reality of how "nice muslims" turn evil is watching big brother. ( As soon as "Kasar" won HOH, his eyes grew evil looking and he started attacking his friends. I only watch it to see if he'll set off a bomb when he gets kicked out)
People are j ust plain tired of hollywood and its phony occupants. Years ago people went to the movie during wartime to be entertained because everyone supported the war effort. Hollywood in turn did its part to help and the American people responded in kind.
Today hollywood bashes its own country. The very own country and people who put food in their mouths and money in their wallets. They are too full of themselves and for some reason think that everything they do is something we want to know about.
They are wasteful beyond comprehension. This morning we flipped past and then went back to a channel that was showing baby items and the stars who pay for them. They showed a tiny little pair of baby shoes and the pricetag on those were $180. Imagine.. $180 for a pair of baby shoes that would be worn maybe 5 times.
I guess I shouldn't blame the stars. I should instead congratulate the the makers of these items and their brillance for hawking these items to the stars. The makers know the stars will buy anything as long as it has a designer (and I use that term lightly) name on it and they know the stars are so full of themselves they think buying all of that makes them special or better. So, they are taken to the cleaners while the maker collects the money and laughs behind their backs.
Hollywood in my opinion is finished. There are virtuals tht will happen in the future and then no one will have to look at or listen to the excuses in hollywood who call themselves talent.
Our country will go on forever and in the meantime we will watch these wasteful, self-serving individuals drop by the wayside one by one by one. Good Riddance!
ps: I just bought a darling little pair of blue and white tennis shoes for a baby in Target. They are the cutest little things and only cost $9. No designer label...just good, common sense sweet little shoes for a baby boy. Yeah!
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