Posted on 10/02/2005 6:04:39 PM PDT by finnman69
'COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF' SUTHERLAND: BUSH WILL DESTROY OUR LIVES
Choking back tears, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF star Donald Sutherland warned this week: President Bush "will destroy our lives!"
The star of the new ABC drama, which follows the first woman President of the United States, lashed out at the real White House during a dramatic sit down interview with the BBC.
Sutherland ripped Bush and his administration for the war and Hurricane Katrina fallout.
"They were inept. The were inadequate to the task, and they lied," Sutherland charged.
"And they were insulting, and they were vindictive. And they were heartless. They did not care. They do not care. They do not care about Iraqi people. They do not care about the families of dead soldiers. They only care about profit."
At one point during the session, Sutherland started crying: "We stolen our children's future... We have children. We have children. How dare we take their legacy from them. How dare we. It's shameful. What we are doing to our world."
Sutherland went on rip Karl Rove's "methods and means" against people like Cindy Sheehan.
"We're back to burning books in Germany," Sutherland said of NBC's editing out of Kanye West's comment on Bush during a hurricane relief telethon.
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"choking back tears"
All actors know how to cry on cue.
"I like the line "Frankly, I find Milton as boring as you do" from Animal House. As well."
Did not see Animal House. So sorry can't respond in kind.
Scratch "Ordinary People" from the list.
I wish these people would just shut up and stop typecasting themselves as annoying idiots. The list of movies that I with a cast that I can stomach gets shorter every day...
The democrat party is turning into into an out-and-out criminal organization, incapable of exercising power responsibly when it acquires it.
The Clinton era demonstrated that beyond any doubt.
The democrat party is unable to police itself, and is unwilling to distance itself from loonies like Kos who call for domestic terrorism. It cannot eliminate the virus that infects it.
The result is that the GOP will be dragged more to the center, as responsible democrats leave their party.
Somewhere in the back of my aging brain I remember Sutherland's character in Invasion of the Body Snatchers making a snide remark about Republicans.
You forgot immature. And the annoying habit of not being able to age gracefully.
In all honesty, that is the story of the last five decades in this country. Makes me want to put on my pop-pschology hat...but they make me way, way too tired. There has to be a reason for all that pent up anger. Probably something about control. But hey...somebody will do a study, I'm sure! ; )
I was surfing and the image of the woman President came up. Knowing Sutherland was involved the channel changed instantaneously. This guy is a real loser who could only win in the weirdness of HWood.
You know, I have never said this before, but the thought of the Clintons being in the WH again, for some reason makes me laugh.
Really.
I could care less, I am not afraid, nor scared or angry.
For me it would be four years of shear hysterical laughter.
(what is wrong with me?)
I am sure that being a President Bush hating Moonbat was part of the requirements to be casted in the "Commander in Chief " Hillery series. No big suprise.
Bush is the anti-socialist. That's why there is all these wild displays.
Born Donald McNichol Sutherland on 17 July 1934 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, he was, for most of the 60's, living in Britain and turning up in any part requiring a convenient American accent, a common predicament for Canadian actors.
Sutherland made a one-off return to British TV in The Railway Station Man (BBC, 1992), reuniting him with Don't Look Now co-star Julie Christie.
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Donald Sutherland (1934 - )
* actor
* born July 17, 1934, Saint John, New Brunswick
* educated University of Toronto (engineering, drama); LAMDA, London; RADA, London
* gaunt leading man with British repertory stage experience
* played in several 1960s horror films before starring as surgeon Hawkeye Pierce in Robert Altman's breakthrough film, M*A*S*H (1970)
* important performances include:
o the reserved detective in Klute (1971), opposite Jane Fonda
o Jesus Christ in Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
o a death-obsessed parent in Nicholas Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973)
o the father in Robert Redford's Ordinary People (1980)
o a South African schoolteacher and anti-apartheid activist in A Dry White Season (1989)
* divorced from actresses Lois Hardwick and Shirley Douglas
* his son by Douglas, actor Kiefer Sutherland, was named after Warren Kiefer, the screenwriter on his first film, Castle of the Living Dead (1964).
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Sutherland was a major counterculture star in the early 1970s, winning critical raves as snarky Army surgeon Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H (1970) and as a small-town detective bonding with a New York call girl in Klute (1971, with his co-star Jane Fonda winning the best actress Oscar). Megastardom didn't last but Sutherland remained one of Hollywood's busiest actors, appearing in nearly 100 features and TV movies by the year 2000.
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Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland (born July 17, 1935) is a Canadian actor. He was born in Saint John, New Brunswick and was raised in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.
Sutherland got his start at age 14 at CBC Radio in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He studied in Toronto at Victoria College where he was expelled from residence for throwing a sink out the window. He then went to London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), then he started gaining some popularity as an actor in horror films and thrillers.
Sutherland's great success arrived with The Dirty Dozen and Robert Altman's M*A*S*H. With Jane Fonda, Sutherland co-produced F.T.A., a movie containing quite explicit messages against the Vietnam War. In the 1970s he found himself in demand as a leading man in films like Klute and The Eagle Has Landed, and gained some of the best notices of his career for his role in Ordinary People in 1980. He also played Norman Bethune (Canadian physician and humanitarian and a hero in China) in two separate biographical films more than ten years apart.
He was formerly married to Shirley Douglas, an actress and the daughter of Canadian democratic socialist statesman Tommy Douglas. Kiefer Sutherland, their son, is a director and prominent actor himself.
That has to be one of the most absurd characters ever created by Hollywood. I doubt such a person would have made it through his first day of basic in those days without someone killing him.
Wow! I am glad that I quit smoking dope a long time ago before it turned my brain to mush like this chowderhead.
This is your brain. This is your brain after 40 years of smoke and making a living in Hollyweird.
Sitdown interview with the BBC?
It's what you'd expect.
I've been saying this since the last election. I don't see how she can even win her party's nomination. Anyone who doubts this needs to listen to one of her speeches in its entirety, if that is even possible.
Hollywood better work a lot harder. According to Nielsen overnights, "Chief" premiered to a only 4.3 average rating among viewers 18-49, finishing third in its timeslot behind Fox’s "House," [yeah!] at 5.0, and CBS’s "Amazing Race." After all the hype that ABC threw at "Chief", it should have done much better in debut. Now that the tepid (and worse) reviews are coming in, it's likely to slide even more, which will do the Hillary candidacy no good at all. Heck, it may even track pretty with her candidacy: the more you learn about it, the worse it looks.
Sutherland was offered points on the back end for Animal House, but he thought the movie wouldn't do very well, so he insisted on a straight upfront payment: $40,000. If he'd taken the percentage of the profits, he would have made untold millions.
Perhaps that mistake's driven him nuts.
He and Jane Fonda were once an item. Same ideology then as now.
Thanks for supplying the numbers. I admit some curiosity about them.
Guess America wasn't initially in love with being preached to by a "Hear me Roar" Hillary clone.
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