Re: "It will never happen. Conservatives have far too much common sense to get involved in show business."
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That sounds like something some German once upon a time said to another about Joe Gobbles propganda...
Give a conservative $200 million and they'll build a shopping mall, invest in bonds, and possibly some solid stocks, etc.
Give $200 million to a movie guy and he'll hire a guy living in a studio apartment in West Hollywood to write 120 pages, then assemble a group of craftsman, emotionally dicey performers and technicians and spend $210 million producing a very long strip of plastic that can hopefully be cut and pasted into something resembling a story that someone, somewhere will pay money to see.