Posted on 09/04/2007 8:28:14 AM PDT by seanmerc
VENICE, Italy (AP) - Richard Gere and Charlize Theron added their voices to a chorus of stars taking swipes at the Bush administration at the Venice Film Festival. "How did we elect Bush twice?" Gere asked rhetorically while promoting his new film, "The Hunting Party."
In the film, Gere plays a reporter determined to track down Radovan Karadizic—who has been hiding for more than a decade and is charged with genocide and crimes against humanity for his role as an alleged architect of the Bosnian war.
"What's interesting to me is how do the bad people among us end up our leaders?" the 58-year-old actor said at a news conference Monday.
In "The Valley of Elah," Theron plays a New Mexico detective drawn into the case of a U.S. soldier who disappears just days after returning from a tour of duty in Iraq.
"The decision-making process for going into Iraq was very hastily done, and I think the facts weren't there, and I just don't think you go to war for those reasons," Theron, 32, told Associated Press Television in an interview. "I think the thing that upset me most was the manipulation that our government did towards our people, manipulating them to believe that if they weren't for the war, they weren't patriotic."
George Clooney has said he made "Syriana" and "Good Night, and Good Luck" out of anger for being considered a traitor for questioning the decision to go to war. He told reporters at Venice last week that he believes Americans are now in the process of fixing the mistakes of the last few years.
The film festival ends Saturday with the awarding of the top Golden Lion prize.
Richard Gere - Got gerbils?
George Clooney - Isn’t time you came out of the closet, boy George?
Charlize Theron - Nobody pays attention to you for your mind, sweetie....
Well, Dances With Gerbils, when the alternative was Al Gore and John Kerry, it was pretty darn easy.
Ohhh...geeee getting bashed by those two foreign and domestic policy brainiacs should be a red badge of courage for W...
Hollywood jokers are a pathetic lot, aren’t they?
“Hi! Have you seen my new movie? It’s all about how the US completely screwed up the war in Bosnia in the 1990’s! Unbelievable!! And how did we elect Bush twice?? Did I mention that I’m a complete idiot?”
Please, please, please don't call Clooney a traitor. Or he'll make more really crappy movies that no one goes to see.
I think he was voted in twice Mr. Gerbil.
Is there self esteem so low they have to be publicly demeaning about someone to make themselves feel good?
Go back to South Africa Charlize.
*yawn* - celebrities hate Bush, make asses of themselves overseas -
You didn't. WE did!
“George Clooney has said he made “Syriana” and “Good Night, and Good Luck” out of anger for being considered a traitor for questioning the decision to go to war.”
And I chose not to watch either of these movies because I consider you a massive traitor.
Someone ought to tell Gere that, as a Buddhist, he would be beheaded by the Islamists.........it might actually improve his IQ..............
And a bad actor, too!
Maybe he's really talking about Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro. Oh, my bad, those are the "good" guys to characters like Gere and his ilk.
Did Gere’s Gerbil have anything to say on the subject?
I wonder what Ms. Theron believes to be war worthy?
Someone cutting her salary in her next mediocre movie?
Mr. Gere? He is and always has been a wanker, pure and simple.
Taking advice from these folks is like gargling with bleach.
Shut up and get back in the studio.
Isn't she South African? What's with this "our" crap when talking about the US?
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