Posted on 09/19/2008 12:16:06 PM PDT by Maelstorm
They meet discreetly once a month at a restaurant in the Valley. At first, there weren't many--Jon Voight, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper--but now...there still aren't many. Nevertheless, they're a resolute bunch: proud, loud, and a little lonely. They are Hollywood's conservatives. "You sort of feel like you have to hide it," says director David Zucker. "When you meet, you give each other a secret look--'Are you a Republican too?' It's the new gay."
On Oct. 3, Zucker and his lunchmates will out themselves when An American Carol, Hollywood's first unabashedly right-wing comedy, opens in 2,000 theaters. Think Dickens' holiday classic, spun by Pat Buchanan and infused with the gleeful absurdism Zucker and his brother Jerry (a Democrat) used in '80s comedy touchstones like Airplane! and Naked Gun. Voight plays the spirit of George Washington, Grammer stars as George Patton's ghost, and Hopper portrays a conservative judge who picks off zombie ACLU lawyers with a shotgun. In the Scrooge role is Kevin Farley (younger brother of late comedian Chris) as a slobby documentarian-named Michael Malone, for those who need to be hit over the head--who bah-humbugs the Fourth of July. Until, that is, Washington takes him to the World Trade Center after 9/11 and converts him into a patriot.
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I wish they’d quit advertising for this. I’ve been so geeked for this movie since I first heard about it in July.
I’ve heard several mentions of this on a CBS show..but can’t remember which one...possibly the late late show/Ferguson.
Thanks for the information, sounds really interesting!
Loved this line:
“’Are you a Republican too?’ It’s the new gay.”
I intend to see more than once just to make this a success!
I can’t wait for this to come out. I am bringing my two kids. This is the first time I will have gone to the movie theater in 5 years!
I’ll go opening night, and I’ll start USA chants during the previews.
Yup. I already had tickets for the “Blocking the Path to 9/11” (docu) but it’s worth the $$$ for our cause.
Let’s go FREEPERS!
Why isn’t Tom Selleck on that list?
Hope to see him in a new flick soon.
I think it’s PG-13
Yes it is. I don’t have little ones though. My two boys are 16 and 21 and yes I still refer to them as kids LOL.
I’ll be there—with bells on! I haven’t been to a movie for months, due to Hollywierd propaganda, and have been renting horror (no, not Jane Fonda) DVDs.
When did Hopper switch? He used to be a drugged up punk in the 60s talking smack about rednecks and Southerners.
I’ve been watching the ads for this...it looks terrific.
Mohammed - (dozens of talibanesque fighters jump up from behind/under rocks)
One movie I may spend the money to go see at a theatre
George S. Patton! Zombies! Judge Hopper—I can’t wait!
Dennis Hopper cleaned up in the mid-1980s. Before he made Hoosiers, Blue Velvet, and Colors.
I am SO looking forward to this movie!
I live in CA and can really relate to the feeling of having to hide my politics.
I will make a note to see it. I havent seen a movie in a long time.
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