Posted on 02/10/2017 8:36:59 AM PST by drewh
United Talent Agency, one of the half-dozen major talent agencies in Hollywood, has canceled its annual Oscar party and will instead host a rally in support of refugees at its Los Angeles office, according to a report.
The company — home to big-name clients like Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Mariah Carey, Toby Keith and dozens of others — also plans to donate $250,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union, which has worked to oppose President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily prohibiting immigration from seven countries, and to the International Rescue Committee.
“This is a moment that demands our generosity, awareness and restlessness,” Zimmer reportedly wrote to his staff. “Our world is a better place for the free exchange of artists, ideas and creative expression. If our nation ceases to be the place where artists the world over can come to express themselves freely, then we cease, in my opinion, to be America.”
The move to cancel the glitzy annual Oscars party comes as Hollywood has become increasingly vocal about Trump’s policy proposals and executive actions, particularly his action on immigration. At the Screen Actors Guild Awards last month, several film and television stars used their acceptance speeches to speak out against Trump’s order; actress Sarah Paulson specifically called for donations to the ACLU.
THR further reported that Ari Emanuel, co-CEO of mega-agency and UTA competitor WME-IMG, sent an email to staff Wednesday notifying them that the company would be forming a political action committee, though it wasn’t immediately clear on what the PAC would focus.
“This company’s greatest asset is the diversity of our backgrounds and beliefs,” Emanuel wrote to the agency. “Please know that we will do everything in our power to support and protect this diversity now and in the months and years ahead.”
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And Trump will keep signing executive orders. :)
Which will have more effect?
Such selfless people in their $50,000 outfits.
Pray America woke
Gee, I wonder who’s setting up and cleaning up the affair?
I’d love to see local theater groups nationally begin a ‘Great America’ theme, for conservative audiences, with good, clean, mature and patriotic plays.
We’d finally have a good alternative to sophomoric, immoral Hollywood movies and actors.
Sounds like a fund raiser for a Criminal Enterprise. I hope they funnel money to help hide and assist Criminal Invaders.
Can you say RICO charges?
These Idiots forget one thing...The New Attorney General knows how to address Criminal Organizations.
Slap a bunch of these whiney bitches in jail! They can have weekly talent shows for the Gang Member that don’t spend their spare time playing with them in the showers.
lol. You are right about RICO.
Sick of them just using it on us Italians :)
Sessions is gonna kick a##!!!!!!
I think after such a trip, their "high horse" attitude will change in no time flat because they'll personally experience a world many of them have never seen. Indeed, Michael Medved in his autobiography Right Turns specifically said his many hitchhiking trips across the country in his younger days was instrumental in turning him from doctrine Liberal to Conservative, because he saw people that many of his fellow Yale University students (Medved attended Yale for several years) have never experienced.
If there were a real world Return of the Jedi the Awards Ceremony would be messed with just like the Inauguration was messed with. Microphones, lights, protests, men showing up dressed in Burkas or who knows what? But no, they get to have their galas and celebrate and enjoy unfettered because they are entitled and elite. “Dear Fake People..”
they moved to the coasts TO GET AWAY from the dirty flyover commoners...drama nerds teased at the football games etc.
Organize against Hollywood? Why? Let them self implode, it will the best thing to come out of Hollywood in 40 years.
Then they have become essentially the denizens of the fictional capital of Panem from the Hunger Games novel trilogy.
Is Hollywood the entirety of the leftists and Trump haters???
No...My comment was about ALL the leftist problem we have from coast to coast...They ARE organized as proven...We aren’t...
The T.E.A. Party was the beginning of an organization, but it came apart...The left is strongly organized and receives millions from foreign and domestic enemies of our form of government...We need to get together...
Ben Franklin said it...United, we stand...Divided, we fall..
Hollywood has talent????
I think it would be really funny for some people to get petitions signed to “save the refugees” and after they sign ask them how soon they will be ready to accept their refugee family and then show the fine print of the petition that says the undersigned will guarantee a family shelter in their home and accepts full financial responsibility for the family. Then show them the picture of the family that will be delivered to them.
They should change their name to Jews for a Headless Future.
Great! Glad to hear they are having a party for the refugees. Just wondering though, will all refugees be invited? Will they need to prove they are a refugee to go to the party? Or will there be some kind of vetting to make sure that only the right kind of refugees get in?
Yes, I am being sarcastic. I realize of course, that the Hollywood crowd will throw a party for a noble cause at the drop of a hat, but actually doing anything of value is just so hard.
Except in the media and on college campuses.
Except of course, diversity of opinion.
Clearly, the Oscar party had to go, as there are no Oscar worthy movies to celebrate.
I think that’s a superb idea!
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