William Morris Agency shuts down Boycotthollywood.com

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[barbarianbabs]

The William Morris Agency shuts down boycott-hollywood web site. Figures.

[Happy2BMe]

A Marine Comes Home: Fallen warriors remind us why whiny celebs are irrelevant
Opinion Journal ^ | 05/01/03 | DOROTHY RABINOWITZ

Posted on 04/30/2003 9:04 PM PDT by Pokey78

The battle of Iraq may be over but the warriors for peace struggle on. Theirs is not an easy road, particularly, we hear, in the entertainment industry, which is packed with notables fresh from their vocal campaign against the war, the president, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney--objects of scorn in all the best circles, from Paris to California.

Now, it appears, some celebrities worry about damage to their careers. The Dixie Chicks have taken a hit. Sean Penn thinks his views have cost him jobs. Tina Brown, whose main concern about the war seems to be that it caused the postponement of her new TV show, announced last week that it would soon air and that she planned to decorate the set with an American flag bigger than anyone else's. She had to scrape up as many core American values as she could, declared Ms. Brown, "to have any hope of being allowed on TV at all in the current climate of punitive patriotism."

No fear. Americans aren't likely to concern themselves much with Ms. Brown's flag--in the event they actually encounter her program. Most of them have matters more pressing on their minds. For some, these days, those matters include funerals and mourning rites for people they have never met.

On April 14 in Vermont, for example, mourners gathered for the funeral of 21-year-old Marine Cpl. Mark Evnin, killed in action on the drive to Baghdad. A thousand people attended the rites at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue in Burlington, at which the Marine's grandfather, a rabbi, presided. Reporters related how the Marine Corps League color guard and local firefighters flanked the walkway into the synagogue, where mourners included the Roman Catholic bishop and the governor.

Crowds lined the streets in salute--some with flags, some with signs--everywhere the funeral procession passed. But what struck the Burlington Free Press reporters most were all the strangers who had been impelled to come to the cemetery to honor the young Marine. One of them was a mother who had brought her two young children and stood holding two American flags. "Every single man and woman out there is my son and daughter," she told the journalists. "He could have done a lot with his life. But he gave it to the nation."

Two days later came the funeral mass for 25-year-old Marine First Lt. Brian McPhillips of Pembroke, Mass., killed not far from Baghdad. Three Marines died in the firefight at Tuwayhah described by Dallas Morning News embedded reporter Jim Landers. The 2nd Tank Battalion had run into an ambush by a band of Islamic Jihad volunteers--Syrians, Egyptians, Yemenis and others. Lt. McPhillips went down firing his machine gun.

The knock that brought the news home in the early hours of April 6 had caused the walls to reverberate, his mother recalled. His father, a Marine veteran of Vietnam, knew at once what the 5:00 a.m. visit meant. They never come because somebody's been wounded: "They want you to know as soon as possible."

Neither of the McPhillips was surprised at Brian's choice of a military career. His father had served, his great-uncle had fought at Guadalcanal; and Julie and David McPhillips had been the sort of parents who wanted to imbue their children with a consciousness of history--that of their country's not least. So they took them to places like Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg and other national shrines.

David McPhillips nevertheless used all his powers of persuasion to keep Brian from enlisting in the Marines right out of high school. Heeding his parents, Brian went off to Providence College, a Catholic institution, where he thrived, compiled an academic record most people considered enviable, his father included, and looked to the future. Shortly after graduation in 2000, it arrived, with the commissioning ceremony that made him an officer in the Marines. He would go to war, his father reported, carrying his rosary and his Bible.

At his funeral service at the Holy Family Church in Rockland, where Brian's mother attended daily Mass, David McPhillips recalled his son's generosity and enterprise. Mrs. McPhillips would deliver a eulogy of her own, afterward carried in the local papers, on the subject of her son's life and death. She saw herself, Julie McPhillips said, as one of the fellow Americans for whom he had given his life. It had been her great privilege to be his mother: "To you my dear and faithful son, from earth to heaven I salute you . . . ."

As at Cpl. Evnin's funeral, crowds lined the streets. Brian's uncle Paul Finegan pondered the problems getting to the cemetery in Concord--a 150-car cortege traveling 50 miles on the busiest highway in New England. He had, it turned out, nothing to fear: 50 state troopers, many of them coming in from days off, had closed most of the road for them, a stretch of 35 miles.

Then came another sight he could scarcely believe. At the side of the road, near their halted cars, stood streams of people, standing at attention--paying their respects.

"They stopped all these cars, and people got out to stand holding their hands over their hearts," he marveled.

He should not have been surprised. Scenes like this are the reason all the celebrity protesters can stop worrying about public wrath and punishment. Americans have other things on their minds all right. September 11, for one. What they have on their minds, too, since the just-concluded remarkable war, is the consciousness of who they are and what this society is that it should have produced men and women of the kind who fought in that war and died in it.

People got a powerfully close look at their fellow Americans in uniform these last weeks. This is what impels them now to stand at roadsides in tribute, heedless of where else they had to go. And this is why strangers flock to funerals.

[Tauzero]

Dotster has been contacted.

[longtermmemmory]

Why not just move the site to a different server?

[vikingvx]

www.whorepresents.com

You can find out who williammorris reps.

I'm confused.

Is that www.who_represents.com?

Or is it www.whore_presents.com?

[TBP]

Several of the most current threads at www.boycott-hollywood.us are still up, below the William Morris item. Perhaps we FReepers should copy and post them. William Morris's idea is to get them off the Net. If they get reposted here or elsewhere, they get saved and can still be read.

[smith288]

Its inter changeable

[talleyman]

Or is it www.whore_presents.com?

Damn - beat me to it! I think I'll forward that to them.

[smith288]

I went ahead and grabbed your "chill wind" page and saved it locally. I will put it on my website to archive the hypocracy that is Hollywood

[kcvl]

http://www.whorepresents.com/main.asp


Type in name of actor...

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

I posted this a bit ago, but your's took off. That's good. People need to see this.

If this isn't a silencing the opposition issue, I don't know what is.

[Happy2BMe]

tnx! - we also asked Admin to archive the file here on FR so that when the page goes down we can still view them here.

H2BMe

[TommyDale]

This reminds me of a "lawyer" who contacted my former ISP and told them they had a "court order" demanding to get my personal information. It seems I had posted something about the Church of $cientology that they didn't like. My ISP asked me about it, and I told them they better be certain that it is REALLY a court order, because if it wasn't real, I would sue them myself! I switched ISPs after that little incident. People are so paranoid when a "lawyer" sends a letter.

I have a friend locally who solved the lawsuit threat problem, which is out of control in North Carolina. Any time someone threatens/files a lawsuit against him, he automatically counter-sues. He says 99% of the time, the plaintiff drops their lawsuit.

[Pagey]

The William Morris Agency shuts down boycott-hollywood web site

A more honest sentence would be "The William Morris Agency' "Threat Of Legal Action" shuts down boycott-hollywood web site." If the owner of that domain really was serious,they'd stick that site on another server with a different .com,.org,.net,.cc,.ws,.info,.biz, or .us domain name.It's dirt cheap to make that occur too.

[barbarianbabs]

InternetLAW...a blank page.

[Terry Mross]

Here 's an idea. Until William Morris retracts their complaints and threats we simply boycott all talent represtented by the blacklisting Morris Agency.

[Sir Gawain]

Why don't they just change service providers?

[weegee]

So much for free speech. I guess that we'll be seeing Mikey Moron and Tim Robbins taking to the streets to protest this, eh?

After all there on those on the left who called President Bush a nazi and a war criminal and we know that those statements are untrue (libelous?).

The Hollywood brownshirts continue storming America.

One group doesn't want websites online or Dr. Laura or Michael Savage (talk show hosts) on tv.

The other group doesn't want to fund entertainers who are paid to read lines and sing make seditious attacks on this nation when they spout their "opinions". They got the microphone because they are entertaining, not because they are knowledgable.

[weegee]

Here 's an idea. Until William Morris retracts their complaints and threats we simply boycott all talent represtented by the blacklisting Morris Agency.

"Call for Will-iam Mor-ris... you won't be getting a dime from me..."

[barbarianbabs]

Are timmyrobbins and mikeymoore represented by williammorris? Anyone?? Anyone?? Buller?

[weegee]

The first time I saw that website name on this thread I read it as "whore presents". Sounds right for a Hollywood website.