Posted on 11/05/2004 12:05:51 AM PST by kattracks
HOLLYWOOD- For Hollywood's part, the presidential campaign of 2004 will be remembered as a blockbuster effort that brought together a glittering all-star cast, a robust budget and an amazing soundtrack to produce ... a major dud.
Sen. John F. Kerry's bid for the White House rallied A-list movie stars, savvy moguls, brand-name rock heroes and street-smart rappers to its cause. But in the end it came down to the little people - the voters - and they didn't seem particularly star-struck.
"We squandered record amounts of money," said Dan Adler, board member of Rock the Vote, the outreach effort that uses music stars to rally the youth vote. "Smart and good people, not just from Hollywood, jumped in with great ideas and great resources. People went into battleground states. We squandered a unity of purpose. We have nothing to show for it."
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Chad Griffin, a Hollywood-based public affairs consultant and political strategist, quipped: "A lot of the Hollywood people with whom I spoke were saying, `Thank God we live in the People's Republic of California.' " They were also talking about the need for a coalition to build a bridge between New York and California - with no onramps."
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I won't even spend money on their DVD since they may get some royalties from the sales. I'll just wait until it plays on regular TV. I can wait a year. It's not that important to me.
LOL - you're my kind of winner
And they wonder why Kerry lost.
I was looking forward to "Meet the Fockers", that is until I heard they picked that awful (I think human) being - Babs. Now I will not see the movie in the theater or on video...
And one of the girls..I think it was Sarah..being an empath, would say: I sense you are angry...LOL..We knew that without ESP. When her plane got shot down she said: I sense I am going down...LOL
Well, I guess it's not that funny reading it..you'd have to see it :)
"I don't think Hollywood could have done more without alienating the middle of the country," Obst said.
Yes, what makes the casting couch alumni believe they have a divine right to provide political advice to the working families of america? Cameron Diaz is not qualified.
As a NY'er, let me remind you liberal pukes of something. First, New York State has 62 counties over 54,471 square miles. Of that, about 20 counties of 62 went Democratic, and many of them by not more than 60%. Roughly 81 square miles of NYC contiunes to be a black cancer on the 54,471 square miles of "Free" New York.
Please do us all a favor. When you build that bridge of yours, and you hit PA, keep going East for 8 hours until you hit NYC. We don't want you in Upstate. Hell, they don't even want you in Buffalo! You're not welcome here, and don't dare think that New York State is a "blue zone". You'd be better off if you could figure out a way to collectively jump into the Atlantic and Pacific and leave NY and CA to the rest of us who enjoy sanity.
no offense to anyone from Buffalo, I lived there for years.
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