Castro Spies on Hollywood Celebrities

NewsMax.com ^ | April 9, 2005 | Humberto Fontova

[RayChuang88]

"Fidel Castro is a genius!" gushed Jack Nicholson after a visit with the Cuban Fuhrer in 1998. "We spoke about everything," the actor rhapsodized further. "Castro is a humanist like President Clinton. Cuba is simply a paradise!"

Jack Nicholson has been saying such things for years now. Many of his Hollywood cohorts follow suit. Francis Ford Coppola, Kevin Costner, Steven Spielberg, Woody Harrelson, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Leo DiCaprio, Chevy Chase and Robert Redford, among many others, have all waxed euphoric on Castro and his island prison.

While holding up the book "Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant" on his TV show recently, Bill O'Reilly called these celebs "Hollywood pinheads."

But there might be more to these celebrity plugs for a tyrant who jailed more of his subjects than did Hitler or Stalin than the usual celebrity vacuity upstairs.

[leadpenny]

BLEEP! I hate it when I read these things, I always found Nicholson's movies entertaining.

Bump your comment.

Come on Jack, just make good movies.

[Casloy]

does Fidel Castro have the capability to blackmail Hollywood stars so they will have to support Castro's views anyway.

Naaah, they are too stupid to be blackmailed. Easier to just give them a Potemkin tour and let the ignorance flow from their lips naturally.

[endthematrix]

Re: Hollywood boycott

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1346660/posts?q=1&&page=51

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1346660/posts

[RayChuang88]

Are you telling me that Fidal Castro get National Enquiror in Cuba LOL!

But think of the possibility of causing a PR debacle for a Hollywood celebrity going to Cuba and suddenly a sex tape of their escapades in a Cuban hotel room ends up in the hands of American Media Company (the parent company of the National Enquirer). It could put a major kibosh on that celebrity's career....

[softwarecreator]

Thanks for the links.

[Focault's Pendulum]

They're ACTORS, folks.......NOT a genius among them...

There is genius among them....albeit, not on the worldwide stage. The talent is amazing, yet misdirected.

Trust me on this....I was once one of them.

[fortunecookie]

Great tag line! You took the words right out of my mouth! I was thinking this same thing as I read the article and posted something like it on a thread about Sean Penn, my 'Sean Penn' challenge, to go and live like the peasants in a commie country for just a week, if he could take it. Yep, it's soooo John Kerry - 'this is a paradise, it will be wonderful for you and I will be your leader'.

[Borges]

Why on earth would Castro think any conceivable depravity would be a threat to the popularity of these vacuous degenerates and the mentally challenegd morons who patronize their films?

Try painting with an even broader brush? Not everyone who loves movies fits your insulting description.

[Borges]

Actually Coppola and Spielberg are geniuses. Of course they aren't actors. :-)

[Jan171781]

Sorry if you felt insulted by my statement. While many movies do not fit the category I implied, I stand by my statement with regards to the overwhelming barrage of material generated by Hollywood and the people employed there.

They, in general, project cultural values which are antithetical to traditional American ones and are incompatible with traditional Judaeo-Christian values.
Most unfortunately, these values have become more and more prevalent and acceptable in society at large, and I presonally feel Hollywood has contributed to that.

Based on the popularity of some of Hollywood's most outstanding degenerates, it hardly appears that my statement, when viewed as a generalization, can be refuted.

[Borges]

American films are one of this country's greatest cultural achievements. Readily able to be put beside American Literature or American music. There's good and bad in any profession. And at any given time the bad and mediocre outnumbers the good. that's just the way it is. From my experience most people who say what you say 1. Don't regard film making as an art form. and 2. Don't go to many movies.

[lilmsdangrus]

bump for later

[Ax]

There was a Puerto Rican lady who worked for me at the U.S. Mission in Havana in the mid-90s. She was as anti-Castro as they come. She told us one morning that after dinner and a couple of mojitos, she took off all her clothes and danced around her room at the Hotel Nacional, knowing full well that she was being filmed and recorded. She was middle-aged and "full-figured."

[Jan171781]

I agree that movies can be an art form.

"Gone with the Wind", "The Ten Commandments", "The Last of the Mohegans", "Glory", "The Mask of Zorro", "Saving Private Ryan", "Band of Brothers", "The Last Samurai", "High Noon", "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy", "Master and Commander" are some of my favorites.

But the pure sex and violence flicks or movies like "Silence of the Lambs", "Halloween 7", etc. - garbage.

[Borges]

Halloween 7 eh? :-) It's funny you mention it since the original 'Halloween' was pure suspense with minimal onscreen violence. But I wouldn't call 'Silence of the Lambs' pure 'sex and violence'. There was a lot more going on there. It was rather overrated though.