I don't really care who Steven Spielberg votes for. If he makes great movies, and isn't an a**hole, I'll go see them.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/starr082298.htm
Further details about Clinton's testimony emerged on the same day that the president's legal defense fund announced it has raised $2.2 million in the last six months, more than was collected during the previous four years of his presidency combined. The newly reconstituted defense fund, operating with looser rules about who can give and how much they can offer, tapped into resentment against Starr as more than 17,000 Clinton supporters sent money.
Hollywood was quick to come to the president's aid. Among the 62 donors giving the maximum $10,000 were performers and directors such as Tom Hanks, Barbra Streisand, Michael Douglas, Ron Howard, Norman Lear, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw-Spielberg as well as studio executives Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen, Harvey Weinstein and Bud Yorkin.
"We believe that no first family should face such a horrendous financial burden while trying to carry out the work which the American people elected him to do," said David Pryor, the former Democratic senator and Clinton friend from Arkansas who founded the legal fund.
I'll check out the movie soon enough. A friend of mine just called me from Houston to comment on his take of the movie. He didn't care for the film, noting it was quite possibly the worst he has seen in a while (and he sees a lot of movies). I got the impression that he was caught up on the logical aspects of what happened and that really ruined the film for him. I wasn't sure I followed him, but he noted something to the effect that he didn't understand why an advance civilization with the means to conquer other worlds would chose to take over ours using tripods that have been buried beneath the Earth for a million years. Again, I'll see them movie anyway. And perhaps, having read your take, with a different mindset.