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To: Cool Chick

I used to like Jodie Foster and her movies, well she will now join my list of don't pay to see!


2 posted on 09/23/2005 5:12:51 AM PDT by stockpirate (John Kerry & FBI files ==> http://www.freerepublic.com/~stockpirate/)
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To: stockpirate
...well she will now join my list of don't pay to see

My list is getting so long, I don't get to the movies much anymore. I did go see the penguins, because no penguins have pissed me off recently...

4 posted on 09/23/2005 5:18:52 AM PDT by gridlock (IF YOU'RE NOT CATCHING FLAK, YOU'RE NOT OVER THE TARGET...)
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To: stockpirate

What do you expect. She is just another hollywierdo.

Michael Medved:

"...I think the secret to both the Hollywood leftism and Hollywood's obsession with what they call "cutting edge material" comes from the same tendency among decision makers in Hollywood. These are terribly insecure people. They are people who want to look like and sound like tough guys, adventurers, rebels. Now I don't know if most people out there have a good sense of what Steven Spielberg is like, but Steven is not a macho man. If you have a good sense of what Michael Eisner or Jeffrey Katzenberg or any of these people are really like, they are not captains of the football team. These are guys who have to go some distance to show their he-man status. People in Hollywood will do that in one of two ways.

The most direct way is by using a lot of "F-words" in your conversation. One of the things that strikes me and it's very peculiar, is in Hollywood meetings among top executives, people will talk like stevedores. I don't think there is any other business in the country, with women present, in very public meetings, where people will be "F"ing this and "F"ing that and using the kind of language that of course that you could never ever use on the radio. So it naturally spills over into the movies and it has to do with this sort of prolonged adolescence in which guys want to show how tough they are.

The sort of rebellious leftist stand has to do with the same thing to some extent. They idea that, "Well, we may drive in limousines and have big houses in the hills, but we are really people of the street. We are in solidarity with the proletariat. We are ordinary folks". What's ironic is that Hollywood has gone in an Ivy League direction. Stars like JODIE FOSTER, Angela Bassett, Sigourney Weaver, Meryl Streep, Oliver Stone, -- all of those of those people are Yalies for example. The more that Hollywood has become a province for people who were born with privelege rather than the sort of shop girls and truck drivers who once busted their way into the business, the more it has tried to pretend, absurdly, that it is not an elite and corporate industry. The more guilty they feel about their status, the more desire they have to assuage that guilt with leftist pieties."

http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/medved.php


14 posted on 09/23/2005 5:54:28 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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