[IronJack]

I've always suspected the reason why so many in Hollywood lean towards socialism is due simply to the shallow nature and lack of intelligence of most actors and actresses.

Let's face it, these people are NOT intellectual luminaries, by and large. Most of them are pretty faces, and not much more. Their profession makes no great demands on their brainpower. Thankfully.

Once they get an initial amount of fame, their obsessive need to be recognized and revered does not allow them to be satisfied by being know simply for their acting.

I think you've touched on an important aspect of their existence: guilt. They know that they are no better than anyone else, and that their elevated status is ill deserved. SO they try to prove their social worth by making inane comments on subjects about which they know nothing. That makes them easily maniuplated by the liberal power-brokers in Hollywood, and it validates their aggravated sense of ego. Just like the Kennedys, they know they don't deserve what they have, so they try to redeem their ill-gotten success by an inflated pretense of social conscience.

[Welsh Rabbit]

I think you've touched on an important aspect of their existence: guilt

Exactly. They make an obscene amount of money by doing what is essentially their hobby. They don't have a clue about making millions by working twenty hour days to launch a new business, or years of study and research to develop a revolutionary new concept that will improve life for all. And unlike professional athletes, there is no concrete scoring system to prove their worth (other than the box office, but that is fickle and fleeting, no matter what their acting abilities; they depend on others to choose their movies).