Posted on 02/15/2003 7:09:24 AM PST by aculeus
Also defined as Barbara Scheissand, Julia Ruderts, Mike Fairyll and Martin Preen.
And the truth comes out. Thank you, Dr. Freud.
Folks, it has little to do with W and Iraq. Clooney's anger is at Hollywood. He's aggravated at the dumbing down of the industry, the appeal to the lowest common denominator. He's obviously intensely frustrated that his career has ground to a halt and his creative aspirations have been blocked. What he's discovered is that being the world's sexiest man and a big star only go so far when you ain't paying the bills for the show, only acting in the show. In the end, you gotta say the lines they give you, and do the movie they want, the way the want it. He found out he's just the hired help, a few steps up from the caterer. Reality hits hard.
So he takes it out on W because he probably does disagree with the war, and it's yet another thing he feels is out of his control. Only in this case, he can publicly lash out with impunity (or so he thinks) whereas with Hollywood, publicly lambasting the people he needs for his next role eliminates the next role and the one after that.
Till now, of course. Now he has publicly lambasted them, and don't think for a minute it's going to go unnoticed. No doubt he's said as much already to certain people which is why he is in disfavor. Fortunately for him, there's a healthy direct-to-video market out there.
It seems to me that the actors who are making the most anti-war noise are the ones whose careers have taken a downturn or are tanking outright and they're trying to get some attention.
Susan Sarandon: hasn't had a decent role in a movie since 1999. She's only been doing cameos, voices in cartoons, and narrations in TV shows. She has plenty of time to be a screaming liberal activist and hang out with Rosie O'Donut at anti-gun rallies because her Hollywood career is tanking.
Alec Baldwin: hasn't had a decent movie role since at least 1997. IMDB Movie Guide is listing all of his TV narrations, cartoon voices, cameos, and Saturday Night Live appearances because that's all he's done in the last 7 years.
Sean Penn: hasn't had a decent movie role since 1998. He's currently trying to pass himself off as a director since nobody's asked him to act in a legitimate movie in at least 5 years. If it weren't for cameos and cartoon voices, this guy wouldn't have a career at all.
Dustin Hoffman: hasn't had a decent movie role since 1999. He's done 4 or 5 movies in the last two years. I haven't seen them, but the IMDB Movie Guide has reviewed them as being boring predictable genre pieces that are mediocre at best and are barely noteworthy. His last 4 movies have all lost money. His biggest role was one where he played a cross-dresser. With the exception of Rain Man, I've never understood Dustin's popularity.
Michael Moore: Became famous by filming a movie with a camcorder that made it to the big screen and hasn't done anything of substance since. His last movie promoting gun control is going over like a lead balloon. With 2 film credits and about a dozen TV show appearances, Moore is not a legitimate filmmaker or actor. The liberal media carries his dumb ass because he's a raving liberal.
Madonna: her movie roles have always been terrible and her last movie sets a new standard for tanking badly. Her last few albums have not done well. She's doing anything she can for attention. She won't leave Hollywood until she's dragged away kicking and screaming. Hollywood and the music industry continues to carry Madonna and she's been allowed to keep her celebrity status for now although nobody is extending her any real work opportunities.
George Clooney: last two movies sucked, it's been at least 3 years since he's done anything noteworthy. He's panicking because he can't get any good roles and his popularity is taking a bad nosedive. While perusing George's photos of public appearances, I noticed that he always looks drunk and/or stoned.
Ah, so that's why he's popping up in all the shows lately. Well, at least two that I've seen recently.
THANK YOU! (bowing to lorrainer)
what would we ladies do without you??
Too bad so many other celebrities have stepped backwards. It is the height of arrogance to insult their fans, insult their values, travel overseas to trash our country, and then expect their careers to not take a hit. A lot of celebrities are squealing about their rights to free speech and that it's okay to dissent on govt. policy because they're getting hammered by the public. Fine, they have the right to say that stuff. But we also have the right to say their actions stink and not go to see their movies. Most celebrities think that free speech is a one-way street. Wrong, with those rights come responsibilities. They're crying like babies because they're actually being held accountable. Too bad.
Some man...
When was the last time Clooney crawled into an F-4 phantom, and flew supersonic?
Bush was a helluva pilot, and had the best proficiency record in his Texas ANG unit. Having worked with fighter pilots my hat goes off to them. Takes a lot of courage to crawl into a fighter, and knock around the wild blue yonder.
I don't think Clooney has any idea what courage is all about.
Then Clooney comes out and say "there are no good movies anymore, and no good tv shows on anymore.
What's the matter George, can't get work these days?...
An overblown, spoiled, ego centric baby.
My first graders have better manners than Georgie boy!
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