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When visitors and tourists come to Los Angeles, no doubt they make it a point to see the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The glitz, the glamor … the notorious rep? A new survey calls the iconic Walk the “Worst Tourist Attraction in the World.” KCAL9’s Hermela Aregawi went to the Walk of Fame to find out why it’s become, well, infamous. She found people from the world over who said, yes, the walk gets crowded sometimes but the people she spoke to mostly gave it high marks.

Hollywood’s portrayal of astronaut Neil Armstrong in the biopic “First Man” was quick to elicit the attention on Friday of aviation legend Gen. Chuck Yeager. Social media platforms lit up before the weekend as news spread that Ryan Gosling’s latest film does not include the American flag being planted on the moon. Critics fretted that “First Man” would essentially turn Mr. Armstrong into a progressive caricature when Mr. Yeager, 95, weighed in. “Ryan Gosling is coming out with the movie First Man where it portrays Neil Armstrong as a liberal progressive anti-Trump (in spirit) non-flag waiver,” a user identified as...

Movie “First Man” on Moon Landing Omits US Flag and Fact that Buzz Aldrin Took Communion Before Exiting Lunar Module by Jim Hoft August 31, 2018 145 Comments Hollywood Whitewashes America and Jesus Christ from Propaganda Movie on Moon Landing —

The producers of the film 'First Man' PURPOSELY omit the US Flag. Well then. Time to take a knee and let the producers and studio know why - No Old Glory, no revenue.

...just more of the same anti-American crap.... The late Neil Armstrong’s 1969 trip to the moon may have been “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” but it was also a massive achievement for the United States. One of Armstrong’s first orders of business was to proudly plant the American flag, after all. But Ryan Gosling, the Canadian actor who plays Armstrong in “First Man,” Hollywood’s rendition of the moon landing, told the Telegraph the magic moment was intentionally omitted from the big screen because Armstrong’s achievement “transcended countries and borders.” ...More at link:

Five Oscar nominees in the foreign-language film category released a statement ahead of the awards show condemning "the climate of fanaticism and nationalism in the U.S." — a statement that is likely the first of many political comments expected during Sunday's Academy Awards. The group said it would dedicate the Oscar of whichever film wins to those working toward unity, and the films' directors said they reject the borders symbolically defining their category. "We believe there is no best country, best gender, best religion or best color. We want this award to stand as a symbol of unity between nations...

Actor Bryan Cranston says he will “definitely move” out of the United States if Republican Donald Trump wins the presidential election. “Absolutely,” Cranston told The Bestseller Experiment podcast when asked if he’d take an extended vacation to Vancouver if Trump wins. “I would definitely move. It’s not real to me that that would happen. I hope to God it won’t.” A constant critic of the GOP White House hopeful, Cranston has called Trump a “narcissist” who lacks the “qualities we want in a president.” In a promo for an upcoming appearance on BBC’s Newsnight, Cranston predicted Trump will lose the...

(BELOW IS THE MOST VOMIT-INDUCING PART OF THE STORY) Sean also paid tribute to South-African-born Charlize in a speech he made before auctioning off a Jeff Koons sculpture made out of 67 guns he previously owned. 'I'm a self-proclaimed Alpha male who owns 67 firearms,' he told the star-studded audience. 'But I've had my mind changed about guns by a strong woman, a beautiful South African woman. 'I don't need these cowardly instruments of violence and destruction, none of us do.'

Berlin (dpa) - Actors Catherine Zeta-Jones and Antonio Banderas at the presentation of their latest film on Sunday in Berlin expressed their concerns about the government of U.S. President George W. Bush. Banderas openly criticized the U.S. government, saying it had done its job very poorly. The price for Bush's policies would be enormous not only for the U.S., he said, but for the rest of the world. Zeta-Jones also stated her dissatisfaction with the current U.S. administration.

'COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF' SUTHERLAND: BUSH WILL DESTROY OUR LIVES Choking back tears, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF star Donald Sutherland warned this week: President Bush "will destroy our lives!" The star of the new ABC drama, which follows the first woman President of the United States, lashed out at the real White House during a dramatic sit down interview with the BBC. Sutherland ripped Bush and his administration for the war and Hurricane Katrina fallout. "They were inept. The were inadequate to the task, and they lied," Sutherland charged. "And they were insulting, and they were vindictive. And they were heartless. They did not care. They...

"There isn't anything in me that wants to replicate," he says. "I believe in all of those things in a way, but I don't necessarily think it has to be from my loins."

Everything is wrong with ABC's new show, "Commander in Chief." It's not just that the show about the first female President is a weekly hour-long campaign commercial for Hillary Clinton. It's not just that conservatives are mean and evil on this propaganda hour. It's that this is what a female President will be like as brought to you by Oprah and the women of "Desperate Housewives"--and the legions of female fans who love them. Do you want them picking the leader of the free world? I don't. Here's why. Every presidential election year, Harvard's Shorenstein Center conducts 26 polls. Each...

Three groups representing flight attendants are calling for a boycott of the box-office hit "Flightplan." In the Jodie Foster thriller about a mother looking for her missing daughter aboard a plane, a flight attendant colludes with an air marshal as part of a plot to extort a ransom from the airline. Other flight attendants are shown treating passengers rudely and being unsympathetic to Foster's character, whom they think might be delusional.

The electorate might not be ready for a female President, but TV viewers sure are. Tuesday's premiere of Commander in Chief, starring Geena Davis as the titular White House honcho, scored the night's highest poll numbers, averaging 16.4 million viewers in the 9 p.m. hour, per Nielsen Media Research. ABC spinmeisters say those numbers make Commander in Chief the most watched drama series debut on a Tuesday night in five years. It also helped ABC win a very competitive contest. The night, particularly the 9-10 p.m. bloc, is shaping up to be a key ratings battleground. While Commander in Chief...

Movie theater revenues are down 10% in the past three years because of home video technology and because movie quality has objectively continued to decline. We Freepers occasionally review a movie here for fun and to warn others not to waste their money. So, for a change of pace, let's discuss really bad movies we've seen for one reason or another. I propose three classes of bad movie: Class 1. A bad movie you sit through because of peer pressure Class 2. A really bad movie you force yourself to watch because, darn it, you paid for it! Class 3....

Variety has published a report on both the all star casting for the 'Dallas' adaptation and Casino Royale, the 21st James Bond installment.New Regency's big screen version of 'Dallas' isn't officially expected to announce casting until Sacha Gervasi turns in the rewrite, but many big name actors have already shown interest in doing the project. Speculation now has John Travolta in the lead role of JR Ewing, but sources close to the film say that this isn't certain. Mel Gibson has not completely ruled out the job, Kevin Costner has shown reluctance until he sees the rewrite and Tommy Lee...

ABC insiders deny there's any connection between real-life presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and their new TV show "Commander in Chief" - where Geena Davis makes her debut tonight as America's first woman president. But it turns out the show's lead writer is a longtime Clinton campaign insider who held a top job in Hillary's press office. "Writer Steve Cohen used to work for her in the 1990s, serving as the then-first lady's deputy communications director," reports the Village Voice. "I have no doubt she is capable, qualified, and ready to be the president of the United States should she choose...

THE "COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF" AIN'T HILLARY by Mia T, 9.27.05       ecause ABC is part of the permanent clinton agitprop, because the show's head writer is a veteran of clinton campaigns and hillary's press office, because the show is perfectly timed to sufficiently desensitize the electorate by 2008 to the notion of a woman president, because of all of these things, one would not have expected "Commander-in-Chief "Mackenzie Allen to be modeled after... Condoleezza Rice. But she is. President Allen is idealistic, is accomplished in her own right, does not crave power, has a nonpartisan streak, is an intellectual,...

Eisner signs off with a low-key farewell Speech marks end of Mouse House tenure By MICHAEL SCHNEIDER Eisner spoke of the future, but not his own, at the HRTS luncheon. Call Michael Eisner the anti-Cher: While most aging icons' farewell tours are loud, frenzied and never-ending, the Walt Disney CEO seems determined to go out like a lamb. Of course, no one expected Eisner to turn his firstHollywood Radio and TV Society luncheon into a nostalgia fest, or for him to tell out-of-school tales about certain litigious ex-colleagues. But addressing the crowd Tuesday at the HRTS' first Newsmaker Luncheon of...

Air America, the liberal radio counterpart to Rush Limbaugh, is now asking its listeners to send in money, leading some analysts to say the network is "crumbling." The network, featuring voices including Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo, has developed a program where people become "associate" members by contributing cash.