Well, that’s what it seems like on the outside to those closest to him (which would basically just consist of his mother). Dig a little deeper, and you find out that Bobby’s actual profession is that of a pickpocket, and his boss is a man who his late father owed $500,000 in gambling debt. Now, Bobby is slowly paying it off by working for him as an elusive street thief.

Oh, and the beautiful women? Well, one of them is three months pregnant and runs into Bobby. That becomes the central conflict of this hidden gem, available now via Video on Demand. Well, and the fact that Lt. Sullivan (Michael Madsen) is doing everything in his power to catch Bobby on account of the fact that Bobby got a little too greedy and pick pocketed his badge.

“Loosies” works mostly due to a strong and very likable script (which Facinelli wrote). The film gives us real characters with real reasons to dislike them, but what drives the film is how the actors and script show show us small details about each character that are positive. We want everything to be OK.

These characters are so different, yet their paths interconnect, bringing us a very unusual and entertaining film. Lt. Sullivan belongs in a Dirty Harry movie, while Bobby actually probably belongs in “Wall Street” (someone say “Wall Street 3?” On second thought, don’t), and Gallo’s eccentric boss just belongs in an eccentric Gallo movie, I suppose.

Each actor brings something unique to the script. They make the film interesting and drive it along. The script helps because it moves at a fast pace but never uses false gimmicks and Hollywood clichés to drive the plot forward. It simply tells us a story, and that should be fine with anyone who enjoyed old Hollywood before the new one rode in with a vengeance.

The film’s second half is its strongest and also one that conservatives will particularly enjoy. After finding out that Lucy (Jaimie Alexander) is pregnant, Bobby decides to just get rid of it. So, being the upstanding gent that he is, he offers to pay for an abortion and personally take her (which leads to some great scenes when Bobby can’t enter his home to get the money on account of scary Madsen being staked outside).

After finally convincing her, Bobby takes her to the clinic. He takes a strong look around. He sees another young couple and it hits him. It’s a baby, his baby. It’s not some stray dog. Thus, the film grows a heart and Bobby grows some old-school machismo.

In a world of “Transformers” and “Pirates of the Caribbean,” it’s nice to see an artist like Facinelli, best known for his work in the “Twilight” series, want to tell a real story with real characters and real hardships. The film isn’t great, but it has moments of greatness because of the fantastic performances by everyone all around. Facinelli is great in the lead role. He’s never showy and performs Bobby’s growth as a character perfectly.

Alexander has old-school charisma and steals every scene she’s in. Madsen fits perfectly into his role and Gallo, as usual, adds layers upon layers onto his character. By the end of it all, it may be hard to figure out whether Jax was truly evil or not. The direction by Michael Corrente is also impressive. The film may clearly be low budget, but the lighting and the way he focuses his camera gives great detail to the picture and adds a moodiness that wouldn’t have been there without it.

“Loosies” is not a masterpiece, but it is a solid piece of cinema. Forget the gimmicks, forget the clichés. Just sit back and enjoy a great story that will tug you along from start to finish all while entertaining you and leaving you with some food for thought, which is more than most movies today can say.

Sunday’s episode of TWD left me with a bad taste in my mouth. For one, it took the band of survivors (henceforth, “the Gang”) for a stroll down a series of pulse-deadening subplots that I imagine did things like “develop characters” and “heighten drama” and “purge the crap out of some emotions” without involving any, you know, actual zombies. Nary a flesh feast to be seen in 45 minutes.

And while the conspicuous dearth of shotguns being primed for battle disappointed a blood-and-guts zombie aficionado like myself, it was something else that frustrated me most about the episode.

It shouldn’t be news to Big Hollywood readers that television writers are people of the left. If it is news to you, then you’ve got some catching up to do, Rip.

The writers of TWD are no different, and they have been quick to let us know that throughout the show via this season’s suicidal gun policy and the overriding caricaturing of conservatives (on a side note, this caricaturing extends even to the show’s “webisode” mini-series, as seen here and here).

In the show’s latest episode, Important Character Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) struggles with the unexpected news of her impregnation (by her husband’s best friend, in a soapy twist). And while having to fidget through a maternal crisis was bad enough for those of us out in Viewerland who tune in primarily for moments like these, it became even less bearable when the writers co-opted the subplot primarily to talk about… abortion.

It all started subtly enough — so subtly that I imagine viewers of the non-political stripe missed it completely.

Not long into the episode, the Gang’s thoughtful proxy-liberal geriatric, Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn), confronts Hershel (Scott Wilson), a Colonel Sanders-type and the thoughtful proxy-conservative geriatric of the Gang’s charmingly Southern host family. As it turns out, the host family was—in true Faulknerian fashion—covering up a secret, keeping undead relatives (Attack of the In-laws!) locked in their barn. Dale wanted to know why, and the conversation that unfolded was strangely analogous to the fetal personhood debate…with zombies! It went something like this:

BUCKET HAT: With all due respect…I’ve seen people that I cared about die and come back, and they’re not people.

COLONEL SANDERS: My wife and stepson are in that barn. They’re people.

Although this exchange set off klaxon sirens in my well-conditioned, hair-trigger political mind, it wouldn’t have been particularly noteworthy had the balance of the episode not been devoted to Lori’s pained decision about whether or not to abort her pregnancy.

Since the lion’s share of the episode was about Lori’s dilemma, I feel my inference is well grounded. I find it illuminating that the writers chose zombies as a parallel to human fetuses (and not only because many proponents of abortion see the fetus primarily as a parasite, although that certainly adds another layer of interesting to the equation). Dale is, after all, the rational arguer in this case. In the zombie survival genre, zombies are distinctly the Other, not human persons. Hershel, then, is the ill-informed, emotional arguer. I think it’s clear that the writers view the abortion debate as divided along similar lines.

The abortion issue becomes more explicit later in the episode, with all the caring, supporting characters (Glenn, Rick, et. al.) of course affirming Lori’s right to choice. By comparison, the only expressly pro-life character, Maggie (Laurie Cohan), does nothing but scream at Lori about her selfishness and “abortion pills.”

I’m disappointed by this thoroughly unbalanced portrayal from a show that continues to unspool into dramatic clichés and political gotchas. And to think, all I asked for was a few split skulls.

Author’s note: Interestingly enough, some other politically-minded souls have charged TWD with just the opposite—as being “extreme” and “surprisingly conservative” in its handling of abortion. Thoughts?

In an interview on the Catholic cable channel EWTN, Estevez joked about the horror of making the pitch for this movie about a pilgrimage – no massive special effects, no parade of gore or bedroom scenes with nudity. It’s just an old man hiking across Spain with three people he meets along the way. It’s a small movie, made on a small budget. It’s about our humanity and our spirituality. It’s so easy to imagine Tinseltown’s eyes glazing over.

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But what Estevez said in that interview was still striking. “Hollywood is a very difficult place to be earnest and be heartfelt. And I am not interested in making films that are anything but. There’s a lot of vulgarity in films. There’s a lot of violence, casual sex – things that make me uncomfortable watching – and I’m not interested in perpetuating that message.”  …

Here’s how “The Way” unfolds. Sheen’s character, California ophthalmologist Tom Avery, is a widower who’s been angry at his son’s decision to forego a graduate degree to wander the world. While Avery’s out on the golf course, a French policeman calls to tell him his son has died in a storm in the Pyrenees. When Avery arrives to identify the body, the policeman tells him about the “camino,” and he resolves to travel the route with his son’s cremated remains. On this very long walk, he finds companionship with a burly Dutchman who wants to lose weight, an Irish writer with writer’s block, and a bitter Canadian woman trying to quit smoking – and ultimately rediscovers his lost faith.

The movie is beautiful travelogue of the sites along the route, from mountain vistas to beautiful old cathedrals. It’s a great backdrop for a subtle human story. After the Canadian woman cynically suggestes Sheen’s character is there to march on a self-absorbed baby-boomer journey to a James Taylor soundtrack, she’s embarrassed to learn the truth. Later she admits her own dark troubles. She was a battered wife and is haunted by an abortion she underwent because she didn’t want her husband to have two females to brutalize. She says she can hear her daughter’s voice. Estevez explained, “We give voice to the unborn, and again, that is another thing Hollywood doesn’t necesssarily celebrate.”

Full piece here. Below is an interview Estevez did withLaura Ingraham:

America’s increasingly far Left academia has always been “nudging” its way into power. The first great, 20^th Century landmark for these “enlightened despots”, as Voltaire described them, came when a professor of the ordinarily Left-leaning Harvard University, Dr. Henry Kissinger, found his way into the Oval Office of Republican President Richard Nixon.

The not-so-good-doctor seemed to have literally crawled inside the soul of this undeniably insecure but ingeniously manipulative politician, also known as Tricky Dick. Their administration, as we know, came to a rather disgraceful end.

However, Red China’s oldest American friend, Henry Kissinger, knows that his influence from deep connections with Beijing is now as strong as it ever was.

Why?

His “kind”, his “fraternity” from Harvard and the University of Chicago are back!

Above you see a decidedly self-confident, Presidential manipulator, Barack Obama, surrounded by two of his favorite academicians, Samantha Power and Cass Sunstein.

Rumor has it that all three would like Israel chastened if not utterly obliterated.

That, of course, is a rather crude estimate of the true intentions that might be gleaned from these glib geniuses.

These three are, however, the “enlightened” of the same “Progressively” despotic feather as Henry Kissinger.

How so?

They have clearly “broken away” from traditional “givens” or accepted points of view within the Judeo-Christian Civilization, and, as “fellow travelers”, seek an increasingly Marxist and “fundamentally New World Order transformation” of not merely the United States but the world and humanity as a whole.

That, in brief, is a definition of what Dr. Kissinger really meant by his infamously tested “real politik”.

The “Great Nudge” which this trio wishes to inflict upon all of America is best explained here.

The author, Benjamin Wallace-Wells, has a kind of Pulitzer Prize thoroughness in his efforts to explain both Sunstein’s transformative approach to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and Sunstein’s involvement in such intentionally misty complexities as the carbon-emission threat to the environment.

The dreamy-eyed exchange between Obama and Sunstein, however, could very well support Sunstein’s certainty about human error and foibles.

The Socialist Objectives of the Obama Nation must, as Rahm Emanuel has pointed out, not only exploit all crises but make human weakness a permanent corner of the Sunstein equation for “Fundamental Change”.

My immediate observation, of course, is the moral oblivion which the Supreme Court hurtled all of America into with the Roe v Wade decision legalizing abortion.

America’s somnambulant response to legalized murder for the 38 years of Roe v Wade’s existence is quite a revelation of weakness on a homicidal level. This American weakness for legalized abortion, of course, is precisely what Cass Sunstein and indeed the entire Obama Nation see as something to build on.

What I call America’s moral blindness is, for the Obama Nation, the very open door through which they can administer a blitzkrieg “transformation of the United States”.

If Americans cannot see the cold-blooded murder involved in abortion, then what other legislation might the Czars of the Obama Nation slip by not only Congress but the American people as well?

Here, from the NY Times article, is a peek into the Sunstein team’s optimism about their “fundamental transformation of the United States of America:

“ …. in the real world, Sunstein and Thaler argue, people are subject to all sorts of biases and quirks. They also argue that this human quality, which some would call irrationality, can be predicted and — this is the controversial part — that if the social environment can be changed, people might be nudged into more rational behavior.”

Glenn Beck, of course, has been “all over” the Sunstein Agenda. “The most dangerous guy out there” is how Beck describes Sunstein.

Nudging the human race, America particularly, into decisions that “just must be made.”

The “Nudge” routine would almost be the “hook” for a situation comedy script if the Obama Nation weren’t also engaged in fiercer tactics and connected to organizations with violent reputations.

These “fellow travelers” in power need their “back-up”, a “fist” to go with an open hand and, of course, being “fellow travelers” they cannot depend yet upon the armed forces of their still-backward and unenlightened nation.

They say they will need a “citizen army”.

When you connect such a concept to worldwide Marxist affiliations and the International Communist Party, you have an ideological police force of the world.

What does Samantha Power’s “Responsibility to Protect” really mean if she and her “fellow travelers” are actually protecting not people but ideology?

What stands most formidably in the way of a Marxist ideology? The entire, millenniums-old, Judeo-Christian Civilization.

Judeo-Christianity is no longer an ideology. It is a two to five thousand year-old fact. That is certainly one thing that both Hitler and Stalin shared in common: their main enemy ended up being, yes, the entire Judeo-Christian Civilization. Rather than conquering Israel and Rome, both Nazism and Stalinism have been eternally branded as tyrannies.

Why does The Progressive New World Order think it has a better chance than Fascism and Soviet Communism did?

Will no one will see Karl Marx behind The New World Order’s increasingly Iron Curtain?

That would be like not seeing Henry Kissinger trying to hide behind Michelle Obama.

Both Kissinger and Marx have grown too fat and too famous for that.

Are the Marxist Trinity of Obama, Power and Sunstein fully aware of how influential the Holy Bible has, can and will be for centuries to come?

No, I don’t think so.

Somehow the entire, worldwide “Progressive” Movement feels that Karl Marx’s analysis of Judeo-Christianity as “yesterday’s news” will more than suffice to insure Nikita Khrushchev’s prophecy that Communism will “bury” America.

Of course, with the “Progressive” help of Americans in the White House, a great deal of damage to America and Americans can, indeed, be done.

Already has been inflicted actually.

The “back-up” or, as I prefer to call it, “the eternal fist” of the Judeo-Christian Civilization and its Holy Bible, however, will prove tenaciously un-burnable if not literally indestructible, both in History and in the hearts, minds and souls of the human race.

Marx’s Communist Manifesto, the likes of SEIU, the Black Panthers, the Progressive Trinity of Obama, Power and Sunstein, plus their Citizen Army? Will this be sufficient to erase America, let alone Communism’s most successful enemy, the Catholic Church? The Far Left’s hope is to invade and “nudge”, invade and “nudge”, invade and “nudge”? No one has ever liked a “Nudge” for that long.

As for the imperious dreams of Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Zedong?

Red China is looking awfully strong these days.

However, the Judeo-Christian Civilization has so invaded and “nudged” the Communist Chinese that … well … their extravaganzas now look like a Radio City Music Hall creation in a film by Busby Berkeley.

Who “nudges” more successfully?

The Progressive/Communist Elite?

Or what the Reds call “American Cultural Imperialism”?

My money is on The Rockettes.

As for what the ladies playing all those mandolins are sitting on?

Is it the mysterious Orient or Shimsi of Las Vegas?

The Three Wizards of the Obama Nation have the same magic act. Their defiance of economic and historical reality is mesmerizing. How do they get away with it? Marxist smoke and mirrors … and the intellectual likes of Maynard Keynes to declare it reality.

Check the debate out here in continuing chapters.

What do Progressives amount to?

Marxists with a Keynesian mask who increasingly win the Nobel Prize. Why? The Nobel Prize Committee are Marxist Magicians as well.

No one knows “Marxist Magic” more profoundly nor with more serpentine slime to grease the wheels with than Cass Sunstein.

Four more years of the Obama Nation and America is no longer America. By 2016 Obama’s fundamentally Marxist “transformation of the United States” will have been “nudged”, “pushes”, “shoved” and “forced” into place.

It is everything that Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin have dreaded.

The Free World Resistance to the Progressive New World Order is Sarah Palin’s inheritance. May God sweep her into the White House for 8 years and then Allen West for another 8. It will take at least sixteen, traditionally American years for the United States to disenthrall most of the human race from Marxist Magic.

Big Hollywood has a fairly young audience so I don’t think the pluses and minuses of old age would much interest them. However, my self-appointed assignment here as Sarah Palin’s guard dog has brought me more than a few black comedy dramas as the toothless Rottweiler I am. The attack dog’s “growl” within me starts the second I hear or see anyone looking down on the former governor of Alaska.

Why?

I’m a survivor of parents who chose to have not just one but two abortions.

Learning about abortion at the age of 9 automatically enlists you in the Survivor’s Guilt Club. Toss in an ugly divorce and you have a domestic war zone with two, indelibly damaged “Survivors”, my sister and I. Add “Children of Alcoholics” and, well, we have a play by Eugene O’Neill and August Strindberg, plus Freud’s Oedipal theories running riot in a young artist farmed off at 11 years of age to Prep-School-As-A-Safe-Zone.

Further dramatic details of my upbringing are peppered through my memoir, The Haunted Heaven, available, chapter by chapter, at enterstageright.com.

I have, however, made it into my 71st year and am quite proud of the few achievements that have adorned my life and, thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous, I have made peace with my ten lost years as a drunk in Canada.

Though Sarah Palin is my heroine; Trig, her son, is my hero. I have always, for whatever reason or another, felt what Trig will most certainly be made to feel: “permanently challenged.”

One RCMP up here, after questioning me following a nasty, barroom ambush by four young punks that almost killed me, told my friend, “Michael Moriarty is the loneliest man I ever met.”

Hmmm … not sure that’s true anymore, now that I’m almost eight years sober.

It was true then, however.

A drunk fearlessness had driven me involuntarily suicidal. I always knew how to find the “bullies” in the room and I’d just go there and stare ‘em down. One set of them turned me into a basketball.

I’m reclusive now and have never been happier in my life. The few times I do go out, it’s with friends I trust and they’re there to stand between me and the curious who might just turn out to be closet thugs looking for a fight.

I meet such personalities occasionally in the comment section of Big Hollywood. I can usually ignore them.

If, however, they look down on Sarah Palin, I instantly become The Toothless Rottweiler!

Trig’s alive because of Sarah Palin and her husband and, in a spiritual sense, so am I.

I remember foolishly assuming that I was the child my parents wanted. It was somehow fed me that even two children, my sister and I, were considered one too many and one of us was the object of a failed abortion attempt.

That questionable privilege, I thought, wasn’t mine until a dinner in New York with my father brought my desirability on earth under profound question.

“I don’t remember whether it was you or your sister that we really didn’t want.”

I’m laughing now, showing all the gaps in my teeth proudly. Liberated rage, you know.

I survived my parents! If I can survive them, I can survive almost anything or anyone.

Trig survived because of his parents! No two people on earth are more heroic for me than Mr. and Mrs. Palin.

Add on to that the disparaging, elitist attitudes Sarah Palin has endured as a Vice-Presidential Candidate and still deals with subsequently and with divine grace?

Mrs. Palin is Saint Sarah for me.

The same diabolical calls for abortion that ensued upon Trig’s conception were echoed in the perversely feminist labels the Progressives plastered on Sarah Palin for being the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate. The thicker the flying mud aimed at Sarah Palin, the nobler, stronger and more beautiful she becomes in my eyes. If the rest of America knew what I know about being the survivor of abortion, they’d feel about Sarah Palin as I do.

America is now the truly endangered Big Baby. If the truth be known, she has been aborting herself ever since the Roe v Wade Decision in 1973.

Drunk on the privileges of Capitalist Democracy, she, yes, America, happily allowed the United States Supreme Court to duplicate the same act of surgical inhumanity they did when they legalized slavery with the Dred Scott Decision.

America has, for 38 years, silently and hypocritically applauded the Roe v Wade Decision legalizing the murder of gestating infants.

“Inalienable right to life?!”

Yeah, right.

I write angry editorials, send them in to my editor, John Nolte. Sleep on them and then e-mail John to cancel. Something by then he already knows to do.

Some of my articles, in the end, looked as toothless to me as my mouth.

They say George Washington had a rather unreliable set of dentures.

I haven’t investigated such an appliance yet. There are still a few teeth left in my head.

When I do go looking for a new set of teeth, though, and, after finding them, I have a shining set of “Pearlies” to blind you with? By then I’ll have a few concerts of my music to attend and you’ll see me there with a possible tan from my yearly stay in Italy, looking like the gorgeous has-been I am.

Yes. Only the performance of my music by a respected American orchestra will bring me back to America.

That and Sarah Palin’s Second Inauguration Ceremony as President of the United States!

George Washington will have had nothing on us!!!

These elements make up the work of the prophetically fictional movie, Gates of Hell by Molotov Mitchell and Illuminati Pictures.  I’m not going to go into much of what the movie entails. I’ll let the trailers give you an idea and here’s a link to the synopsis  

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I will tell you the movie has a hardcore approach in support of the pro-life issue — that approach being in the form of black militants that wreak havoc on abortionists. The movie is also causing a bit of a stir, but it’s not really the liberals and pro-abortionist who are attacking the project, it’s pro-life conservatives! 

Why? 

Children have been aborted in the millions, which means a lot of abortions are getting past the efforts of pro-lifers. I’m not trying to be contentious, but an effective means to promote the pro-life issue has been wanting. This film is a different tactic; hit the pop culture where they live.  It’s a volatile subject and some people aren’t interested in dealing with it. Though a lot of people see abortion as wrong, they don’t want to interfere with someone else’s choice. They would prefer to avoid the conflict and keep that opinion to themselves as they don’t want to deal with the wrath of the selfish who value their right to choose over the right to life. 

Pro-lifers are afraid the left-wingers are going to use this movie to back their assertions that the right is just a bunch of extremists who blow up abortion clinics (which, thankfully, doesn’t happen often enough to even form a U.S. statistic). But it will only backfire if liberals give any attention to this movie…

1. The movie reveals the statistics pointing to the genocidal campaign waged by the Left, which is damning to both the abortion industry and Democrats. 

2. The Left complaining about a movie where a bunch of angry black men run around with guns would be a first. The entertainment industry has made gazillions off this portrayal and loves it as long as black men are pointing those guns at each other. Well, this time blacks have turned those guns away from each other and turned them against the abortion industry.

3. Though a single person murdered over political discourse is one too many, we dare the left to try to call us out on our fictional violence with their true-life record. Virtually every assassination, whether attempted or successful, has been carried out by left wingers. Though I am ashamed to point out the violence exacted by pro-life zealots, they represent a drop in the bucket compared to the violence exacted by the Left.

This movie is not about promoting violence against the abortion industry. Rather, it points out the violence the abortion industry has brought to us.

Furthermore, this film will not hurt the pro-life movement, but how some pro-lifers react to it is another issue. For example, whenever I speak on abortion I pretty much always point to the agenda of Democrats, Margaret Sanger and the genocidal campaign still carried out by Planned Parenthood. I point to the millions of black children who have been killed by Planned Parenthood. Unfortunately, I sometimes get responses from white conservatives saying, “White children get killed by Planned Parenthood too.” To those white conservatives I would say that you obviously don’t pay much attention to my work. I don’t have a chip on my shoulder, and I do not support anybody that has a chip on their shoulder about racism. 

My point is that Republicans have a golden opportunity to turn the racist history of Democrats back on them. Show the black community that you care about their right to LIFE, and show who has been trying to deny them their inalienable rights granted by God.

“Gates of Hell” is about that bigger picture.

Mainstream Hollywood rarely tackles the subject of abortion, and when it does, it’s usually when a character quietly opts not to have one. But two new independently financed movies — a small-town mystery and a psychological thriller — are bringing an emphatically anti-abortion slant to the hot-button issue.

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“Doonby,” a $2-million film backed by an anonymous financier, tells the story of a mysterious drifter played by John Schneider (Bo Duke from “The Dukes of Hazzard”) who quickly makes himself indispensable to a small Texas town. The secret of Doonby’s past lies in the only person in town he doesn’t like — a gynecologist named Dr. Cyrus Reaper (Martin Sheen’s brother Joe Estevez).

Meanwhile, “The Life Zone,” a $1-million thriller written by New Jersey Republican State Senate candidate Kenneth Del Vecchio, follows three pregnant women who have been abducted from abortion clinics and are being forced to carry their babies to term by a shadowy jailer (Robert Loggia) and a barren female physician named Dr. Wise (Blanche Baker, perhaps best known as the older sister in “Sixteen Candles”).

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Both films have supernatural themes and a third-act twist that conveys an anti-abortion moral. Neither of them yet has theatrical distribution.

“The clear message I’m sending as the filmmaker is that abortion is evil,” said Del Vecchio, who is also a lawyer, former judge and an author of legal books and novels. “Generally speaking, filmmakers, executives and actors hold very liberal points of view and this isn’t a topic that’s of interest to them. But I don’t care what Hollywood thinks.” 

Read the full piece here.

A subplot in an upcoming film,a psychological thriller called Doonby, involves an unmarried woman during the 1960s who seeks a doctor to end her inconvenient pregnancy — and an elderly woman who tries to talk her out of it.

The role of the older woman is pivotal, and director Peter Mackenzie wanted to cast someone with the gravitas to deliver anti-abortion dialogue without being preachy. So last year, over lunch at a restaurant in tiny Smithville, Texas, he persuaded one of the most controversial living Americans to play the role, despite the fact she had never acted before. Her name: Norma McCorvey — aka Jane Roe, the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade.

“I thought she encapsulated American thinking on the issue,” says Mackenzie, a British filmmaker who also wrote Doonby. The niche title tackles abortion head-on, taking place in modern times but with significant flashbacks to an era when illegal abortions were conducted in back alleys. The filmmakers know they’ve created something controversial but maintain it is apolitical — a position that will be a tough sell beyond pro-life circles.

But plenty of small movies have turned a profit by wooing narrow demographics. The Kids Are All Right, with its appeal to gays and lesbians, was made for $4 million and earned $21 million at the domestic box office; Facing the Giants targeted Christians and earned $10 million on a $100,000 budget; and Sideways appealed first to wine aficionados and took in $72 million on a $16 million budget. Political films can be less forgiving, though. An American Carol was a money-loser, for example, and the jury is still out on Atlas Shrugged: Part 1, both of which chased right-wingers.

Doonby – planned for September release, though no distributor is attached — stars John Schneider as a drifter and Robert Davi and Joe Estevez[.]

Much more here.

Watch the trailer, as introduced by star Robert Davi, here. Website is here.

The play, written by a Notre Dame grad, recently took to stage at the University of Delaware. The dialogue includes a gal asking Christ: “Did you ever say, ‘I’m Jesus, and I say that stupid girls who let guys talk them into going to the back seat of their cars have to have babies?’ Did you say that ever?”

“No,” Jesus replies.

“All you talk about is, be nice to each other!” the teenager continues. “You never said nobody’s allowed to have an abortion.”

The fictional Jesus confirms her assertion.

“So can I? Can I? Can I?” she asks.

“Honestly, I — I don’t really have an issue with it,” Jesus tells her.

Honestly?

Honestly. Rather than uplift and challenge, the hallmark of great art, this just seems to bring Jesus down to our broken level. Where’s the hope in that

Read the full piece at NRO.

A lady named Lori, writing over at Feministing blog, says she just attended a panel on “transfeminism,” where one speaker says we should stop thinking of abortion as a women’s issue.

Okay!

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Let’s hear more!

Lori writes:

The thing is, it’s not just women that have abortions. Trans men have abortions. Gender queer people have abortions. Two spirit people have abortions. People who do not fit into the box of ‘woman’ have abortions. This is the reality we live in, and the more we pretend otherwise, the more dangerous it is for other people, and the more they are excluded by the movement.

This concept, she explains, will strengthen ” our reproductive justice work.”

Yep, “reproductive justice work.”

Sometimes I think they just pull random words out of the dictionary.

Sorry, vagionary.

It goes on:

It’s in that assumption that gender lives in our crotches, that we end up erasing the reality that men can have abortions, men can get pregnant and give birth. So I’m pledging, right here and now, to stop framing the issue of abortion access as one that’s unique to women. I hope you will too!

Oh, I will!

See, gender politics is all about your own subjective identity transcending the dictates of biology. seriously, why does one have to be pregnant at all, to have an abortion?

That’s just wombist.

Anyway, the bottom line is, it’s way more fun to talk gender, than really talk about abortion.

In China, years of population engineering, including abortion of ’surplus’ girls, has led to a creepy absence of females.

Which is really exclusionary if you ask me.

And if you disagree, you’re a racist, homophobic wombophobe.

Tonight’s guests:

Jedidiah Bila

Krystal Ball

Ryan Reese

Bill Rasmussen