‘Thinking Big’: Breitbart Signs Book Deal With Hachette/Grand Central

From the New York Observer:

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Posted Nov 11th 2009 at 12:00 am in News | 2635504 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/11/11/thinking-big-breitbart-signs-book-deal-with-hachettegrand-central/%E2%80%98Thinking+Big%E2%80%99%3A+Breitbart+Signs+Book+Deal+With+Hachette%2FGrand+Central2009-11-11+08%3A00%3A34Andrew+Breitbart

‘Washington Post’ Endorses Plagiarism to Defend Obama

Yesterday, the White House announced that it was removing Alma Thomas’ plagiaristic piece “Watusi (Hard Edge)” from its walls.  The White House announced that the painting was moved “because it didn’t fit the space right.”  The Washington Post pointed out that posters at FreeRepublic.com had examined the similarity between “Watusi (Hard Edge)” and Henri Matisse’s “The Snail” (1953), ignoring the fact that Big Hollywood actually broke the story.  The Washington Post covered for the White House, explaining, “Stephens’s explanation makes sense because it is inconceivable that the White House’s art experts would imagine Thomas’s painting was fraudulent or a copy … Elaborations on earlier artists’ work, even full appropriation, have been common practice in art for hundreds of years.”  

Andrew Breitbart immediately emailed the author of the piece, Blake Gopnik, to point out that Big Hollywood had not been properly attributed on criticism of the piece.  Here’s Andrew’s email: 

“Ben Shapiro at Big Hollywood broke this story with a legitimate report. Not blog opinion. To credit Free Republic or conservative opinion sites is either bad journalism or… bad journalism. Even at Free Republic they cite Shapiro and Big Hollywood. The story was cited properly all over the Internet, why the Washington Post breach? We have been at the forefront of reporting on what the MSM won’t regarding this admin. We had the ACORN story, the NEA propaganda conference call. All hard news stories. And so is this. Shapiro is a Harvard law grad. He is hardly worthy of this kind of brush off. We’d like to see a correction as soon as possible.” 

And here is Gopnik’s response:   (more…)

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Posted Nov 6th 2009 at 11:49 am in Art, Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 259302123 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/11/06/washington-post-endorses-plagiarism-to-defend-obama/%27Washington+Post%27+Endorses+Plagiarism+to+Defend+Obama2009-11-06+19%3A49%3A26Ben+Shapiro

Note to Andrew Sullivan: Don’t Blame Breitbart For My Thought Crimes

Dear Andrew Sullivan,

Thank you for your Halloween Daily Dish in response to my Big Hollywood blog about the latest LGBT assault on Mormons.  We actually met once, briefly, at DC Pride, circa 1990.  I had never heard of you or The New Republic.  I do remember liking your accent.

More recently, about five years ago, I shot you an email to say thanks for a column you’d written about the threat of Islam to gays.  You sent a nice thank you back.  I’ve also admired your calling the hate crimes bill “boutique legislation” and urging your readers to stop sending checks to the Human Rights Campaign.

I appreciate the restraint of your posting, “A Gay Voice Against Marriage Equality,” though the title concerns me a little, as the last thing I want is for LGBTers to assume I am some kind of Anita Bryant (she was very active when I was coming out, and we don’t need a repeat of that).  Few things are as terrifying as the thought of becoming the object of gay fury (which I understand you’ve had some experience with).  It’s a sorry state of affairs when people within the gay community no longer feel they can speak freely without risking ostracism or threats.  I sometimes wonder if there should be a hate crimes bill to protect gay people from other gay people.

That said, there are a couple of points in your piece I’d like to address.

First, one does not have to ”search high and low” to find lesbians and gays who are suspicious of the cause formerly known as same-sex marriage.  Contrary to popular mythology, not all of us feel a pressing need for “marriage equality,” nor do we derive our self-worth from the state.  I know gay Californians who voted for Prop 8 last year because they sincerely believe it is in the best interest of children (some of whom will grow up to be gay), and of society as a whole (which includes gay people), to uphold the ideal of the man-woman nuclear family. (more…)

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Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 5:03 am in Culture, Featured Story, Politics | 256154179 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/11/05/note-to-andrew-sullivan-dont-blame-breitbart-for-my-thought-crimes/Note+to+Andrew+Sullivan%3A+Don%27t+Blame+Breitbart+For+My+Thought+Crimes2009-11-05+13%3A03%3A35Charles+Winecoff

Anguish of the Apostate: Second Thoughts Are Best

“Intellect loses its virtue when it ceases to seek truth and turns to the pursuit of political ends.” – Robert H. Bork 

In a “Big” way, Andrew Breitbart has injected into our modern cultural/media zeitgeist a foundational reminder of why it is so intellectually critical, even fun, to inspire and embrace the notion that “there’s nothing better than having convivial relations with people with whom you disagree.”

To that end, may I humbly share my own ideological apostasy and second thoughts that began in 1989. 

In that year, my oldest child was born and I found myself – as do many Los Angeles parents — driving around the city to various ‘play-dates’, supermarket excursions, pediatrician visits, and the 12-miles-distant playground of the ‘progressive’ pre-school where my wife and I intended to enroll our children. (I also began more closely scrutinizing and fearing the withholding taxes from my paycheck increasing the governmental intrusion into my young family).  (more…)

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Apostate, Howard Stern, Robert H. Bork, Rush Limbaugh
Posted Nov 1st 2009 at 6:41 am in Culture, Featured Story, Politics | 255550158 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abaldwin/2009/11/01/anguish-of-the-apostate-second-thoughts-are-best/Anguish+of+the+Apostate%3A+Second+Thoughts+Are+Best2009-11-01+13%3A41%3A22Adam+Baldwin

Breitbart Tribute to Ron Silver

Earlier this week, Andrew Breitbart paid tribute to the late Ron Silver at the Center for Security Policy’s Keeper of the Flame dinner.  Attendees included Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

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Andrew Breitbart: The C-Span Interview

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Introducing ‘For Conservative Movie Lovers’

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A thousand years ago in Cairo, surrounded by ancient pyramids and the ghosts of lost civilizations, the great Arab scientist Alhazen conducted a peculiar optical experiment. Building on observations made by Aristotle thirteen centuries earlier, he first constructed a room, one completely shuttered from the light of the outside world, as dark as death. He then cleverly lit the space around the room with an array of bright lamps. Finally, he punched a single pinhole into one wall, just large enough to let a small beam of lamplight bleed in.

Alhazen confirmed that if you entered such a room, and sat in the darkness until your eyes had ample time to adjust, and then followed the beam of light emanating from the pinhole to where it splashed onto the wall opposite, you would be privy to an amazing, almost magical sight. As you watched, shapes and colors would begin to coalesce. Familiar forms would appear. And eventually, when your eyes had acclimated enough, you would be staring at nothing less than an exact upside-down projection of the outside world, perfect in every detail. Alhazen marveled at this, and gave the experiment an evocative name: Al-Bayt al-Muthlim, translated by later scribes into Latin as camera obscura — The Veiled Chamber. (more…)

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Posted Oct 16th 2009 at 6:43 am in Classic Hollywood | 24541078 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2009/10/16/introducing-for-conservative-movie-lovers/Introducing+%27For+Conservative+Movie+Lovers%272009-10-16+13%3A43%3A44Leo+Grin

We Want You! Oct 10th: The Warriors Are Coming

WE WANT YOU! Want a chance to show your appreciation for those that have served our country? The opportunity is here. 

On Saturday, Oct. 10, more than 150 wounded heroes will complete a 7-day, 475-mile journey from San Francisco to LA. The Wounded Heroes, many home from Iraq and Afghanistan, are cycling down scenic Highway 1 from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Their goal is to raise awareness and money to provide bikes and equipment for mental and physical therapy for fellow military heroes. The final leg of this journey brings the riders down San Vicente Blvd. from 26th to the West LA VA. 

This is where you come in.  We are looking for everyone, You, your family, friends, community members, organizations, and congregations to come out and line San Vicente Blvd. all the way to the VA. Welcome home these brave men and women and cheer them on their final miles.  Special guest riders include James Cromwell, Adam Baldwin, Tobey Maguire, Mike Vogel, Patricia Heaton, David Hunt, Kristy Swanson, Adam Housley, and Andrew Breitbart.  (more…)

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Two Fish, One Barrel: Deconstructing Andrew Sullivan’s ‘The Breitbart Standard,’ Demolishing Conor Friedersdorf’s ‘The Right’s Lesser Media’

To which I respond to my unofficial biographer Conor Friedersdorf’s Daily Beast criticism of your’s truly and bigger fish Andrew Sullivan’s two-thumbs-up to it:                             

Andrew Sullivan (left) and Conor Friedersdorf

In the piece you link to and affirm in the Daily Beast, “The Right’s Lesser Press,” Conor Friedersdorf refuses to interview me as he continues to be my unofficial biographer. (I’m VERY reachable, Conor.) He writes opinion pieces on me purporting to be journalism. He doesn’t quote or cite me, he simply assumes and pushes the point of view he thinks I have and makes an argument based on these alleged positions. It’s sloppy and you, of all people, should know better.

Breitbart.com is MOSTLY a news aggregator. It carries the Associated Press, Reuters, even, Agence France Presse, from those dreaded croissant eaters!!!

It even carries the New York Times on its front page — a benefit that even Big Government and Big Hollywood don’t receive.

Big Hollywood is what it is: a counter-voice to the virtually monolithic Hollywood left. How dare I grant a platform, and a means for the defense of those in Hollywood who would dare go against the strident and intolerant Hollywood left.

Big Government, too, is providing an outlet for voices and ideas that are not proportionally represented in the traditional and mostly biased mainstream media.

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Tags: ACORN, acorn scandal, Agence France Presse, Andrew Breitbart, Andrew Sullivan
Posted Oct 6th 2009 at 1:35 pm in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 24146254 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/10/06/two-fish-one-barrel-deconstructing-andrew-sullivans-the-breitbart-standard-demolishing-conor-friedersdorfs-the-rights-lesser-media/Two+Fish%2C+One+Barrel%3A+Deconstructing+Andrew+Sullivan%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98The+Breitbart+Standard%2C%E2%80%99+Demolishing+Conor+Friedersdorf%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98The+Right%E2%80%99s+Lesser+Media%E2%80%992009-10-06+20%3A35%3A53Andrew+Breitbart

Using Arts for Conservative Purposes

Big Hollywood and Big Government have done tremendous work in recent weeks. They have proved without a doubt that the Obama administration and its allies have gone too far. They’ve crossed the line. Federal agencies are turned into propaganda tools. This is something we haven’t seen in the U.S. since, well, ever. This administration knows no shame. Everything is permissible in order to push its legislative agenda through the collective throat of the American people. And the MSM are covering it all up, refusing to spend time and attention to the ACORN scandal first and now the NEA scandal.

It’s a good thing there are conservatives willing to expose this administration for what it is.

President Obama and Kalpen Modi, Associate Director of the Office of Public Engagement

But the question is, what’s next? How can this be countered and how can the Obama administration be forced to back down? As it is, liberal groups, news organizations and individuals continue to cover up for the administration. Perhaps someone will be thrown under the bus again, but the thugs of Team Obama will remain in place and continue to “transform America.”

Exposing their tactics is necessary to fight them, but it’s not enough to actually beat them. Mr. Breitbart and team have learned that the tactics the left has used against conservatives for decades; to discredit them works wonders. But if conservatives want to take back the government, we have to copy the left’s organizing skills as well. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Andrew Breitbart, big government, big hollywood, breitbart
Posted Oct 5th 2009 at 6:08 pm in Art, Politics | 23267065 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mvandergalien/2009/10/05/using-arts-for-conservative-purposes/Using+Arts+for+Conservative+Purposes2009-10-06+01%3A08%3A50Michael+van+der+Galien

The NEA: Defending the Indefensible

It was so much fun watching the ACORN people try and spin their way out of oblivion for the last couple of weeks.  After the first video was posted on Big Government.com they, of course, claimed it was an isolated incident and that the filmmakers were kicked out of numerous other ACORN offices.  When that proved to be false, they tried in vain to claim that the videos were faked and that their employees were the victims of CGI or something and not of their own stupidity and corruption.  When that didn’t work they claimed that the filmmakers, Andrew Breitbart and the entire Fox News network were racist.  Yawn.

NEA’s Yosi Sergant

Monday, we have the NEA under the microscope.  The Obama Administration was caught red-handed (is that “racist”?) funneling tax payer dollars into an official propaganda department.  I can’t wait to see what the excuse will be this time.

These people have mastered the art of defending the indefensible.

Let’s set aside the stupidity of this move.  Anyone familiar with the NEA knows that it pretty much exists to fund leftist propaganda disguised as art.  Officially coordinating it is a bit redundant. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Aldo Raine, Andrew Breitbart, biggovernment.com, Cap and Trade
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 5:03 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 23072655 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/09/23/the-nea-defending-the-indefensible/The+NEA%3A+Defending+the+Indefensible2009-09-23+12%3A03%3A35Leigh+Scott

Limbaugh: White House Using Fed Arts Agency to Push Obama Agenda

From El Rushbo:

Do you remember that NEA phone call? I think it was back in August, the 21st or the 25th, and it featured basically a coordination from the White House to the National Endowment for the Arts to promote Obama’s health care and parts of his domestic agenda. One of the artists on that call got hold of Breitbart and said they’re turning the National Endowment for the Arts and www.Serve.gov, the latest website out of the White House, into political instruments, and there are four pieces written on this at BigGovernment.com. But all it really exposes up ’til now is that the NEA was lying about their coordination with the Obama White House on spreading propaganda. This is the thing that George Will had a comment on This Week, said some laws were broken in this call. Then after some attention was focused on this they announced that the National Endowment for the Arts director of communications Yosi Sargent had been reassigned. They said he was fired but he was actually just reassigned. (more…)

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, big government, Buffy Wicks, George Will, national endowment for the arts
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 4:00 pm in Art, Culture, News, Politics | 231842No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sullivan/2009/09/21/limbaugh-white-house-using-fed-arts-agency-to-push-obama-agenda/Limbaugh%3A+White+House+Using+Fed+Arts+Agency+to+Push+Obama+Agenda2009-09-21+23%3A00%3A35Sullivan

Tea Parties: Protesting Government Excess

Glenn Reynolds posted this traffic-cam pic from today’s Tea Party gathering in DC:

Glenn and Andrew Breitbart are both scheduled to speak at today’s Quincy, Illinois Tea Party. (more…)

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Posted Sep 12th 2009 at 8:32 am in Politics | 223654152 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/09/12/tea-parties-protesting-government-excess/Tea+Parties%3A+Protesting+Government+Excess2009-09-12+15%3A32%3A15Big+Hollywood

New Political Blog ‘Big Government’ Launches Thursday

FoxNews.com reports:

New Political Blog BigGovernment.com to Launch Thursday

A conservative blogger and publisher who took on Hollywood earlier this year is setting his sights on the nation’s political establishment.

BigGovernment.com will launch Thursday as a “one-stop shop” for commentary and other political information, according to Andrew Breitbart, the site’s founder.

“This is speaking to the zeitgeist of the blogosphere that every story has an underlying relationship to what’s going on in the Obama administration and how the Republican Party is going to regroup as it relates to issues of the expansion of government powers,” Breitbart told Foxnews.com. “We are just now starting to vet the president and the people he’s put into power.” (more…)

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Posted Sep 9th 2009 at 7:02 pm in News, Politics | 22121055 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/09/09/new-political-blog-big-government-launches-tomorrow/New+Political+Blog+%27Big+Government%27+Launches+Thursday2009-09-10+02%3A02%3A57Big+Hollywood

MTV: When Rush Says It, It’s ‘Graphic Detail’

MTV ran this headline today: ‘Rush Limbaugh Responds To Jay-Z’s ‘Off That’ In Graphic Detail’

A network’s that’s spent two decades lining its pockets selling vulgar sex to young people calling anything “graphic” is patently absurd. Here’s what Rush said on his show regarding rapper Jay-Z:

I’m now in a rap tune by the famous rapper Jay-Z. I would remind the rapper Jay-Z: Mr. Z, it is President Obama who wants to mandate circumcision.  We had that story yesterday; and that means if we need to save our penises from anybody, it’s Obama.  I did not know I was on anybody’s balls, either.

“Penises” and “balls” qualifies as “graphic detail”? For MTV? Rush is of course referencing the possibility the Obama administration will mandate circumcision for all baby boys.  But let us not forget Mr. Limbaugh’s quote is in response to a song where he’s asked to remove himself from The Jigga Man’s scrotum and testicles: (more…)

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Posted Aug 26th 2009 at 4:02 pm in Culture, Entertainment, Music | 212070131 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amarlow/2009/08/26/mtv-when-rush-says-it-its-%e2%80%98graphic-detail%e2%80%99/MTV%3A+When+Rush+Says+It%2C+It%27s+%E2%80%98Graphic+Detail%E2%80%99+2009-08-26+23%3A02%3A13Alexander+Marlow

The Narrative

Here’s a question for you: Why is Rodney King famous and Kenneth Gladney unknown? 

Here’s a better question: If Kenneth Gladney — a black American who was beaten when he went to protest ObamaCare — had been there instead to support President Obama and had been beaten up and called a nigger by Anti-Obama town hall protesters… [click image below to play video]

…Well, does anyone doubt he would have been as famous as Rodney King? Why is Kenneth Gladney ignored? And why did a black patriot who showed up in opposition to ObamaCare with an AR-15 have his face and hands edited out of the video that MSNBC used to create the belief that wild white mobs, enraged at the very idea of a black man in the White House, were waiting outside to lynch the “President of Color?”  (more…)

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Tags: "President of Color", Andrew Breitbart, Frankfurt School, Kenneth Gladney, MSNBC
Posted Aug 26th 2009 at 5:01 am in Featured Story, Politics, Video | 21151892 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bwhittle/2009/08/26/the-narrative/The+Narrative2009-08-26+12%3A01%3A26Bill+Whittle

Fishy

I’m doing standup in Denver. Shelley is driving me from radio to radio to TV as I do the monkey dance at each station promoting the show, selling tickets. I don’t like this part of the job. I must answer the same 10 questions about Saturday Night Live and try to explain where I’ve been for the last fifteen years. All the DJ’s want are some juicy stories about celebrities. I don’t really have that many. I’m booked at two political talk stations, a rock station, a country station, and two local TV shows.  I guess that’s my demographic! Everyone! I ask Shelley why I’m booked on the political stations. She shrugs, “Well, we didn’t really know…isn’t that what you are doing now?” The first stop I’m told is a “just right of center” show, so I feel free to share my newest shocking information that the White House is asking us to “snitch’” on our friends and family. To report anything “fishy.” This news is so abhorrent to me that I could barely sleep the night before. I immediately emailed Andrew Breitbart to see if it was true. He said yes. I searched the hotel computer web to see if the big shots, the smart people have gotten on this. They were just starting to fight back. The news was so new. Well, at least this administration is entertaining…in a bad way. I’m watching a horror movie every day.

As I share the shocking information that our Freedom of Speech is being attacked, the radio host across from me, his face, it looks like he just ate a lemon. It’s all scrunched up like…he hates me. He abruptly cuts me off and ends my interview. I’m stupefied at the reaction of people who “just can’t handle the truth.” My driver Shelley is a liberal. She doesn’t say anything. As we get in the car I try to apologize, “Well, he asked me why I was a new political activist.  I guess I should just tell jokes.” I mean I have been hired basically to sell tickets to a bar where people will spend lots of money on alcohol. And, I do need to make some money. My husband is a cop. (more…)

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Tags: "Unhappily Ever After", Andrew Breitbart, Beer Summit, Cornyn, Cornyn and Sekulow's letters
Posted Aug 10th 2009 at 12:25 pm in Featured Story, News, Politics | 203378144 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/08/10/fishy/Fishy2009-08-10+19%3A25%3A11Victoria+Jackson

The Frank Capra of Gen X Has Died

Iconic filmmaker John Hughes is dead of a heart attack at 59.

Anyone who came of age in the 80s and early 90s can’t help but remember the John Hughes era thanks to the many, many hours of warm, hilarious and unforgettable memories that sprung from the great man’s Midwestern mind.

John Hughes: 1950-2009

As producer, writer and director, Hughes created timeless stories that teenagers and parents alike will continue to discover a hundred years from now. Rich in universal theme, populated with lovable, relatable outcasts, and told by a creative genius who understood us and never talked down to us, John Hughes enjoyed nearly two decades of Hollywood success before retiring to private life in Chicago sometime in the 90s.

Long before today, we were missing John Hughes. (more…)

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, chicago, Christmas Vacation, Deat at 59. Some Kind of Wonderful, John Hughes
Posted Aug 6th 2009 at 3:35 pm in Classic Hollywood, Featured Story, News | 20131874 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/08/06/john-hughes-has-died/The+Frank+Capra+of+Gen+X+Has+Died2009-08-06+22%3A35%3A37Big+Hollywood

Do The Warhol—Part 1: The Business of Vision

Your correspondent, as absorbed by the Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky Street, Pittsburgh, PA.

A dance craze— like “freaking”— it is not, but rather, a point of view.

Back in January of this year, Andrew Breitbart announced “Big Hollywood’s modest objective: to change the entertainment industry”.  The announcement is as important as it is radical, assessing the power of Pop Culture in shaping global attitudes and standing athwart contemporary assaults on Western values, yelling, as did William Buckley in 1955, Stop.

Ask yourself: Is a vision of the world that is contrary in almost every way to the prevailing cultural paradigms a difficult “sell”?  Given this is always so, how is such a challenge overcome? (more…)

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Art, artists, classical liberals, Conservatives
Posted Jul 23rd 2009 at 6:56 am in Art, Classic Hollywood, Politics | 17912639 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sgraves/2009/07/23/do-the-warhol%e2%80%94-part-1-the-business-of-vision/Do+The+Warhol%E2%80%94Part+1%3A+The+Business+of+Vision+2009-07-23+13%3A56%3A47Scott+Graves

David Arquette: Making a Difference in a Box

Thursday night, the AP reported David Arquette, best known for the “Scream” franchise and for being Mr. Courtney Cox, is going to “live in a box to raise money for the hungry.” In typical Hollywood fashion, this stunt is trumped up, if not downright goofy. To sum it up, Snickers is sponsoring Arquette to sit in a cushy box in New York on Tuesday and Wednesday, eight hours per day, to raise hunger awareness. Consult facebook.com/snickers for more.

Apparently, the AP’s definition of “living” in a box is two eight-hour shifts over two days. Using that logic, I’ve lived at Peet’s Coffee in Westwood, the Mac store at The Grove, and Breitbart’s basement in the last month alone.

In a gesture of solidarity with America’s poor, Arquette’s Plexiglas abode will be furnished.

Their not-so-ambitious goal: to raise $250,000, probably the amount Arquette makes off royalties from “Scream” DVD rentals every Halloween. I bet it will cost at least that much just to promote the event. (more…)

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Tags: "Scream", "Snickers", Andrew Breitbart, AP, Charity Navigator
Posted Jul 11th 2009 at 10:47 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story | 18094295 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amarlow/2009/07/11/david-arquette-making-a-difference/David+Arquette%3A+Making+a+Difference+in+a+Box2009-07-11+17%3A47%3A32Alexander+Marlow

Live Troopathon Webcast 1pm – 9pm PST

Andrew Breitbart and Melanie Morgan host Troopathon 2009 live from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Help promote the #troopathon on twitter

Lists of guests here.  Donate here.  Jump in the comments!

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Posted Jun 25th 2009 at 1:04 pm in Military, Video | 1681542 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/06/25/live-troopathon-webcast-1pm-9pm-pst/Live+Troopathon+Webcast+1pm+-+9pm+PST2009-06-25+20%3A04%3A36Big+Hollywood

Chief Obama Defender Jon Stewart Takes on Breitbart

Breitbart response to come…

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Barack Obama, Daily Show, Glenn Beck, jon stewart
Posted Apr 8th 2009 at 10:08 am in News, Politics, Video | 100554189 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/04/08/chief-obama-defender-jon-stewart-takes-on-breitbart/Chief+Obama+Defender+Jon+Stewart+Takes+on+Breitbart2009-04-08+17%3A08%3A20Big+Hollywood

Adventures in the Scream Trade, Take One

If you’re wondering if I was about to opine on the craft of gut-twisting horror stories, you’d only be half right. I’m actually talking about real life here. As many of you may know from my earlier posts, I first flame-throwered onto the scene here at Big Hollywood about a month ago, on the occasion of Team Oscar’s could-not-be-more-ill-advised taking off for the unfriendly skies of Islamist Iran.

I knew they were going to get punked! They were going to Punkedville! In fact, I was so sure of it, I was the one who broke the story in the US off the French wires to Drudge and Nikki Finke.  One Hollywood Jihadi PR roadside bomb detonated. War Is Hell.

Look at their trip from my POV. I remember the whole balls-to-the-wall anti-Apartheid campaign from the mid-eighties. ‘I Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City,’ remember? By the way, wasn’t Little Stevie great in that video? Love him! Point being, if the racist South African apartheid regime was unworthy of cultural exchange, why was the gay-hanging, women-stoning, child-executing, blogger-killing, hostage-taking fascist regime in Iran worthy of a gold-plated Academy PR kiss? (more…)

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Posted Apr 6th 2009 at 5:58 am in Celebrity News, Entertainment, News, Politics | 9749410 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/04/06/adventures-in-the-scream-trade-take-one/Adventures+in+the+Scream+Trade%2C+Take+One2009-04-06+12%3A58%3A54John+T.+Simpson

Breitbart on ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’

Here’s the YouTube video from Andrew’s appearance last night on “Real Time” presented in three parts.

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Open Thread: Andrew Breitbart on ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’ — Tonight: 10pm EST/ 7pm PST

Big Hollywood’s own Andrew Breitbart is a guest tonight on HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher.” He’s joined by comedian Sarah Silverman, professor and author Michael Eric Dyson, and Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post.

The show begins at 10pm ET/ 7pm PT. Those of you with HBO jump on in and tell us what you think. Those of you without can get the latest here.

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Posted Mar 13th 2009 at 6:03 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 79422159 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/03/13/open-thread-andrew-breitbart-on-real-time-with-bill-maher-tonight-10pm-est-7pm-pst/Open+Thread%3A+Andrew+Breitbart+on+%27Real+Time+With+Bill+Maher%27+--+Tonight%3A+10pm+EST%2F+7pm+PST2009-03-14+01%3A03%3A32Big+Hollywood

Curses!

I write crime novels for a living. They are full of men—and other disreputable types—who talk like men talk and think in the words men think in. As a result of this, I frequently get letters from my fellow conservatives and fellow Christians that begin, “You call yourself a conservative,” or “You call yourself a Christian,” and then ask: “How can you write such filth?”

Now, not long ago, I was playing tennis—badly, as I sometimes do to counteract the rumors that I’m perfect in every way—and also because I suck—and with each new unforced error I would send up a furious shout of “Doggone it!” or “Rats!” My partner finally interrupted his serve and came to the net. “What is this?” he said, disgruntled. “I’ve read your novels. There’s no ‘Doggone it,’ in your novels. There’s no ‘Rats.’”

Sheepishly, I was forced to explain to him that I rarely use foul language in real life, and almost never in front of ladies, such as the ladies playing on the next court over. He seemed very disappointed.

This little incident came to mind the other day after the oddly lovable Andrew Breitbart posted here what he jokingly called Big Hollywood’s theme song, being Christian Bale’s despicable, bullying and obscenity-laced tirade against a Director of Photography—set brilliantly to a techno beat by some genius who calls himself RevoLucian. (more…)

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Christian Bale, Obscenity, Profanity, South park
Posted Feb 5th 2009 at 5:01 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story | 4152276 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/aklavan/2009/02/05/curses/Curses%212009-02-05+13%3A01%3A40Andrew+Klavan

LIVE-BLOGGING 24, Comments

In loving memory of Andrew’s youth, here we go…

Ok, so we’re late to the party.  What are you going to do, set up a perimeter?  This is the show I love, then love to hate, then actually hate, then come back to to see how much Kiefer’s drinking has wrinkled his face, because I also like to drink.  Every year, it seems that Jack Bauer, the most bad-ass little man since Wolverine had his chest waxed and grew 8 inches into Hugh Grant, makes choices that put those he loves just slightly ahead of national security. Everyone else who does this pays for it dearly, often with the perp walk….but not Jack…  SO FAR this season, Jack was compelled to come back from lovely Africa to face a Senate hearing about his…methods of interrogation.  CTU is no more (which is good, as it was the single most penetrable security organization in the United States), but when the FBI comes calling for Jack’s help, it isn’t long before the old gang gets back together.

First we find Tony Almeda, whom we like to call Schlumpy, for his round-shouldered sensitivity.  He’s rockin’ a goatee, still has amazing hair, and is apparently one of the bad guys…EXCEPT HE ISN’T ANYMORE!  Schlumpy is back with the angels, in the form of modern dance versions of Old Man Buchanan and The Scowl (Chloe).  The three of them are trying to save the world from super-secret evil that has infiltrated the U.S. Government, all paid for with African diamonds, which really helps in a recession.  It’s a hard job for 3 people…but now they have a 4th, and his name, is Jack Bauer.

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Posted Feb 2nd 2009 at 8:44 pm in Entertainment | 3952638 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jude/2009/02/02/24-time/LIVE-BLOGGING+24%2C+Comments2009-02-03+04%3A44%3A30Jude

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDREW BREITBART! + ‘24′ Live Blogging Tonight at 9pm PST

It’s true that what God gives, He also takes away, and Andrew’s legendary 20’s are now long gone. And I mean long. Gone. I know this because last night I was at a secret celebration in a secret location with people whose names rhyme with Karl Grove, George Boros, Bill Mates, Warren Muppet, the Dali Bama, Rush Scrimshaw, Steve Bobs and other Masters-Of-The-Universe, as they welcomed Andrew into their fold.

Now that he’s a media titan, doesn’t it behoove us all to wish him a Happy Birthday – and to really mean it?  I’m kidding, of course – Andrew is the greatest, the center of a million friends, and I know you’ll join me in hoping this is the best year of his life. (more…)

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Posted Feb 2nd 2009 at 9:36 am in Entertainment | 3867061 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jude/2009/02/02/happy-birthday-andrew-breitbart-24-live-blogging/HAPPY+BIRTHDAY+ANDREW+BREITBART%21+%2B+%2724%27+Live+Blogging+Tonight+at+9pm+PST2009-02-02+17%3A36%3A34Jude

Week #2 Thanks

The big tent that is Big Hollywood got much larger this week. I can’t thank the contributors and the readers enough for the amazing work. I live for refreshing the comments on each post because of the quality of the thought going into all aspects of the site.

Commenters, please keep writing in your own names (and linking to your personal web sites/blogs), if you can. It has helped to keep up the quality.

The media highlight of the week was Rush Limbaugh reading and riffing on Andrew Klavan’s, “Why We Fight.” The most poignant and righteous post was clearly Charles Winecoff’s, “The Awakening of a Dumb (Gay) American.” The comments tell us everything we know about the truth about tolerance on the right. And the lie about tolerance on the left. I am extraordinarily proud to call Charles a patriot, an ally and a friend. (more…)

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Posted Jan 17th 2009 at 11:31 am in Featured Story, News, Uncategorized | 2247384 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/01/17/week-2-thanks/Week+%232+Thanks2009-01-17+19%3A31%3A04Andrew+Breitbart

Andrew Breitbart, Reason’s Matt Welch and Adrian Moore Discuss Politics and Culture in Obama’s America

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At Reason Goes Hollywood, Reason magazine’s 40th anniversary bash held November 14-15, 2008 in Los Angeles, Reason magazine Editor in Chief Matt Welch led a discussion with Reason Foundation Vice President of Research Adrian Moore and Big Hollywood’s Andrew Breitbart about what’s next in politics and culture in Obama’s America. Approximately 60 minutes.

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Posted Jan 12th 2009 at 2:05 pm in Media Criticism, News, Politics, Video | 164614 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ngillespie/2009/01/12/andrew-breitbart-reasons-matt-welch-and-adrian-moore-discuss-politics-and-culture-in-obamas-america/Andrew+Breitbart%2C+Reason%27s+Matt+Welch+and+Adrian+Moore+Discuss+Politics+and+Culture+in+Obama%27s+America+2009-01-12+22%3A05%3A18Nick+Gillespie