DENIED: Bigotry of the Obamatrons

Recently, at the office (a place I sometimes affectionately refer to as Obama Central), I made the mistake of printing out a Washington Post editorial that questioned the foreign policy expertise of our new Commander-in-Chief.  By the time I got to the printer to pick it up, someone else had already seen it - and stamped “DENIED” across the top of the page in red ink.  Next to that was scrawled, “RIGHT WINGER GO HOME.”

The first thing that went through my mind was: cross burnings.  The second was: children are evil (my workplace is overrun by hundreds of twentysomethings).

I tried to be rational.  Whoever defaced the page had no way of knowing who had printed it out – just as I had no idea who the defacer was – so it wasn’t personal.  Still, it was hurtful.

And it was bigoted.  The defacer didn’t know anything about me – my political affilitation, my sex, my race, nothing.  Die hard Democrats read mainstream editorials, don’t they?  So much for the good will of Dave Matthews’s “American Prayer” starring Idi Amin and Perez Hilton - and Michael Moore’s patronizing, post-Election email exhorting his followers to be kind to their Republican friends (as if they have any). (more…)

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Tags: Andrew Klavan, ann coulter, Barack Obama, bigotry, brainwashing
Posted May 4th 2009 at 12:34 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 11361416 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/05/04/denied-bigotry-of-the-obamatrons/DENIED%3A+Bigotry+of+the+Obamatrons2009-05-04+19%3A34%3A36Charles+Winecoff

Review: Andrew Klavan’s ‘The Last Thing I Remember’

The primary attraction to any Andrew Klavan novel is a well-constructed, breathlessly paced story that grabs hold within a paragraph and never lets you go. In this respect, Klavan’s a narcotics dealer, a deliverer of addictive, satisfying escapism created to transport you from reality — which in a way makes his latest thriller, “The Last Thing I Remember” a gateway drug for young adults.

Opening sentence: “Suddenly I woke up strapped to a chair.”

Strapped to that chair is Charlie West, a typically bright and motivated high school student who has no idea how he got there. The last thing he remembers is a good though unexceptional school day but nothing that connects to the where, how or why of his present and immediate circumstance. Not only has he been tortured, but voices in the hall have just decided to kill him … slowly.

From here Charlie will have to escape, out run and out-wit his deadly, resourceful captors and unravel what happened in-between scoring a first date with his dream girl and waking up in, well,  an Andrew Klavan page turner. The plot never stops moving or thickening and as the pieces come together, Charlie finds himself the only hope between … and that’s all you’re getting from me. (more…)

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Tags: "The Last Thing I Remember", adventure, Andrew Klavan, Charlie West, conformity
Posted Apr 27th 2009 at 6:47 am in Reviews | 117154No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/04/27/review-andrew-klavans-the-last-thing-i-remember/Review%3A+Andrew+Klavan%27s+%27The+Last+Thing+I+Remember%272009-04-27+13%3A47%3A47John+Nolte

Interview: Andrew Klavan on His Latest Thriller and Conservatives Creating Their Own Culture

Note: This is the second part of a two-part interview. Part one can be found here.

Big Hollywood:  Where did the idea for “The Last Thing I Remember” come from? I know there’s an evolution to a good story, well told. How did this evolve from that first spark to final draft?

Andrew Klavan: Some of it in this case was a matter of putting my money where my mouth is.  For years, I’ve been complaining that there are no books with real boys in them, that when we want to write about manhood or patriotism or battling evil, we suddenly have to write about fantasy lands and dragons or Gotham City or whatever.  There’s real evil in the world, real people who do real evil, and they need to be fought and there’s no appeasing them.  So I started from that point of view.  Let me just speak plainly about what we’re fighting for, what kind of people do the fighting and what they believe that empowers them and why.  And I guess it started from that.

BH:  I know the secret to your success is having your wife read everything first. Are you like me? Do you get angry at her criticism, especially when she’s right?

AK: LOL.  I know your wife, you have the sweetest wife on earth and shame on you for getting mad at that good, good woman when she’s only trying to help.  But yeah, I do exactly the same thing.  You know how it is.  We pour our hearts and souls into these things and at the point when we show them to our wives, we’re still raw with it, the wound is still bleeding.  And she says, “This is the greatest novel I’ve ever read but on page 116, you misspelled whirligig,” and you’re, like, “How dare you, you harridan!  Don’t you realize I’m an ARTIST???  I meant to spell it that way!!!”  Luckily, my wife knows I worship the ground she walks on.  (more…)

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Tags: "The Last Thing I Remember", Andrew Klavan, Charlie West, City Journal, political correctness
Posted Apr 23rd 2009 at 1:27 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 1125305 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/04/23/klavan-inteview-part-2/Interview%3A+Andrew+Klavan+on+His+Latest+Thriller+and+Conservatives+Creating+Their+Own+Culture2009-04-23+20%3A27%3A11John+Nolte

Interview: Andrew Klavan’s Latest Thriller Offers Teens a Genuine American Hero

Big Hollywood:  First off, thank you for doing this. When the opportunity to write “The Last Thing I Remember“ (available April 28th) came along, you told me about the motivation behind what the publisher and you wanted to do with what you’re calling “The Homelanders Series.” It’s a fascinating idea and about time.

Andrew Klavan: Well, to begin with, you know how much I love video games…  I wanted to write a story such that, if a kid had my book in one hand and a video game in the other, he’d choose the book-it’d be that exciting.  And Thomas Nelson publishers and I are offering a guarantee that if you start this story and aren’t completely swept away, John Nolte will personally come to your house and sing the entire screenplay of Hondo to the tune of “Fella with an Umbrella.”  So you can’t lose.  But of course, if you want to tell a story that cool, you can’t preach and you can’t hammer people with your point of view, so I decided, okay, I just want to change the rules of the game, that’s all.  Instead of the usual alienated teen, or the wimpy guy who finds a magical sword, I’m gonna make my hero the kind of hero I like to read about:  a manly guy who loves America, believes in God and is ready to fight for liberty if he has to.  I thought, in the current climate, that alone would be revolutionary. (more…)

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Tags: "The Last Thing I Remember", Andrew Klavan, Charlie West, Homelanders Series, Winston Churchill
Posted Apr 22nd 2009 at 1:37 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 1125142 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/04/22/klavan-interview-part-1/Interview%3A+Andrew+Klavan%27s+Latest+Thriller+Offers+Teens+a+Genuine+American+Hero2009-04-22+20%3A37%3A43John+Nolte

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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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Andrew Klavan, breitbart, Charles Winecoff, Dirk Benedict
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

Big Thanks: A Really Big Launch, A Really Big Tent, A Really Big Future

What an exhilarating week. Big Hollywood is finally up. Traffic is way better than expected.

Greg Gutfeld is posting his wondrous inanities and many pointed yet not vitriolic salvos have been launched against the intransigent Hollywood left and vital ones aimed at the right — for forfeiting culture to the opposition. Movie and television reviews and historical treatises abound, and we’re even breaking news.

John Ziegler launched a massive story where Sarah Palin unleashed on the media for treating her so unfairly. It is easily the mainstream news media story of the week. Big Hollywood is the site to go to for the inside scoop on Ziegler’s forthcoming documentary, “Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected“.

Actor-singer-songwriter Joe Lima in a timely fashion came to bury Guevara, but also put usually reliable director Steven Soderbergh in his place for wasting so much studio money and movie watchers’ time with the execrable, “Che.”

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Tags: Andrew Klavan, Ben Shapiro, big hollywood, bill whittle, Bill Willingham
Posted Jan 10th 2009 at 4:53 pm in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics, Reviews, Uncategorized | 1400576 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/01/10/big-thanks-a-really-big-launch-a-really-big-tent-a-really-big-future/Big+Thanks%3A+A+Really+Big+Launch%2C+A+Really+Big+Tent%2C+A+Really+Big+Future2009-01-11+00%3A53%3A59Andrew+Breitbart