NBC’s ObamaVision: Green Week and Lousy Writing

NBC gives new meaning to the phrase “green screen” next week, spreading a pro-environmental message across five of its prime-time entertainment programs – AP News.

When Arthur Miller wrote “The Crucible” it was rightly seen as a brilliant allegory to the House Un-American Activities Committee.  It was a brilliant piece of drama about the Salem Witch Trials of the late 17th Century with obvious corollaries to the political climate of post-World War II America.  And no matter where you fall on the political spectrum you must recognize the play as a classic in the canon of American drama.

My admiration for much of Miller’s work gives me enough confidence to say that he would view the current efforts to ham-handedly inject political statements into television sitcoms as absolute crap.  It takes a deft hand to send a message without it seeming like you are sending a message… and the writers of “The Office” and “30 Rock,” as glib as they may be, are no “Arthur Millers”.

I love “The Office.”  I’m one of those apostates who actually like the U.S. version better than the original (must be my knee-jerk patriotism at work).  But I saw my very first example of lousy (and I mean REALLY lousy) writing this season when they tried to force the issue of “Volunteer-ism” into the storyline. (more…)

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Posted Nov 17th 2009 at 2:13 pm in Politics, Theatre | 26219031 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/11/17/nbcs-obamavision-green-week-and-lousy-writing/NBC%27s+ObamaVision%3A+Green+Week+and+Lousy+Writing2009-11-17+22%3A13%3A49Stage+Right

‘Sesame Street’: It’s About My Children, Not the Puppet

Just as I suspected, it has happened.  They are trying to “Falwell” me and my colleagues here at Big Hollywood for raising concerns about “Sesame Street’s” description of Fox News as “Trashy.” We are “stupid,” “idiotic” and we are whining and pathetic (impressive debate tactics there, Mr. Socrates).  And, according to PBS’ own Ombudsman, Michael Gelter, we are….  right:

I don’t know what was in the head of the producers, but my guess is that this was one of those parodies that was too good to resist. But it should have been resisted. Broadcasters can tell parents whatever they think of Fox or any other network, but you shouldn’t do it through the kids

I was planning on letting the issue die after being romanced by Media Matters, but I noticed something fascinating.  I’ve written here about a lot of subjects.  Mostly about theatre and the arts, and I also defended that “racist-fascist” Rush Limbaugh,  but, never has a post of mine gotten the kind of hate-filled comments this one did.  Also, for the first time I started receiving hate e-mails… the long, rambling, Holden Caufield kind of e-mails (you can forgive me for feeling a little “Grouchy”).  What gives?  Why was this post different? (more…)

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Tags: big hollywood, Fox News, free to be you and me, holden caufield, Media Matters
Posted Nov 6th 2009 at 1:49 pm in Culture, Television | 25944687 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/11/06/sesame-street-its-about-my-children-not-the-puppet/%27Sesame+Street%27%3A+It%27s+About+My+Children%2C+Not+the+Puppet2009-11-06+21%3A49%3A58Stage+Right

‘L.A. Times’ Writer Slams ‘Anti-Hollywood Crowd’ With Everything But Facts

The other day, the L.A. Times’ Patrick Goldstein responded to this post of mine with a beauty of a headline: 

“New Muhammad biopic drives the anti-Hollywood crowd nuts” 

You know, sometimes you just have to put politics aside and take a moment to admire the tactics of your opponents, because no matter how you slice it, that is one gorgeous humdinger of a headline.

At a glance, the headline intentionally furthers the whole “conservatives are intolerant” narrative with the inference that I somehow have a problem with a big-budget biopic about the prophet Muhammad. Later in his piece, Goldstein doubles down on that smear with this:

But as usual, the news has aroused a storm of derision from conservative bloggers, who always find a way to be offended by any high-minded Hollywood project.

Odd… Especially when the very first sentence – the opening line — of my piece says the exact opposite: (more…)

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Tags: big hollywood, L.A. Times, Muhammad biopic, Patrick Goldstein
Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 6:43 am in Film, Media Criticism, Religion | 257582105 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/05/l-a-times-criticizes-big-hollywood-with-everything-but-facts/%27L.A.+Times%27+Writer+Slams+%27Anti-Hollywood+Crowd%27+With+Everything+But+Facts2009-11-05+14%3A43%3A58John+Nolte

Andrew Breitbart: The C-Span Interview

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Posted Oct 22nd 2009 at 5:50 pm in Culture, Politics, Video | 25125819 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/10/22/andrew-breitbart-the-c-span-interview/Andrew+Breitbart%3A+The+C-Span+Interview2009-10-23+00%3A50%3A17Big+Hollywood

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

Adam McKay, Care to Debate Health Care Reform?

Dear Adam,

We’ve gone back and forth this week, with me writing here at Big Hollywood and you Tweeting responses. The lastest from @GhostPanther came directly to @Wilson_Michael and you asked me a question. I have an answer, but I think there’s a better way to have this conversation. And that’s what this should be… a conversation that takes place within the arena of ideas.

Adam McKay

This is important stuff and I’m fascinated by how two fellow Americans can see the world so differently. We probably both think we believe in freedom and liberty. We likely both think that we should take care of the poor. I know we both believe everyone should get the very best health care possible. How we get there while keeping our nation free is up for debate.

So let’s do it. Let’s have the debate. I challenge you to debate me on health care reform. (more…)

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Tags: adam mckay, big hollywood, health care, Huffington Post, ObamaCare
Posted Oct 6th 2009 at 5:03 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 23932231 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mwilson/2009/10/06/an-open-letter-to-adam-mckay/Adam+McKay%2C+Care+to+Debate+Health+Care+Reform%3F2009-10-06+12%3A03%3A08Michael+Wilson

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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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

Artists and Their Marching Orders

My old Communist girlfriend was an exotically beautiful actress whose parents had emigrated from Russia and settled in New York City. Nola went to Party meetings and kept up with the correct way to think and behave by reading The Daily Worker. This was back in the fifties. In those days, the bulldog edition of the next morning’s Times, Tribune, News, Mirror and even the Worker would appear at the news stand on the corner of Seventh Avenue and Forty Second Street shortly before midnight. Actors, anxious to read tomorrows review of the latest Broadway play would be waiting there, along with entertainers curious to see if they’d made it into Walter Winchell in the Mirror or Ed Sullivan in the News.

Beautiful Nola was anxious to read the review of the new Off-Broadway show she’d just opened in. The Times and Trib would be covering it but Nola wanted to see what The Daily Worker had to say. Her face fell when she read it. The play was a socially relevant drama, of course, about the struggles of the Negro. She had chosen a dazzling white suit for her wardrobe. The critic said that this was unconscious racism on her part. She had, in fact, picked the suit because it made her boobs look good.  (more…)

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Tags: big hollywood, Moscow, new york, orson bean, Propaganda
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 5:03 am in Art, Culture, Politics | 22985864 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/obean/2009/09/21/artists-and-their-marching-orders/Artists+and+Their+Marching+Orders2009-09-21+12%3A03%3A49Orson+Bean

Big Government Honors Thug Rapper

A key objective, if not the objective of the Big Hollywood blog is to illustrate that pop culture drives politics and not the other way around.  Sometimes that case makes itself.  Take a look at this AP article:

Rapper Pitbull, whose chart-climbing songs have made him a bilingual favorite, was honored Wednesday with the key to Miami—an accomplishment he said officially cemented his title as “Mr. 305.”…

The Cuban-American performer and Miami native, whose real name is Armando Christian Perez, was presented with the key by Miami Commissioner Thomas Regalado during the morning ceremony.

“Pitbull not only lives in Miami, but he’s been traveling the country and the world sharing a positive message of Miami,” Regalado announced. “So, we should honor not only the dignitaries that visit, but those individuals who make a positive impact on the city.”

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Tags: Beyonce, big hollywood, Black Eyed Peas, Joe the Biden, Ludacris
Posted Aug 21st 2009 at 4:42 pm in Celebrity News, Culture | 20955462 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amarlow/2009/08/21/city-of-miami-celebrate-thug-rapper/Big+Government+Honors+Thug+Rapper2009-08-21+23%3A42%3A45Alexander+Marlow

Big Hollywood Enters the Twitterverse

Is that the right word, “Twitterverse?”

Actually we’ve been up on Twitter for a few months now but our tech guy wouldn’t let me near it until I proved I could set my VCR clock. (more…)

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Posted Aug 5th 2009 at 4:42 pm in News | 20083018 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/08/05/big-hollywood-enters-the-twitterverse/Big+Hollywood+Enters+the+Twitterverse2009-08-05+23%3A42%3A18John+Nolte

Happy .5 Birthday to Us and Thank You to All of You

Big Hollywood celebrates its six month anniversary this week and everyone here at Breitbart Central Command would like to thank all of you who have made this half year an exhilarating and fulfilling success.

First off, many, many thanks to the readers, especially those who contribute to the lively and engaging community on the comment boards. You have made this site addictive long after the regular content’s been consumed.

But nothing would be possible without the generosity and talent of our growing family of writers. For six months we’ve been blessed with some of the best content anywhere — thoughtful, articulate, persuasive, lively, witty, passionate, respectful, informed content. This site was created as your forum but in exchange your voice has offered so much more in return.   (more…)

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Posted Jul 7th 2009 at 12:54 pm in Featured Story | 17859496 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/07/07/happy-5-birthday-to-us-and-thank-you-to-all-of-you/Happy+.5+Birthday+to+Us+and+Thank+You+to+All+of+You2009-07-07+19%3A54%3A27John+Nolte

Troopathon 2009: Our Boys Are Not Expendable

Troopathon 2009 is shaping up to be far more than a marvelous day of thanks offered to our brightest, bravest, and best. It’s also turning into a grand culmination of sorts for the first six months of Big Hollywood’s existence.

Click over to our Contributor List, and marvel at how many people from all walks of life have stepped up and made themselves heard in the half-year since Andrew Breitbart unleashed his newest brainchild on a somnolent Hollywood elite. Actors, directors, producers, screenwriters, artists, cartoonists, critics, talk show hosts, documentarians, newspaper columnists, comedians, bloggers, congressmen, authors, military personnel — together they have written thousands of posts thunderously proclaiming the return of a popular culture that unabashedly respects our history and our heritage, our traditions and our troops. Whether it’s the Road to Recovery, the Wounded Warrior Project, the G. I. Film Festival, or today’s magnificent Troopathon, no web site has done more to create a powerful nexus between conservatives of all stripes and the Tinseltown mandarins that for too long have mocked everything good and noble about the country we call home. (more…)

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Posted Jun 25th 2009 at 8:26 pm in Entertainment, Military | 171030No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2009/06/25/troopathon-2009-our-boys-are-not-expendable/Troopathon+2009%3A+Our+Boys+Are+Not+Expendable2009-06-26+03%3A26%3A28Leo+Grin

8pm PST Sunday: Live Blogging the Tonys — Well, Sort Of

Pop some popcorn, tune in to CBS, and fire up the laptop…  We’ll be live-blogging the Tony Awards during the West Coast tape delay starting at 8:00 PM Pacific Time, tomorrow night! 

Come and join me, Stage Right and a whole host of Big Hollywood contributors as we keep a running tally of all the same-sex marriage references, rate the pretentious hyperbole on a scale of 1-to-10 and hold our collective breath when Jane Fonda is given an open microphone! 

Since the Tony’s will be on live in New York three hours ahead of our blogging session, I have a suggestion for those of you in the Eastern zone:  TiVo the Tonys and watch the Laker game!  Then, when the game is over, start your playback at 11:00 PM Eastern and jump on to Big Hollywood for all the live-blogging hilarity!  Otherwise, don’t jump in and spoil it for the rest of us!

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Posted Jun 6th 2009 at 8:06 am in Live Blog | 1533422 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/06/06/live-blogging-the-tonys-well-sort-of/8pm+PST+Sunday%3A+Live+Blogging+the+Tonys+--+Well%2C+Sort+Of2009-06-06+15%3A06%3A46Stage+Right

On the Record, Off the QT and Not Very Hush-Hush

Dear Big Hollywood readers, it gives me great satisfaction to report to you that BH has been out on point not only on compelling film industry issues, which will never be covered in promo rags like Variety and the Hollywood Reporter (but then again, AMPAS and the studios aren’t buying us off), but on many controversial issues being played out in America and the greater world at large as well.

I know this to be true. Being a news junkie myself, I have found time after time as I was reading about a supposedly breaking subject, like ABC’s recent coverage of the targeted LGBT murders in Iraq, that it had already been on display for all to see in Big Hollywood posts for months.

Not to toot my own horn, but…well, okay, I’m tooting my own horn. And those of Andy Breitbart and John Nolte, who have given I, and so many other wonderful and insightful Hollywood right-wing fringe types, a magnificent bullhorn we otherwise would not have. We appear to be doing the dirty jobs our media just refuses to do. It’s a labor Hercules would completely sympathize with. (more…)

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Tags: abc, Academy of Motion Picture arts and Sciences, Adrianne Curry, Ali al-Sistani, AMPAS
Posted Jun 3rd 2009 at 5:20 pm in Entertainment, Politics | 1476823 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/06/03/on-the-record-off-the-qt-and-not-very-hush-hush/On+the+Record%2C+Off+the+QT+and+Not+Very+Hush-Hush2009-06-04+00%3A20%3A57John+T.+Simpson

A Conservative Journey Through Literary America — Part 1: Introduction

Big Hollywood is a unique and long needed institution – a place where conservatives can gather and talk about pop culture and entertainment, the ultimate goal being, as I understand it, to encourage conservatives to engage in the culture war through the arts.

While the best tactics to achieve this goal are open to debate, its ultimate worth and necessity are indisputable – for too long, conservatives have ceded the most influential segments of society, from academia to Hollywood, to the Left with nary a fight.  The current sorry state of our movement is in no small measure the result of this refusal to engage the battle of ideas where it impacts people the most- the culture that they absorb every day through radio, Internet, television, and movies.

The piece which will appear in eight installments, one chapter each Saturday and Sunday, over the next four weeks, however, will deal more specifically with the literary world, and the conservative’s place therein.  For contemporary literature (by which I mean drama, poetry, and written fiction) is also more or less the exclusive province of left-wing thinkers and practitioners.

Some may argue that literature these days is not nearly as influential as movies, say, or television, and therefore perhaps not as worthy of conservative efforts to engage.  On the face this is true – far more people watch Sex and the City, for example, than read The Kenyon Review.  But in a larger sense, this argument misses the point and dangerously underestimates the influence of literature as a vehicle for poisonous ideas to enter the cultural mainstream.   (more…)

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Tags: big hollywood, Conservatives, fiction, Kenyon Review, literature
Posted May 16th 2009 at 7:03 am in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Featured Story, Political Humor, Politics, Reviews | 1351902 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mpatterson/2009/05/16/a-conservative-journey-through-literary-america-part-1-introduction/A+Conservative+Journey+Through+Literary+America+--+Part+1%3A+Introduction2009-05-16+14%3A03%3A03Matt+Patterson

Open Thread: ‘Star Trek’

Have at it.

Discuss. Debate. Write your own review…

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Tags: big hollywood, Chris Pine, JJ Abrams, Open Thread, reboot
Posted May 7th 2009 at 10:40 pm in Entertainment | 129898One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/05/07/open-thread-star-trek/Open+Thread%3A+%27Star+Trek%272009-05-08+05%3A40%3A19Big+Hollywood

Lonewolf Diaries: A Letter to Lorne Michaels (Official Petition)

Copied below is the ACTUAL letter that I sent to and was signed for by Lorne Micheals (and assistant) today over at NBC. I know that the writing is a little less snippy than usual, but please take into account that this man could squash my nuts into oblivion. There’s plenty of room for suggestions, so I encourage you to chime in.  And bear in mind, Lorne may be stopping by here.

Dear Mr. Michaels

I write this letter not as a disgruntled fan, but as a true admirer of what SNL stands for (and as a fellow Canadian/American). We both know how popular it is to mutter things like “I liked SNL, back when it was good” or “SNL used to be cool, but now their writing sucks etc.” Trust me; I’m as annoyed by those folks as you are. I truly believe that you have one of the most talented casts ever assembled over there at NBC. (more…)

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Tags: big hollywood, Bush era, flyover states, jesters, Joe Biden
Posted Mar 3rd 2009 at 5:36 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Politics | 71274230 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/03/03/lonewolf-diaries-a-letter-to-lorne-michaels-official-petition/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+A+Letter+to+Lorne+Michaels+%28Official+Petition%292009-03-04+01%3A36%3A25Steven+Crowder

And the Oscar for Best Non-Sexual Nudity goes to…

The film industry in Hollywood is the most rewarded vocational field in the world. Having been a part of the “Big Hollywood” launch team, I followed roughly forty-eight award shows this year. Generally, I would characterize them as slightly self-aggrandizing. By the way, I’m not confused; awards are nice (consult my bio), but why are there so many award shows? The people who win awards are rarely underappreciated.  Take Kate Winslet for example, one of Hollywood’s most overrated actresses.  I always feel I’m watching her act. Peter Mayhew was more organic as Chewbacca than Winslet as a suburban housewife in the off-putting “Revolutionary Road.” But Hollywood seemingly invents awards to celebrate Winslet and her ubiquitous bare breasts.

What irritates most is that while the shows may differ, the awards are roughly the same.  In sports, there’s only one MVP, one Rookie of the Year.  Yet every year, we are bombarded with the Oscars, the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards, and the BAFTAs.  Not to mention all those snooty little film festivals in upscale ski towns. (more…)

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Tags: ashton kutcher, award shows, BAFTAs, Beyonce, big hollywood
Posted Mar 3rd 2009 at 3:17 pm in Entertainment | 7174690 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amarlow/2009/03/03/and-the-oscar-for-best-non-sexual-nudity-goes-to/And+the+Oscar+for+Best+Non-Sexual+Nudity+goes+to...2009-03-03+23%3A17%3A44Alexander+Marlow

Penn Jillette Responds: ‘Is Dissent Still Patriotic?’

One of my favorite performers, Penn Jillette (and if you haven’t watched the duo of Penn and Teller debunk a broad spectrum of nonsense on their show “Bulls***!“, you should) says a few words about my column — or, more specifically, the headline of my column– “Is Dissent Still Patriotic?”

Warning for the faint of heart, Penn uses some salty language — which, incidentally, I also completely support.

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Bush? Obama? Jillette finds that dissent can provoke very distinct reactions from his friends, depending on the target.

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Posted Feb 9th 2009 at 5:57 pm in Political Humor, Politics | 4627071 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dharsanyi/2009/02/09/is-dissent-still-patriotic/Penn+Jillette+Responds%3A+%27Is+Dissent+Still+Patriotic%3F%272009-02-10+01%3A57%3A45David+Harsanyi

Six Degrees of Paris Hilton

Part pit bull, part Columbo whacked out on a pot of espresso, they don’t make investigative journalists like Mark Ebner anymore. And that’s good news if you’re a dirt bag, scum bag, douche bag or any sort of Hollywood low-level, window peeping, carpet crawling, masturbation celebrity want-to-be.

Mr. Ebner is one of the few writers left today willing to get down in the gutter with his subjects just to hear their truth. In his new book Six Degrees of Paris Hilton, Mr. Ebner takes you to the places they never show you on “Access Hollywood,” because if the general public could access the side of Hollywood Mr. Ebner uncovers, that tub of popcorn in your lap at the multiplex would serve only one purpose, that of a barf bucket.

I recently had the chance to ask Mr. Ebner about his new book and what his thoughts on the state of Hollywood are today. (more…)

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Tags: access hollywood, Baudelaire, big hollywood, Border's, Christopher McQuarrie
Posted Feb 2nd 2009 at 10:03 am in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Political Humor | 3753414 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jlindsey/2009/02/02/six-degrees-of-paris-hilton/Six+Degrees+of+Paris+Hilton2009-02-02+18%3A03%3A00Joseph+Lindsey

I Pledge Not To See Anything With Ashton Kutcher In It

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Tags: anti christ, Barack, big hollywood, change, hope
Posted Jan 28th 2009 at 9:01 am in Celebrity News, Video | 3325475 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/arachel/2009/01/28/the-pledge/I+Pledge+Not+To+See+Anything+With+Ashton+Kutcher+In+It2009-01-28+17%3A01%3A09Alfonzo+Rachel

Iraq War Showdown: Bill Kristol Agrees to Debate Matt Damon After Actor’s “Idiot” Slam

On Sunday afternoon Weekly Standard editor and New York Times columnist Bill Kristol — in an email exchange with Big Hollywood — agreed to debate Matt Damon on his Hollywood home turf after being informed the 38-year old actor ridiculed Kristol in an interview in the Miami Herald.

“He’s an idiot — he wrote that we should be grateful to George Bush because he won the Iraq war. We! Won! The! War!”

As the sponsor of the event, Big Hollywood is offering $100,000 to Damon (or to the charity or carbon credit of his choice) to publicly debate Kristol at a mutually agreed upon time, date and venue.

During the last election cycle the liberal activist Damon — who briefly attended Harvard University — also heaped scorn on John McCain’s vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin:

“You do the actuary tables, there’s a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn’t survive his first term, and it’ll be President Palin…. It’s like a really bad Disney movie, ‘The Hockey Mom.’ Oh, I’m just a hockey mom from Alaska, and she’s president. She’s facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It’s absurd.”

Damon is no stranger to left-wing politics. His Oscar-nominated screenplay, “Good Will Hunting,” co-written with Ben Affleck, was inspired by anarchist Boston University historian, Howard Zinn.

According to Wikipedia:

Damon included a reference to A People’s History in his film Good Will Hunting. In a confrontation with his psychologist, played by Robin Williams, Damon’s character tells him: “If you want to read a real history book, read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. That book will knock you on your ass.” Damon also read the latter half of People’s History for an audiobook released February 1, 2003.

If Damon agrees to participate, Big Hollywood will work with both parties to secure mutually agreed upon parameters for the debate (e.g., Did We Win the War in Iraq?)

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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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