Lonewolf Diaries: Church, State, Jesus and Obama.

It’s no secret that the term “Separation of Church and State” has been bastardized beyond recognition by today’s post-ACLU era. Of course the toolbags of Hollywood have always done their very best to warp its meaning into something more lop-sided than Gary Busy’s left eye-socket. If Thomas Jefferson had known that his private letter would have been the fulcrum to the arguments of liberal propagandists for centuries to come, I doubt that he would have written it.

Poll after poll, the United States ranks as the most “God-fearing” nation on the planet. Good on us! Whether you believe in God or not, it’s tough to deny the reality of Christian principles being an intricate part of our country’s historical fabric.

One has to ask themselves however, as arguably the last “Christian nation” around, why were our Founders so adamant about keeping the Feds grimy paws out of our churches? (more…)

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Tags: ACLU, hollywood, sean penn, Separation of Church and State, Thomas Jefferson
Posted Nov 19th 2009 at 5:40 pm in Lone Wolf Diaries | 265678131 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/11/19/lonewolf-diaries-church-state-jesus-and-obama/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+Church%2C+State%2C+Jesus+and+Obama.2009-11-20+01%3A40%3A46Steven+Crowder

Fear, Children, & Video – Ingredients for Obama’s Weapon of Mass Persuasion

Fear is a powerful propaganda weapon. But couple fear with the innocence of childhood and you have a hair-triggered nuclear bomb of persuasion. One need only spend fifteen minutes watching the finalists of President Obama’s health reform video contest to experience its influence.

The Health Reform Video Challenge, launched by Obama’s Organizing for America in September, is a contest “to make the best 30-second ad showing why the President’s plan for reform is so critical.” The winning video, selected by a list of Hollywood elites and Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe, will be the basis for a new television ad that will air across the country delivering a clear message to viewers – children will die if health care reform is not passed. The secondary message is only one Defcon level lower on the fear-o-meter – the parents of sick or injured children will go bankrupt or lose their houses for even the simplest of injuries.

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Using children to pluck at the heartstrings of the electorate and further a political agenda is nothing new, but it shifts into the land of Disgustopia when our young are exploited to distort the truth or spread outright falsehoods. The winning video opens with a young boy stating, “A year from now I’ll break my leg and my parents will have to sell our house because we couldn’t afford health care.”

This statement is designed to instill broad fear and disseminate the idea that anyone, even a family faced with the common injury of a broken leg, is susceptible to being thrust from their homes as a consequence of being uninsured. The odds of needing to sell your home to pay for the cost of a broken leg are so remote that it borders on preposterous to use it as an example of why we need reform. House closing costs in almost every scenario would exceed the medical bill, yet this is the video that the President’s organization has selected to justify the need for reform. It’s much easier to sell health care reform if our system is so fractured that a broken leg can expel a family out from under the safety of their roof. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, health care, healthcare, hollywood, nancy pelosi
Posted Nov 19th 2009 at 5:01 am in Featured Story, Film, Politics | 26478675 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pcourrielche/2009/11/19/fear-children-video-ingredients-for-obamas-nuclear-bomb-of-persuasion/Fear%2C+Children%2C+%26amp%3B+Video+-+Ingredients+for+Obama%27s+Weapon+of+Mass+Persuasion2009-11-19+13%3A01%3A33Patrick+Courrielche

Death of the Movie Star: Hollywood Rethinks use of A-list Actors

Reuters:

“Hollywood studios are now thinking twice about splurging on A-list movie stars and costly productions in reaction to the poor economy, but also because of the surprising success of recent films with unknown actors. …

“Last weekend, comic actor Jim Carrey’s “A Christmas Carol” became the latest celebrity-driven movie to stumble at box offices, opening to a lower-than-expected $30 million.

“Aside from Jim Carrey and “Carol,” which cost at least $175 million, A-listers who suffered box office flops recently have included Bruce Willis (”Surrogates”), Adam Sandler (”Funny People”), Will Ferrell (”Land of the Lost”), Eddie Murphy (”Imagine That”) and Julia Roberts (”Duplicity”). (more…)

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Tags: A-List, hollywood, Jim Carrey, Movie Star, reuters
Posted Nov 15th 2009 at 9:42 am in Film, Politics | 263238186 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/15/death-of-the-movie-star-hollywood-rethinks-use-of-a-list-actors/Death+of+the+Movie+Star%3A+Hollywood+Rethinks+use+of+A-list+Actors2009-11-15+17%3A42%3A01Big+Hollywood

Hollywood Studios’ Fight With RealDVD Is Counter Productive

Last week, I listened to a speech at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, presented by Yaron Brook, President and Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute.  I was enthralled by Brook’s eloquent and forceful defense of the free market.  In this time of rampant government meddling in the economy, it was refreshing to be reminded of how the free market rewards those who work with its forces rather than against them.  If only the Hollywood studios had been in that audience and heard the message. 

For months now, the major studios have been waging all-out war against technology companies that are developing devices that offer consumers the ability to watch their DVDs on their own computers and televisions under circumstances that give them maximum flexibility.  Heaven only knows how much the studios have paid in fees in order to have their legal surrogates wage a war of words and briefs against relatively small companies like RealNetworks and Kaleidescape that are trying to fill this market niche.  RealNetworks has been hit particularly hard by the aggressive court action lodged against it by the studios.  (more…)

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Tags: copying, digital copy, DVD, hollywood, lawsuits
Posted Nov 12th 2009 at 2:34 pm in Entertainment, Law | 26208633 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bbarr/2009/11/12/hollywood-studios-fight-with-realdvd-is-counter-productive/Hollywood+Studios%E2%80%99+Fight+With+RealDVD+Is+Counter+Productive2009-11-12+22%3A34%3A35Bob+Barr

Burt’s Eye View: Hollywood Elitists Through the Ages

A lot of people seemed shocked to discover that the folks at the National Endowment of the Arts were so ready, even anxious, to devote their talents to propagandizing on behalf of Obama and his administration.  That merely proves that a lot of people haven’t been paying attention. 

It’s my guess that a majority of those involved with the NEA — even those few who are talented — are always eager to roll over for left-wing politicians.  Partly it’s because they are so hungry for attention and partly because they lack anything resembling a moral compass. 

Allow me to give you a few notable examples of the way that people who earn their living in the areas of art and entertainment can voluntarily blind themselves to those matters that have moral implications.  Just recently, we got to watch a swarm of Hollywood retards climbing all over themselves in a rush to defend Roman Polanski, a piece of Euro-trash who confessed to having sex with a 13-year-old child.  All sorts of big name, small brain, celebrities lined up to sign petitions on his behalf.  By attesting to his character, they merely confirmed that they lacked any themselves.  (more…)

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Tags: audrey hepburn, Cliff Robertson, David Begelman, hollywood, motion picture academy
Posted Nov 12th 2009 at 8:23 am in Celebrity News, Classic Hollywood, Politics | 259282100 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/11/12/burts-eye-view-hollywood-elitists-through-the-ages/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Hollywood+Elitists+Through+the+Ages2009-11-12+16%3A23%3A59Burt+Prelutsky

Sheda Vasseghi: Profiles in Courage From the Streets of Iran for Hollywood’s Gutless Wonders

Sheda Vasseghi in today’s World Tribune:

“The mainstream Hollywood crowd, an apologist group that enjoys traveling to Taliban-run countries such as Iran spreading their holier-than-thou “cultural understanding” of rogue regimes, has been effectively censored by Moslem clerics. Filmmaker Roland Emmerich chose not to blow up the Kaaba at Mecca in his film 2012 for fear of a fatwa (death sentence issued by Moslem clerics) being placed on his head.

“Yet, in 2005, actor Sean Penn went to cover a so-called Islamic Republic “election” wanting Americans to visit Iran and become familiar with its culture. In March 2009, director Phil Alden Robinson found that Iranians were not very different; and actress Annette Bening (surely with a headscarf given Iran’s brutal enforcement of hijab) hoped her trip to Iran would jump start a bridge between the U.S. and the mullahs in Tehran. (more…)

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Tags: Annette Bening, hollywood, iran, Islam, Muslim
Posted Nov 6th 2009 at 8:30 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 25917058 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/06/sheda-vasseghi-profiles-in-courage-from-the-streets-of-iran-for-hollywoods-gutless-wonders/Sheda+Vasseghi%3A+Profiles+in+Courage+From+the+Streets+of+Iran+for+Hollywood%27s+Gutless+Wonders+2009-11-06+16%3A30%3A25Big+Hollywood

Burt’s Eye View: Mother Nature and the Left

When Barack Obama was campaigning — not that he’s ever stopped — back in 2008, he made a number of promises.  As we all know, like a cad on the make, he was only trying to get us in the sack.  Once he had his way with us, he barely remembered our name, let alone his various vows.

Some of the things he swore to included keeping lobbyists out of his administration, providing five days for the public to review pending legislation and a bi-partisan approach to problem-solving.  Instead, lobbyists, particularly those representing unions, have freer access to the Oval Office than Michelle and the kids.  Not only is the public not given time to digest major legislation, neither are the legislators.  Early on, you may recall, Congress was given less than 24 hours to vote on an 1100-page, trillion dollar, so-called stimulus bill; more recently, when it came to health care, Obama was telling the sheep on Capitol Hill to vote even before an actual bill was written!

So far, as bi-partisanship is concerned, the Republicans have been banished to Washington’s equivalent of Siberia.  These days, bi-partisanship simply means that  David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel are in agreement.

There is one promise, however, that Obama has kept.  He vowed transparency, and anyone who can’t plainly see what the rock star and his left-wing groupies (Axelrod, Emanuel, Jeff Jones, Valerie Jarrett, Cass Sunstein, Anita Dunn) are up to is simply spending too much time watching “American Idol” and college football. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, Global warming, health care, hollywood
Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 8:22 am in Politics | 25558642 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/11/05/burts-eye-view-mother-nature-and-the-left/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Mother+Nature+and+the+Left2009-11-05+16%3A22%3A49Burt+Prelutsky

Esther Ralston: Why Do All My Husbands Want to Kill Me? Part III

Esther Ralston at the height of her fame, 1920’s.

To read Part I of this series, please click here.

To read Part II, please click here.

Broke, with her second marriage in shambles and blacklisted by studio boss L.B. Mayer—Esther wouldn’t trade amorous favors for movie roles—Esther Ralston flees to New York in 1939 to find work and rebuild her shattered career.

Esther, in her slim but resonant 1985 memoir, Some Day We’ll Laugh, tells us that she was forced to leave her daughter Mary behind in California with her mother.

Working in Summer Stock and radio, Esther meets a young entertainment columnist named Ted Lloyd.  Everywhere she plays, Ted is in the audience. With characteristic understatement Esther notes that Lloyd “seemed to follow me.” (more…)

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Tags: Esther Ralston, hollywood, Some Day We’ll Laugh, Summer Stock, Ted Lloyd
Posted Nov 4th 2009 at 6:38 am in Classic Hollywood | 25717821 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ravrech/2009/11/04/esther-ralston-why-do-all-my-husbands-want-to-kill-me-part-iii/Esther+Ralston%3A+Why+Do+All+My+Husbands+Want+to+Kill+Me%3F+Part+III2009-11-04+14%3A38%3A19Robert+J.+Avrech

Hollywood Receives Government Help — Why No Salary Caps?

When Uncle Sam fought WWII, Hollywood backed him with patriotic movies and war bond drives and moral boosting celebrity appearances. When Uncle Sam fought Communists, Hollywood was a mixed bag. His GIs in Korea got support. His GIs in Vietnam, not so much, as some damned his war with movies of faint praise that depicted Imperialist aggression by ugly Americans against peoples who just wanted be free from capitalist exploitation.

Hollywood on Uncle Sam’s terrorism fight? Don’t even ask.

But now that it’s Uncle Obama on the warpath against the most diabolical villain in the populist panoply, Hollywood is back to showing its anti-Axis resolve against this most indefensible of enemies.

That enemy (for now anyway) is the army of the overpaid — those individuals who represent an unholy axis of unsupervised greed with incomes that evoke envy in the psyche of the ordinary workin’ mench at the mercy of The Man. And why not? According to human resources expert Patrick R. Dailey, top corporate salaries are now 411 times the amount of  the lowest paid worker. In 1980, that ratio was 42 to one. By comparison, star actors are often paid more than 1,000 times the amount of the lowest salary on the set.  No matter. (more…)

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Tags: Capitlaism, hollywood, Lawrence O'Donnell, michael moore, Obama
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 6:44 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 25414649 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dgifford/2009/11/03/national-public-hollywood/Hollywood+Receives+Government+Help+--+Why+No+Salary+Caps%3F2009-11-03+14%3A44%3A15Dan+Gifford

Read Between The Lines of: The Hollywood Green Message of Importance.

A message from Hollywood -

(Not the people who really work hard here like the drivers, grips, electricians, greensman, editors, carpenters, etc. – just us so very important ‘Stars’)

- on what YOU the World – can do to save our planet: (Listen up you nasty smelly little flyover stalker freaks.)

1.  Conserve Water!

(Don’t you dare water your 40′ x 100′ lawn. Let it go brown. We’ll keep swimming in our 3 pools, The infinity one in Malibu, and the two at the compound in Palm Springs.)

2. Airplanes are the grossest polluters. Fight Climate Change, take the bus, or ride your bike!

(All you little people, not us right now – we’re too busy with our awesome important star stuff, and we have a very important film festival to attend in a foreign country that mostly hates the U.S. and we just don’t want to miss out on this opportunity to knock America and Americans. P.S. the film is about Climate change, so it is very important we get there fast with our very snobby entourage.) (more…)

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Tags: conservation, Global warming, hollywood, Hypocrisy
Posted Nov 2nd 2009 at 4:48 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 23475077 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/emannix/2009/11/02/read-between-the-lines-of-the-hollywood-green-message-of-importance/Read+Between+The+Lines+of%3A+The+Hollywood+Green+Message+of+Importance.+2009-11-03+00%3A48%3A24Ernie+Mannix

The Boggy Nature of Fear

Halloween is a time of fright and fear. It’s a favorite time of year for many kids. Of course the candy helps, but that’s not all of it. It’s really about the feeling. The leaves are falling, the skies are darker, the weather is getting colder and there’s still more cold to come. It’s a time for spookiness, mystery and the unknown. So, as I write this, on a dark and stormy night, well, actually,  it’s the afternoon, but it is very dark and very stormy outside. My mind turns to this season, to Halloween, to fear.

There are a lot of films that scared us as kids, and still scare us. Many of the films today are far too graphic for my tastes. Heck, most of television is, too, for that matter. So, I should say right at the outset that I’m not a fan of gore, not in any way shape or form. I know some folks out there are big on the stuff, but not me. Sure, I’ve seen some, the classic Herschell Gordon Lewis, Romero and Savini works, but none of the modern multi-sequel films that grace our theaters with single word titles. I don’t mind being scared. As most would agree, we all need a good scare every now and then. It’s good for you. It’s thrilling. But gore isn’t thrilling for me. It’s sickening. I like to be thrilled, I don’t wish to be sick. Besides, I’ve seen enough of the footage and descriptions of films like “Saw” and “Hostel,” which I rebel against, regardless of how “intelligent” or “clever” they are reported to be. (more…)

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Tags: blair witch project, CSI, earl hamner, Fear, fouke monster
Posted Oct 31st 2009 at 5:42 pm in Film | 25265848 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/smann/2009/10/31/the-boggy-nature-of-fear/The+Boggy+Nature+of+Fear2009-11-01+00%3A42%3A14Schizoid+Mann

To Boost Plummeting Sales Initial DVD Releases Might Become Purchase-Only

The Los Angeles Times:

“For those who like renting movies, Hollywood may soon have a message: Prepare to wait.

“In an effort to push consumers toward buying more movies, some major film studios are considering a new policy that would block DVDs from being offered for rental until several weeks after going on sale.

“Under the plan, new DVD releases would be available on a purchase-only basis for a few weeks, after which time companies such as Blockbuster Inc. and Netflix Inc. would be allowed to rent the DVDs to their customers. The move comes as the studios are grappling with sharply declining DVD revenue, which has long propped up the movie business.

“Reed Hastings, chief executive of DVD-by-mail company Netflix, revealed that he had discussed delayed-rental proposals with several of his biggest suppliers. People close to the situation at several studios confirmed that such plans were under consideration and probably would take effect next year. (more…)

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Tags: DVD, DVD sales, hollywood, home video, Netflix
Posted Oct 24th 2009 at 2:02 pm in Entertainment, News | 25223873 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/10/24/to-boost-plummeting-sales-initial-dvd-releases-might-be-purchase-only/To+Boost+Plummeting+Sales+Initial+DVD+Releases+Might+Become+Purchase-Only2009-10-24+21%3A02%3A46Big+Hollywood

I Keep Watching the Skies: B Movies and Me

I have always been a fan of so-called B movies. I’m not sure I like that description because it implies that B movies are not as important as A movies, not as serious, not as good. Well, I’m not so sure about that. Of the B movies that I love, my favorites are, without a doubt, the science fiction monster movies. Yes, those wonderful creations conceived of by some of the most colorful characters in Hollywood and beyond. Studios like AIP, Toho, Daiei, Hammer and Universal are synonymous with creatures that crawl, creep and are able to stamp a city flat.

Names like Ray Harryhausen, George Pal, Bernard Herrmann and H.G. Wells come to mind. As do those of Ken Toby, Less Tremayne, Paul Frees and Whit Bissell. Each of these names, plus thousands and thousands of others, can immediately conjure up a favorite film, a scene or even just a great line or look that impressed us as kids and perhaps continues to do so.

When I think about those elements that I love in my favorite sci-fi monster movies, my mind can easily dwell for hours on the creatures themselves, the settings, the art direction, the machinery and technology and everything in between. I never grow tired of that stuff. But I also love, with equal passion the characters that people the story. They are really what it’s all about. So, indulge me as I invite you to take a little trip through my memory, recalling some character moments that stand out for me in the B genre of scifi monster movies. (more…)

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Tags: aip, arness, b movie, bissell, carrington
Posted Oct 24th 2009 at 6:58 am in Classic Hollywood, Featured Story, Military | 24710279 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/smann/2009/10/24/i-keep-watching-the-skies-b-movies-and-me/I+Keep+Watching+the+Skies%3A+B+Movies+and+Me2009-10-24+13%3A58%3A31Schizoid+Mann

Shepard Fairey’s Piracy: Rank Hypocrisy in the Art Community

Ever wonder why ushers on Broadway become “Camera Nazis” whenever they spot a still camera or video camera in the house?

Ever wonder why you can’t just skip over those FBI warnings at the start of every DVD?

Ever wonder why “piracy” is always such a big issue for Hollywood when discussing our economic relationship with China?

It’s because writers, actors, directors and producers all live and die from royalties and residuals (payments for the repeated use of a copyright protected piece of intellectual property).  I know most people don’t want to hear this, but being a writer, director or actor is usually not a great life.  Until (or unless) you are lucky enough to make it big, it is fiscally challenging to say the least.  So many actors who are not stars are lucky if they get one or two weeks’ worth of work in Hollywood per year.  How does an actor survive on only two weeks’ pay?  They don’t.  But, one thing that helps them is they get paid for every subsequent use of the show they were on.  Same with the writer and the other creative folks working on the show. (more…)

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Tags: "Fair Use" AP, hollywood, hope, Shepard Fairey
Posted Oct 21st 2009 at 1:57 pm in Art, Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 24992244 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/10/21/shepard-faireys-piracy-rank-hypocrisy-in-the-art-community/Shepard+Fairey%E2%80%99s+Piracy%3A+Rank+Hypocrisy+in+the+Art+Community2009-10-21+20%3A57%3A10Stage+Right

Lonewolf Diaries: Do ‘The Jews’ Run Hollywood?

Firstly let me say, that I love Ben Shapiro. For those who don’t know, Ben is a fellow Big Hollywood contributor, a good friend… And very Jewish. Having worked my whole life with Jews who seemed content with perpetuating the negative “Liberal Hollywood elite” stereotype, I noticed that Ben was extremely different. What is it that separates too many tinseltown Hebrews from their supposed brethren in faith?

For years, anti-Semites have used the argument that “the Jews run Hollywood.” After all, Hollywood is a cesspool of immorality, dishonesty and the mistreatment of your fellow man, so pinning the blame on the entire Jewish people would seem like an airtight case to those with deep-rooted disdain for the people (Jimmy Carter, take notes). The problem is that a lot of people don’t realize that Hollywood-centric Jews (like say, the Weinstein brothers) have very little, if anything in common with their practicing Jewish brothers and sisters. Don’t believe me? Oh, you are so gentile. Let’s take a gander at a few of the major issues. (more…)

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Tags: Ben Shapiro, hollywood, Jewish, Jewish Hollywood, Jews
Posted Oct 20th 2009 at 5:06 pm in Lone Wolf Diaries | 249966121 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/10/20/lonewolf-diaries-real-jews-vs-hollywood-jews/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+Do+%27The+Jews%27+Run+Hollywood%3F2009-10-21+00%3A06%3A09Steven+Crowder

A Great Chinese Thriller…Pass!

I thought about writing a script about China – thriller, action, intrigue.  The last film that dealt with China would be “Red Corner” which a Wikipedia review said, “…more the movie’s subtext swallows its story, until all that is left is Gere’s superior virtue, intermixed with his superior virility — both of which are greatly appreciated by the evidently under-serviced Chinese female population…”  The film was banned in China.  But it’s fertile ground for material.  Imagine the conversation with a Studio Executive…

Me: So, I found this article by Secretary of Defense Gates: “China Could Undermine U.S. Military Power in the Pacific.”  China is expanding its navy in the Pacific to secure disputed territories in the South China Sea with lots of oil and gas.  A Tom Clancy/Harrison Ford thriller.  I’ve followed the Chinese military since the nineties and it’s a central plot of my novel, “Stealing Thunder.” (Shameless Plug! 600 pages long; waiting for Amazon jerks to come through with the darn discount price…).   Think “Clear and Present Danger,” “Hunt for Red October”…

Executive: Liked ‘Sum of All Fears.’ (more…)

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Tags: "China", Censorship, Government censorship, hollywood, movies
Posted Oct 18th 2009 at 5:48 pm in Politics | 22806614 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmandaville/2009/10/18/a-great-chinese-thriller-pass/A+Great+Chinese+Thriller...Pass%212009-10-19+00%3A48%3A10Michael+Mandaville

For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 1

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“[John Ford] was the only one of the Hollywood directors who fought who did not forget his men.”

– Captain Mark Armistead, USN –

Thus quotes Joseph McBride in his masterful biography Searching for John Ford, at the head of the chapter dealing with the director’s wartime activities. It is usually seen as lamentable when a genius is pulled from the practice of his art for any extended period, but here we must make a special allowance. As filmmaker Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994) explains in his essential critical volume About John Ford (which, like the McBride book, should be sitting proudly and dog-eared on the bookshelf of every conservative film fan): “War service took Ford away from the making of films for some three years when his powers were at their height. One would regret this interruption more had it not led directly to the making of a masterpiece.” (more…)

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Tags: "John Ford's Navy", About John Ford (book), Bette Davis, bob hope, Charles Trowbridge
Posted Oct 17th 2009 at 11:09 am in Classic Hollywood | 24699459 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2009/10/17/for-conservative-movie-lovers-john-ford-john-wayne-and-they-were-expendable-part-1/For+Conservative+Movie+Lovers%3A+John+Ford%2C+John+Wayne%2C+and+%27They+Were+Expendable%27+Part+12009-10-17+18%3A09%3A04Leo+Grin

Courrielche Debates ObamaVision on ‘O’Reilly’

My favorite part of this debate is how the NY Post’s Linda Stasi, when referring to the infamous leaked memo, mentions the “military family” part of the memo twice, but never once “health, or “environmental conservation.” And, of course, this is why, in the laundry list of suggested topics, “support for military families” was added (last) — so that people like Stasi could parrot that particular talking point as bipartisan cover:

My second favorite part is Stasi’s statement about how the memo “doesn’t talk about Obama’s health care…”

What a canard. Like the NEA conference calls, there’s no need to force feed fish marked “ObamaCare” to an audience of partisan seals. All you have to do is toss the issue out there. The White House knows this and so, I suspect, does Stasi. In her own circular logic she actually makes that point when arguing ”Old Christine” produced a pro-ObamaCare episode without even being asked. Thank you, Linda — this is exactly why the memo didn’t have to mention “Obama’s health care” specifically… Minions don’t need GPS. Just point. (more…)

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Tags: Fox News, hollywood, Juan Williams, Linda Stasi, nea
Posted Oct 17th 2009 at 8:53 am in Politics, Television | 24866249 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/10/17/patrick-with-juan-williams-and-tv-critic-on-oreilly/Courrielche+Debates+ObamaVision+on+%27O%27Reilly%272009-10-17+15%3A53%3A46John+Nolte

Dennis Miller: Applying a Caveat to Forcible Rape

Dennis Miller in today’s Washington Examiner:

I guess I’ve been hearing it for years now as the country has slid into knee-jerk relativism. Till now though, it’s merely been an equivocating grandfather clock in the background, metronomic, at worst nettlesome. It was at the beginning of l’affaire Polanski, though, that I realized how much I’ve come to detest the word “but.”

One liberal pundit or another (banality = interchangeability) was bleating on and on, and I actually heard the words “what Roman Polanski did was wrong but …” and it hit me like an air horn in a Trappist monastery. With a simple wave of the conjunctive wand, we now believe that we can explain away absolutely anything!

I know man does not live by declarative sentences alone, although you can certainly do a lot worse than Hemingway. Purely and simply, there are certain times in life that you have to pull up short of the logic abyss that is the word “but” and pitch camp on the near side of it. This is one of those times. (more…)

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Tags: Dennis Miller, hollywood, roman polanski, whoopi goldberg
Posted Oct 16th 2009 at 9:09 am in Entertainment, Politics | 248254129 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/10/16/dennis-miller-applying-a-caveat-to-forcible-rape/Dennis+Miller%3A+Applying+a+Caveat+to+Forcible+Rape2009-10-16+16%3A09%3A03Big+Hollywood

Burt’s Eye View: Have You No Shame, Leftists?

Back in 1954, a lawyer named Joseph Welch became famous virtually overnight when he looked contemptuously at Joe McCarthy and said, “Have you no decency, sir, at long last?”  As clumsy as the line was, he said it so effectively that the next thing we knew, Otto Preminger had hired him to play a judge and deliver equally sanctimonious lines in “Anatomy of a Murder.” 

The question of decency runs through my head every time I see or hear a celebrity or a politician these days.  For instance, I keep asking myself if I am more disgusted by what Roman Polanski did some 30-odd years ago or what his legion of defenders are presently saying in his defense.  Just because he directed a couple of good movies and a lot of lousy ones, we have most of Hollywood signing petitions on his behalf.  Whoopi Goldberg, who was apparently paying close attention when Bill Clinton was parsing the word “is,” has gone so far as insisting that what Polanski did to the 13-year-old girl wasn’t really rape.  The problem with calling these Hollywood freaks on the carpet is that the more repulsed that normal human beings are with them, the more convinced they are that they’re as sophisticated, not to mention morally superior, as their press releases claim they are.  (more…)

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Tags: gore, hollywood, Obama, Polanski, whoopi goldberg
Posted Oct 15th 2009 at 1:31 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 24360252 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/10/15/burts-eye-view-have-you-no-shame-leftists/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Have+You+No+Shame%2C+Leftists%3F2009-10-15+20%3A31%3A31Burt+Prelutsky

My Apology to Leftist Hollywood

My apologies, Leftist Hollywood.

When you stepped over causes like childhood diseases, health-care reform and the homeless to spend political capital defending a fugitive child-rapist, I was certain you really were stupid enough to further tarnish an already devastated reputation under the misguided impression that tsk-tsking child sodomy made you look sophisticated, as opposed to wicked and grotesque. Thankfully, I’ve seen the light and am man enough to admit that my right-wing kneejerk got the better of me. How embarrassing to have missed your Harvey Weinstein and Minions Master Plan:

Roman Polanski realises that some of the support he got in his battle against US child sex charges was “counter-productive”, his lawyer said Sunday, adding he was worried about the detained director’s health.

“The filmmaker is very touched by the support he has received,” Herve Temime told AFP after visiting his client on Friday in his cell in Switzerland, where he is being held on a US warrant.

“He also knows that some of it is counter-productive,” he added, without elaborating. (more…)

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Tags: child rape, harvey weinstein, hollywood, roman polanski
Posted Oct 14th 2009 at 12:08 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 24638683 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/10/14/my-apology-to-leftist-hollywood/My+Apology+to+Leftist+Hollywood2009-10-14+19%3A08%3A17John+Nolte

Human Decency and Hollywood: The Voice of America

I work in Hollywood and many in my industry consider my views to be pretty radical. I blame my father and the values that he instilled in me: Never hit a woman and protect your children. 

Over the past few years, throughout this country I have heard the same thing from audiences over and over, “Why doesn’t Hollywood make the kind of movies that we want to see? Why don’t movies represent our values?” 

This is an outstanding opportunity for lessons learned. To everyone outside of this community, I implore you to take a long and hard look at the people who are standing up for Roman Polanski. The stars. The studio heads. Many of these people are the powers that be who green-light projects. These are the people that we pitch to. These are the people who decide whether or not our films get distribution. These are the people who decide what product should be available to you and your children. (more…)

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Tags: child rape, hollywood, Polanski, roman polanski
Posted Oct 8th 2009 at 8:24 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 23968685 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cburgard/2009/10/08/human-decency-and-hollywood-the-voice-of-america/Human+Decency+and+Hollywood%3A+The+Voice+of+America2009-10-08+15%3A24%3A39Chris+Burgard

Polanski’s Polymorphous Perversity

After more than thirty years Oscar® winning director Roman Polanski, the infamous child rapist and decades-long fugitive from justice, has been captured. He should be extradited back to California as soon as possible for sentencing. 

Some of Polanski’s early apologists and defenders are likely now entertaining discomforting second-thoughts about their hasty signing of the petition demanding his immediate release from captivity, as indeed some are also now furiously backpedaling in regret over their indiscretion of speaking out publicly on his behalf. 

It seems an appropriate time to review some origins and history underlying the modern psychological rationales currently attempting to dilute and evade Polanski’s morally deviant nihilism, and the cognitive dissonance (i.e., “it wasn’t ‘rape’ rape”) introjected by countercultural pseudo-intellectual sycophants. 

Its members’ values inculcation was, with purposeful destructiveness, initiated early last century by an all-too-often overlooked intellectual vanguard. So, in deconstructing the value of his sexual crimes, Polanski’s sophistic defenders were/are perhaps unwittingly acting out a reflexive cultural pre-conditioning, rather than logic and reason. This is hardly surprising, considering the players, yet the whys and wherefores are important, if only for historical perspective.  (more…)

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Tags: annie hall, Child Molester, Eros & Civilization, hollywood, kinsey
Posted Oct 7th 2009 at 2:42 pm in Culture, Featured Story, Politics | 24229884 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abaldwin/2009/10/07/polanskis-polymorphous-perversity/Polanski%E2%80%99s+Polymorphous+Perversity2009-10-07+21%3A42%3A05Adam+Baldwin

White House Creates ACORN for the Arts

Over the last week, Big Hollywood and Big Government have been extensively covering the August 10 conference call between the National Endowment for the Arts and a group of artists – a call on which the artists were encouraged to support President Obama’s agenda, with the tacit promise that they would be handsomely rewarded with government grants.  The NEA representative on the call was then-Communications Director of the NEA Yosi Sergant.

Now we have new evidence that the White House itself has been using its sway to recruit artists – not just to support President Obama’s “volunteerism” initiatives, but to support basic planks of his political agenda, including health care.  In fact, the White House has been tapping its extragovernmental political allies to work with artists with the tacit promise that NEA funds will be in the offing for those who join the Obama Administration political program. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Barack Obama, Congress, health care, healthcare
Posted Oct 5th 2009 at 9:53 am in Art, Politics | 240798One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/10/05/white-house-creates-acorn-for-the-arts/White+House+Creates+ACORN+for+the+Arts2009-10-05+16%3A53%3A14Ben+Shapiro

How Dare They Arrest Polanski!

While running the risk of turning this group blog into an All-Polanski-All-The-Time love fest, I thought it worth while to point out my favorite part of the petition currently circulating the mess halls of Sunset Boulevard. (I mean beside the fact that Woody Allen signed it (which is a cheap shot, I know, but much like my teenage years, I’ll take what I can get)).

Filmmakers in France, in Europe, in the United States and around the world are dismayed by this decision. It seems inadmissible to them that an international cultural event, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, is used by the police to apprehend him.

In other words, “How dare they disturb the sanctity of a film festival!”

There is a special sort of comedy associated with this idea that only those who have run a film through the festival circuit can appreciate. (more…)

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Tags: film festivals, Free Roman Polanski Petition, hollywood, Logan's Run
Posted Oct 4th 2009 at 11:03 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Politics | 23806275 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/rjthomas/2009/10/04/how-dare-they-arrest-polanski/How+Dare+They+Arrest+Polanski%212009-10-04+18%3A03%3A02R.J.+Thomas

Garofalo Trashes ‘Tea-Baggers’ as ‘White Power Movement’ Led By Limbaugh, Beck…

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What a week for Celebucrat video!

Whoopi –rape-rape– Goldberg…

Bette –take Glenn Beck’s free speech away– Midler…

John –race-obsessed, socialist, grievance monger– Leguizamo…

Mad –here’s another reason to love W. – onna…

David –I think this makes me a hypocrite– Letterman

And now: (more…)

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Tags: bette midler, David Letterman, hollywood, janeane garofalo, john leguizamo
Posted Oct 3rd 2009 at 10:45 am in Celebrity News, Politics, Video | 240194192 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sullivan/2009/10/03/garofalo-trashes-tea-baggers-as-white-power-movement-led-by-limbaugh-beck/Garofalo+Trashes+%27Tea-Baggers%27+as+%27White+Power+Movement%27+Led+By+Limbaugh%2C+Beck...2009-10-03+17%3A45%3A17Sullivan

Another Spoof on the MoveOn/Will Ferrell Health Care Vid

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Tags: adam mckay, Barack Obama, health care, healthcare, hollywood
Posted Oct 2nd 2009 at 11:57 am in Celebrity News, Political Humor, Video | 23949482 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/10/02/another-spoof-on-the-moveonwill-ferrell-health-care-vid/Another+Spoof+on+the+MoveOn%2FWill+Ferrell+Health+Care+Vid2009-10-02+18%3A57%3A32Big+Hollywood

When You’ve Lost Eugene Robinson: ‘Hollywood’s Shame’

The Polanski divide isn’t a left/right issue, it’s a culture issue, and while there are many good and moral people working in the entertainment industry, there’s also a dark underbelly of money, power, sex and fame among the most powerful. They’re terrified to judge Polanski because they don’t want to open that door. If “judgment” is allowed in the room, it could turn on them.

The worst sin imaginable among the Harvey Weinsteins who run this town and the Whoopi Goldbergs desperate to hold on to their celebrity, obviously isn’t the sodomizing a thirteen year-old child. The worst sin is making a moral judgment against another — unless that “other” is someone who makes them ashamed through the upholding of  a personal moral standard, like a Christian. 

But the whole thing is burning down around them and they don’t even see it.  The world now senses something dark and ugly at work among those who control the world’s most powerful propaganda tool, and the last two decades of being written off as a bunch of fuzzy headed, out-of-touch liberals are about to be remembered as the good old days. (more…)

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Tags: Eugene Robinson, hollywood, roman polanski, whoopi goldberg
Posted Oct 2nd 2009 at 8:05 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Politics | 23921893 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/10/02/when-youve-lost-eugene-robinson-hollywoods-shame/When+You%27ve+Lost+Eugene+Robinson%3A+%27Hollywood%27s+Shame%272009-10-02+15%3A05%3A30John+Nolte

Support for Polanski Explained: The ‘Cinematic Immunity’ Clause

SECTION 23. PART A:

THE CINEMATIC IMMUNITY CLAUSE

This contract’s previously mentioned  HOLLYWOOD STAR, having surpassed all normal standards of importance, (and now seeking revenge for being a high school nerd); shall not be held responsible for any and all of the following crimes, misdemeanors, torts, or traffic infractions:

1. Throwing chairs and injuring assistants or standers by.
2. Tantrums of any variety, in addition to chair or other furniture throwing.
3. Double-dipping in the Craft Service table Salsa bowls.
4. Driving around the cars of the ‘little people’ lined up at the security gate with your middle finger out.
5. Carbon foot-printing like a freakin’ Sasquatch Beeeotch.
6. Scratching your ass inside your pants then grabbing a handful of M&M’s from the bowl at the snack table.
7. Telling your P.A. “You f—ing  piece of sh-t, I told you I wanted to order lunch at 12:25 EVERY DAY! Not even a minute f—ing later or earlier you f—ing piece of sh-t.”
8. Not showing up at the Cast & Crew Screening. (more…)

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Tags: hollywood, pedophile, Polanski, roman polanski
Posted Oct 1st 2009 at 11:32 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Politics | 23756693 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/emannix/2009/10/01/support-for-polanski-explained-the-cinematic-immunity-clause/Support+for+Polanski+Explained%3A+The+%27Cinematic+Immunity%27+Clause2009-10-01+18%3A32%3A30Ernie+Mannix