Daily Gut: Chickenhawks For Polanski

So Roman Polanski is in hot water, again – but this time it`s not at Jack Nicholson`s house. Instead, he`s in a Swiss jail, and Hollywood is desperately trying to come to his rescue. Woody Allen, Debra Winger and Whoopi Goldberg, among others, have come to his defense – in what can only be described as brave acts of selective anti-feminism.

What is a selective anti-feminist? It is a feminist who turns a blind eye to sexual abuse if it`s done by someone who shares their assumptions about the world (like a creepy film director or a left wing politician with a penchant for opening his front door without his pants on).

In other words, they`re “chickenhawk rapists.” (more…)

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Tags: Chickenhawks, Gutfeld, hollywood, Polanski
Posted Sep 30th 2009 at 2:53 pm in Daily Gut | 23827870 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/09/30/daily-gut-chickenhawks-for-polanski/Daily+Gut%3A+Chickenhawks+For+Polanski2009-09-30+21%3A53%3A57Greg+Gutfeld

‘New York Times’: Hollywood Wrong on Polanski

Dear Hollywood,

Wake up call: Your position on the Polanski matter is even too decadent for the New York Times:

“Roman Polanski was arrested on Saturday at the Zurich airport on an American-issued warrant. But to hear the protests from the French, the Poles and other Europeans, you might have thought the filmmaker was seized by some totalitarian regime for speaking truth to power. …

“But hold on a moment. After being indicted in 1977, didn’t Mr. Polanski, now 76, confess to having sex with a 13-year-old girl after plying her with Quaaludes and Champagne? Didn’t he flee the United States when the plea bargaining seemed to fall apart, raising the prospect of prison time? Isn’t there a warrant for his arrest? …

“In Europe, the prevailing mood — at least among those with access to the news media — seemed to be that Mr. Polanski has already “atoned for the sins of his young years,” as Jacek Bromski, the chief of the Polish Filmmakers Association, put it. (more…)

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Tags: child rape, europe, hollywood, New York Times, pedophilia
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Hollywood Backing Perv Polanski Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone

There has been much indignation - and rightfully so - from various parties over the fact that Hollywood is ”circling the wagons” around Roman Polanski, who was finally arrested in Switzerland after being a fugitive from justice for over 30 years for the drugging and subsequent rape and sodomy of a 13-year-old girl despite her pleas to stop – to which he pled guilty, by the way.

An excellent article, which really says it all, is by Kate Harding over at Salon.com – if you haven’t read it yet, you should. She reminds us that Roman Polanski – wait for it – raped a child. I don’t care if the victim, now 45, wants it all dropped because she’s tired of being the focal point of publicity. I don’t care it it’ll be a drain on California’s over-extended budget (how about not footing the bill for the education and medical care for illegal aliens? That’d fix things in a big hurry). I don’t care if she “looked” older than 13, or if her mother was the proverbial stage mother from hell, or if the sky was green instead of blue that day. And I certainly don’t care that Polanski is such a talented director – what WOULD we do without Hollywood to entertain us? – with a troubled past of his own. Many of us have troubled pasts. We don’t all use it as an excuse to do whatever the hell we want just because it “feels good” at the time. (more…)

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Tags: academy awards, American Beauty, Debra Winger, hollywood, Kate Harding
Posted Sep 30th 2009 at 4:58 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 237158119 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2009/09/30/hollywood-backing-perv-polanski-shouldnt-surprise-anyone/Hollywood+Backing+Perv+Polanski+Shouldn%27t+Surprise+Anyone2009-09-30+11%3A58%3A32Pam+Meister

Hollywood and Health Care: Because They Know Better

To quote my good friend Tom: Thank God I have Hollywood to tell me how to think.

As many of you probably already know, Will “Elf” Ferrell is leading Hollywood’s latest band of Obama’s Merry Men, in a joint effort with MoveOn.org, in a satirical bid to tell you and me how grateful we should be for ObamaCare and how we should despise those dastardly insurance company executives who make millions of dollars by exploiting us.

My friend Kitty’s thoughts on the video: “I’m sure O’s supporters will think it’s hilariously creative, but I honestly thought these people could do better. There’s nothing subtle about the video, and satire needs subtlety. All politics aside, I was disappointed.”

The creative juices of Hollywood keep on flowing, folks!

I suppose since Obama has Hollywood’s back – he’s continuing to cheapen the office of the President by shilling for George Lopez’s new show on TBS – it’s their turn to “give back.” And since it’s been eight long years since they’ve been proud to be Americans, it’s not surprising that all of that choked back patriotism is coming out in a rush. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, celebrity, health care, hollywood, Obama
Posted Sep 26th 2009 at 6:47 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 233626139 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2009/09/26/hollywood-and-health-care-because-they-know-better/Hollywood+and+Health+Care%3A+Because+They+Know+Better2009-09-26+13%3A47%3A42Pam+Meister

Enviros Use ACORN Tactics and Attack the Journalist (Literally)

It really is a great time to be an independent journalist/filmmaker.

With the mainstream media devoting to trying to turn policy differences into racism it leaves the task of asking hard questions to people in power open to the rest of us

Inspired by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles who have shone an uncomfortable light on Acorn by asking obvious questions and by simply letting people answer I decided to cover the New York premiere of  “The Age of Stupid” – a documentary that claims the human race will be extinct by 2055 because of Climate Change.

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Much of the “Age Of Stupid” is spent attacking those in the developing world who want our lives and lifestyles. The documentary is particularly critical of those in countries such as India who want to fly more for business or pleasure.

The documentary is quite clear that flying in aeroplanes is disastrous for the planet. “Apart from setting fire to a forest flying is the single worst thing an individual can do to cause climate change,” we are told. (more…)

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Tags: carbon emissions, celebs, climate change, hollywood, jets
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John Podhoretz: Movie Stars Strut Towards Extinction

John Podhoretz in the Weekly Standard:

“[T]he system around which the motion-picture business has oriented itself almost since its creation in the early years of the last century–the star system, which it largely invented–has finally reached its end.”

“The eight most successful movies over the course of the year’s first eight months have collectively grossed $2.7 billion, up from $2.3 billion for the entirety of 2008. And what is most striking about these eight films is that not a single one of them, not a single one, features an unmistakable star. Three of them are cartoons (Up, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and Monsters vs. Aliens). Three are sequels whose top-line talents are incidental to their success (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the sixth Harry Potter, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine). Two feature relative nobodies (Star Trek and The Hangover). The first traditional star appears in the ninth-place film, which is itself a high-concept sequel in which the star mostly stands around (Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian with Ben Stiller). It’s not until tenth place that a classic vehicle hits the list, Sandra Bullock’s The Proposal. And after that you have to jump down to 15th place to find Tom Hanks in Angels and Demons. Will Ferrell’s movie tanked. Julia Roberts laid an egg. Adam Sandler couldn’t sell a ticket. Johnny Depp disappointed. Denzel Washington and John Travolta bombed together. Instead, the movies whose successes depended on their strong leading performances were the ones featuring the 57-year-old Irishman Liam Neeson (Taken, $145 million) and the out-of-work TV comedian Kevin James (Paul Blart: Mall Cop, $146 million).
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Tags: 2009, adam sandler, ben stiller, Denzel Washington, Harry Potter
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Daily Gut: ACORN: The Movie

So when two scrappy DC journalists bring down a President, it’s turned into “All the President’s Men,” winning accolades and Oscars. When an unemployed single mother of three takes the fight to an energy giant, it becomes a blockbuster vehicle for Julia Robert’s cleavage. And when a former Vice President exposes man’s inhumanity toward Mother Earth – “An Inconvenient Truth” crowns him the most majestic whistle blower ever.

But when two amateur journalists (in their early twenties, poorly dressed as sex workers, with under two grand in their budget) casually take down a sleazy behomoth that leeches off American taxpayers, you’d think Hollywood and the media would be all over this. I mean, what Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe did to Acorn – leading to the House approving to cut off all their funding – is the whistle blowing film to end ALL whistle blowing films. These two kids did what Michael Moore could never come close to accomplishing: uncovering lurid incompetence, affecting policy, and saving Americans millions of dollars. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, ACORN: The Movie, All The President's Men, Hannah Giles, hollywood
Posted Sep 18th 2009 at 12:18 pm in Daily Gut, Entertainment, Political Humor | 228874121 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/09/18/daily-gut-acorn-the-movie/Daily+Gut%3A+ACORN%3A+The+Movie2009-09-18+19%3A18%3A40Greg+Gutfeld

Bibles

Liberalism is Communism is Atheism

“A rose by any other name is still a rose.”

Liz is driving me to the 9-12 Westwood Tea Party.  I’m biting my fake fingernails because I’m one of the speakers and I don’t have a speech yet.

Liz: Do you have your speech all ready?

Me: No…I’m kinda nervous.  I mean, where do I start? Should I talk about:

1)  Obama’s last speech where he lied 13 times? Not even little sneaky lies you have to research, but big, bold, blatant lies!  ”My plan will not fund abortions, or insure illegals!”  Lie, lie, lie.

2)  The former Liberally-Biased Mainstream Media that is now a completed, fully-functioning Progressive Propaganda Machine?  Ignoring the Acorn tapes, and the Van Jones story! That’s called the lie of omission!

3)  Or, …hey, you know what I read?  I was flipping around in the Bible and since it’s 9 -12 I just flipped to Psalm 12 and it said the most perfect thing…about lying in the government!

Liz: Really?  Did you see Glenn Beck today?

Me: The protest sign in the Washinton D.C. crowd that said Ephesians 6:12?

Liz: Yeah! (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Bible, Daniel 3:6, Ephesians 6:12, Glenn Beck
Posted Sep 18th 2009 at 5:03 am in Culture, Featured Story, Politics, Religion | 228198168 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/09/18/bibles/Bibles2009-09-18+12%3A03%3A13Victoria+Jackson

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

Esther Ralston, at the height of her Hollywood stardom in the 1920’s.

They called her: The American Venus.

She lived in a Hollywood mansion with a staff of servants. Her chauffeur drove a limited edition limousine. But she ended her days in an upscale trailer park in Ventura, California.

One of the enduring mysteries—for yours truly—are the scores of Hollywood starlets, innocent young women, who are attracted to bad men: drunks, gamblers, liars, tinsel town sociopaths.

Esther Ralston is a prime example of an early Hollywood star who showed great promise as an actress—she played drama and comedy with equal craft—but three ill-considered marriages effectively derailed Ralston’s career and drained away her considerable fortune. (more…)

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Tags: Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin Studios, Esther Ralston, George Webb, hollywood
Posted Sep 14th 2009 at 5:05 am in Celebrity News, Classic Hollywood, Culture | 22009433 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ravrech/2009/09/14/esther-ralston-why-do-all-my-husbands-want-to-kill-me/Esther+Ralston%3A+Why+Do+All+My+Husbands+Want+to+Kill+Me%3F2009-09-14+12%3A05%3A51Robert+J.+Avrech

Honoring September 11th: We Need Not Be Told

Before we can be of service to those who still breathe, we must remember those whose breath was taken from them on this day, and who took it. The current administration has changed this day into a national day of service, another move to further remove us from the reality of life as it is and towards the Utopian life that lives inside their head. And to help nudge society and our popular culture into that imaginary world, the administration has a covert operative in Hollywood.

Hollywood has beneath it a core of self-hatred, mostly because those who run it are engulfed in a glowing guilt rivaled by no religion or ideology. A guilt which silently tells them that their white skin is not worthy of the riches they have. And most are not. (more…)

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Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 7:41 pm in Culture, Military, Politics | 22279017 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jlindsey/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th/Honoring+September+11th%3A+We+Need+Not+Be+Told2009-09-12+02%3A41%3A25Joseph+Lindsey

Honoring September 11th: He Kept Us Safe

My sense that the September 11th attacks would transcend partisan politics lasted less than a few days. That may sound cynical, but after counting myself as one of them for over a decade, I know how the Left thinks and I knew what was coming.

Within days of the attacks, it began. Without a word, those who had endlessly looped the video of the beating of Rodney King stopped airing footage of Americans jumping to their deaths from the burning World Trade Center. Not long after, those who would later sear the images of a few misfits at Abu Ghraib into the hearts and minds of the enemy, began the inevitable murmurs of “being responsible” when it came to airing footage of passenger planes exploding into the towers.

Soon, and predictably, the footage all but disappeared. 

Step one at chipping away at our resolve was complete, and all in the name of a few sophisticates doing what was best for us.

What followed was also expected. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, george w. bush, hollywood, media, September 11th
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 1:10 pm in Culture, Featured Story, Military, Politics | 222918195 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-he-kept-us-safe/Honoring+September+11th%3A+He+Kept+Us+Safe2009-09-11+20%3A10%3A59John+Nolte

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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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, BigGovernment, breitbart, founding fathers, government
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Let the Media’s Michael Moore Lovefest Begin

Director Michael Moore has a new movie coming soon – “Capitalism: A Love Story.”

It could only mean one thing – OK, many, many things:

• Rave reviews from at least 80 percent of film critics. And I’m being conservative.
• More press coverage than any documentary filmmaker could ever dream of.
• Few, if any, labels associated with him in the press. Liberal? Nah, he’s a muckraker, an iconoclast, a rebel, a truth teller…
• Oscar buzz aplenty. Feel badly for any other documentary filmmaker who did great work this year. Chances are you won’t be taking home the Oscar for your troubles. Better luck next year.
• More softball questions thrown his way by alleged journalists – this time, Oprah herself will get in on the action.

Moore, who won the Best Documentary Oscar for “Bowling for Columbine” and gave us the factually challenged “Fahrenheit 9/11,” has helped shape the film industry for better and worse. (more…)

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Tags: bush, Capitalism: A Love Story., hollywood, michael moore, Oprah
Posted Sep 7th 2009 at 1:14 pm in Entertainment, Media Criticism, Politics | 216938128 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2009/09/07/let-the-michael-moore-lovefest-begin/Let+the+Media%27s+Michael+Moore+Lovefest+Begin2009-09-07+20%3A14%3A55Christian+Toto

Bill Maher, Barack Obama and the True Story of American Exceptionalism

Over at the Huffington Post, Bill Maher is outraged that people like me are outraged at a statement made by Barack Obama a few weeks ago. When asked if he believed in American Exceptionalism, the President of the United States replied: “I believe in American Exceptionalism, just as I suspect the Brits believe in British Exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek Exceptionalism.”

Bill Maher, never one to miss an opportunity to express his contempt for anything not Bill Maher, wrote: “Yes, our so-called President wrote that people in other countries might like their countries better… I was so shocked I nearly dropped the Bible I was using to help me masturbate into my gun.”  

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People like Maher use this kind of snark to cover the fact that either they have serious issues in comprehension, or, more likely, that they do not care for the lay of the intellectual battlefield and so want to move it to another, slimier, filthier one. 

The question to the President was not whether or not he believed in American Patriotism – that is, the love of one’s country. Of course other people love their countries. But the idea of American Exceptionalism is a specific political construct, much like British Colonialism. I suppose I should have cut both of them more slack, unfamiliar as both hearts are with the feel of patriotism and faced with the clear evidence of lack of intellectual exceptionalism on both their parts.  (more…)

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Tags: Afterburner, American Exceptionalism, Barack Obama, Bill Maher, British Colonialism
Posted Sep 5th 2009 at 6:42 am in Entertainment, Politics, Video | 218070115 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bwhittle/2009/09/05/bill-maher-barack-obama-and-the-true-story-of-american-exceptionalism/Bill+Maher%2C+Barack+Obama+and+the+True+Story+of+American+Exceptionalism2009-09-05+13%3A42%3A33Bill+Whittle

Barack Obama: The Movie

“We’re here today, Mr. President, about the project that is due our studio, …on your contract,” the man with rectangular blue Goutier glasses crisply announces to the gathered party of the President and his people. He adds, “I assume Mr. Emanuel explained everything to you… Sir.

According to our pre-election agreement Mr. President, our television divisions were to provide you with substantially positive coverage, while at the same time focusing on the fringe of the losing party, and their…. ‘ideas.’ You know the birth certificate thing, the anti-Christ, …yada.”

(Smiles and chuckles about the room.) (more…)

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Tags: biden, hollywood, Obama, Obama Movie, Oprah
Posted Aug 10th 2009 at 9:06 am in Political Humor | 20184635 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/emannix/2009/08/10/the-stinkers/Barack+Obama%3A+The+Movie2009-08-10+16%3A06%3A03Ernie+Mannix

Hollywood Gets a Pass as Desperate Dems Crank Up Class Warfare Machine

The Democrats, after getting their butts kicked all through July, are trying to change the momentum by raising the bloody flag of class warfare. Last Friday the House of Representatives voted 237-185 along party lines to enable financial regulators to limit Wall Street pay and bonus packages they deem inappropriate. The new regulation would affect firms worth over $1 billion, whether or not they got government bailout funds. The Washington Post and AP both asserted the House was responding to looming “populist anger,” although polls suggest recent public concern has been over spending and health care. 

Class warfare rests on the assumption, usually well disguised and used very selectively, that capitalist profits are a rip-off, a heist, “unearned.” In his recent health-care pitch, President Obama declared insurance companies are “making record profits,” a questionable claim but presumably identifying both the evil enemy and the room for government to save money, if you buy that the government can deliver something as good for the same cost.   (more…)

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Tags: capitalism, class warfare, creative destruction, economics, health care
Posted Aug 6th 2009 at 12:04 pm in Entertainment, Politics | 19841858 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/eazlant/2009/08/06/dems-crank-up-class-warfare-what-about-hollywood/Hollywood+Gets+a+Pass+as+Desperate+Dems+Crank+Up+Class+Warfare+Machine2009-08-06+19%3A04%3A22Edward+Azlant

The Great Lie: ‘Americanism’ Doesn’t Sell Overseas

If you think the national news media is biased, spend some time rummaging through the world of entertainment news. Today’s L.A. Times piece about the marketing of “G.I. Joe” has an especially priceless whopper:

Yet overseas, where big action films often earn 60% or more of their ticket sales, rah-rah American sentiment doesn’t play well. So those references have vanished from the advertising.

The Great Lie told by Leftist Hollywood and the media who shill for them is that in order to make money the likes and dislikes of an “international” audience must be considered, and international audiences loathe Americanism.

Let’s see how that’s working out with some overseas numbers for a few “big action films.” (more…)

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Tags: GI Joe, hollywood, International Box Office, L.A. Times, National Treasure
Posted Aug 3rd 2009 at 12:15 pm in Entertainment, Media Criticism | 19778282 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/08/03/the-great-lie-americanism-doesnt-sell-overseas/The+Great+Lie%3A+%27Americanism%27+Doesn%27t+Sell+Overseas2009-08-03+19%3A15%3A09John+Nolte

Stupidity, Schooling, and the Take-Over of America’s Culture

Half-a-century ago, a band of Leftist thugs violently took over the administration building at Columbia University and hijacked the American education system.  From that moment on, they used this system to indoctrinate – in fact brainwash – generation after generation into their cult of Leftism.

For the next five decades (pseudo)-intellectuals, hiding behind tenure and “Academic Freedom,” have been spewing greater and greater nonsense designed for one purpose and one purpose only: sabotaging and eventually destroying all of Western Civilization.

 
Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers

Don’t think so?  Simply consider the fact that one of the most oft-repeated chants of the Modern Liberal movement is “Hey, hey, ho, ho. Western Civilization has got to go.”

With control of the “education” system, the Leftists turned what had been a place of scholarship into a Leftism factory with a curriculum and modus operandi designed to facilitate their Utopian dreams which first required the demolition of the great (but imperfect) Western World. (more…)

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Tags: "The Closing of the American Mind", Allan Bloom, Columbia, Columbia School of Journalism, education
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Hollywood to America: Trickle-Down Economics Works Only For Us

Other than a self-made governor who chose not to abort her unborn Down syndrome child, nothing gets the Hollywood Left more outraged than what they call, “tax cuts for the rich,” or “corporate welfare.” For nearly thirty-years now, studio chiefs, millionaire actors and millionaire directors have created and distributed movies and television shows laced with propaganda opposing “trickle-down economics.” Most of us have also been subjected to Reaganomics’ bashing in popular music and novels, as well. 

And yet… [emphasis added]

The California Film Commission on Monday announced that 25 productions had been awarded tax credits, which refund 20% or 25% of all spending in the state on so-called below-the-line employees, Hollywood parlance for behind-the-scenes crew. …

The state is awarding $67.5 million in tax credits for the 25 productions. Amy Lemisch, director of the CFC, said those movies and TV shows will spend $347 million on below-the-line employees. Lemisch said she was confident the vast majority of that money would otherwise not have been spent in California.

Productions using the credits include CBS Films, DreamWorks, Sony, Comedy Central, and Disney.   (more…)

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Tags: hollywood, Left, liberty, Reaganomics, right
Posted Jul 29th 2009 at 5:16 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 19392254 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/07/29/tax-cuts-for-the-rich-okay-for-hollywood/Hollywood+to+America%3A+Trickle-Down+Economics+Works+Only+For+Us2009-07-30+00%3A16%3A17John+Nolte

San Diego Comic-Con: These Are My People

For many years, the press would come down to San Diego Comic-Con International to take pictures and interview attendees. The results were always the same. They would look for those with the most outlandish costumes and the report would be: “San Diego Comic Con International has arrived again. Look at all the freaks that showed up. Aren’t these people crazy? Back you you, Dan.”

Ah, the press. They just never get it right. Most people at the con dress like anyone else. It’ a small percent that wear costumes, but they stick out. Most of those people are there to have fun. They’re letting their hair down for the weekend. It’s like Halloween for geeks.

Imagine if the press were actually fair minded (ROFL!), then you might see something like this: (more…)

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Tags: Film, hollywood, media, San Diego, San Diego Comic Con International
Posted Jul 27th 2009 at 5:34 pm in Culture, Entertainment | 19211849 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/07/27/san-diego-con-these-are-my-people/San+Diego+Comic-Con%3A+These+Are+My+People2009-07-28+00%3A34%3A38James+Hudnall

Michael Vick and PETA – a ‘Hollywood’ Marketers Dream?

Now infamous NFL quarterback Michael Vick’s prison term is over. He’s now a free man. Vick, of course, was involved in the cruel act of dog fighting, but most stories I’ve seen this week mostly revolve around his chances of making a football comeback (perhaps this is due to the amount of sports radio I listen to?).

Having played football myself, I can tell you Vick is incredibly talented. As a person of compassion, I can tell you he is still in need of continued rehabilitation – which makes for much speculation about which team(s) would be interested in having him in the huddle.

One “team” who seemed interested in having him in the huddle was PETA, a group so aggressive in their marketing methods that they put both Madison Avenue – and Hollywood – to shame.

As you may recall, they apparently proposed a bizarre idea a while back — Vick would appear in public service ads for the group. The ads would ostensibly serve to discourage the cruel practice of dog fighting, but they would also have been a major marketing coup for PETA, helping raise their profile — and, no doubt, lead to more members and national attention (and donations). (more…)

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Tags: celebrity, hollywood, Michael Vick, PETA
Posted Jul 23rd 2009 at 2:35 pm in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 19040250 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kblackwell/2009/07/23/michael-vick-and-peta-%e2%80%93-a-%e2%80%98hollywood%e2%80%99-marketers-dream/Michael+Vick+and+PETA+%E2%80%93+a+%E2%80%98Hollywood%E2%80%99+Marketers+Dream%3F2009-07-23+21%3A35%3A35Ken+Blackwell

Hollywood Deserves Better Than Henry Waxman

My Name is Ari David

Many of you have read my blogs. I have been a producer, writer and stand up comedian in LA for about 10 years. I am now taking on a new project by running for Congress and in so doing, challenging Henry Waxman for his seat.

A wise man once made the observation that all politics is local and a critical issue that I am challenging Henry Waxman on is how local television and film production are disappearing from the LA area.

Henry Waxman has been in office since 1975 and has presided over a massacre in the local entertainment business and been completely out of touch with the constituents’ needs on this issue. If a Congressman from any other district in the nation allowed a local mill or industry to go out of business or move away, that elected official would have had to answer to his constituents and would have been forced to pay attention to the local crisis and provide solutions and financial relief for the industry in order to preserve the jobs and livelihoods dependent upon the industry’s existence. Henry Waxman has done none of this and now is the time for the people of this district to show him the way to a new job and elect me, a leader who is in touch with the district’s needs to save and protect this industry.  (more…)

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Tags: Ari David, henry waxman, hollywood, Los Angeles, production
Posted Jul 21st 2009 at 5:03 am in Featured Story, Politics | 18564292 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/adavid/2009/07/21/had-enough-of-henry-waxman-yet/Hollywood+Deserves+Better+Than+Henry+Waxman+2009-07-21+12%3A03%3A03Ari+David

Hollywood’s Oxymoronic Definition of ‘Liberal Tolerance’

The left’s dominance over the media, entertainment and the classroom forms a triangular grip that seeks to denigrate and nullify intrinsic American values. Hollywood, in particular, shows an inability to embrace even a rudimentary understanding of opposing viewpoints, as celebrities who claim to be liberal and “open” continuously berate those who champion differing viewpoints.

Fortunately, the liberal seasoning that flavors Hollywood’s narcissistic lunacy has yet to permeate mainstream American society. While the ideologues that control Hollywood (not to mention the media and university classrooms) make it seem as though ultra-leftism trumped conservatism in a battle lost long ago, a surprising new poll shows that the plurality of Americans still see themselves as politically conservative. (more…)

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Tags: Black Eyed Peas, born-again Christian, Carrie Prejean, Cher, Gallup
Posted Jul 13th 2009 at 2:21 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 181778168 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bhallowell/2009/07/13/hollywoods-assault-on-free-speech/Hollywood%27s+Oxymoronic+Definition+of+%27Liberal+Tolerance%272009-07-13+21%3A21%3A55Billy+Hallowell

Moral Relativism; The Liberal Lynchpin

The vast majority of adults in this world know that moral perfection is absolutely impossible, so I get upset when self proclaimed Hollywood/MSM liberals ruthlessly attack any conservative that cannot do the impossible; avoid succumbing to temptation for their entire life. Hollywood/MSM liberals always use this angle to attack conservatives nationwide because by strongly believing in nothing specific they’ve set themselves up to perpetually come out on top of any moral argument, guilt, worry and public-scorn free.

In today’s Hollywood a famous liberal filmmaker could hire a hooker while shooting a $100,000,000 studio feature film, secretly charge it to the budget, snort coke in his trailer between shots and drop E at night without any real concern for condemnation or job loss if he’s caught, because, well, he never proclaimed to be on the side of good in the first place. Whereas a famous conservative Christian filmmaker (pretend with me here) caught doing the same thing would be ridiculed and kicked out of town for the hypocrisy of it all since, by being Christian, he openly admitted that kind of behavior is not the most desirable for himself and doesn’t set a very good example for the fans. (more…)

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Tags: drugs, hollywood, Hypocrisy, morality, prostitutes
Posted Jul 9th 2009 at 2:51 pm in Entertainment, Politics, Religion | 177038112 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmcgruther/2009/07/09/moral-relativism-the-liberal-lynchpin/Moral+Relativism%3B+The+Liberal+Lynchpin2009-07-09+21%3A51%3A12Michael+McGruther

Heroic Hollywood: Thinking Inside the Box

In this post, I want to give some advice to beginning screenwriters who are having difficulty finishing — or even starting — their first screenplay. I’ve been mulling over what to say for several weeks now, trying to come up with some inspirational words of advice to motivate you into achieving your goal. After much thought and deep-dish contemplation, I’ve boiled my advice down to this:

If you want to write for Hollywood, think like a
hack writer and stick to the Hollywood Formula.

How’s that for inspiring rhetoric?

Now, most “creative” types (that is, people who don’t actually have a job writing for Hollywood) will tell you that adhering to a formula is a bad thing because it stifles creativity. (more…)

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Tags: Dirty Harry, formula, Goldfinger, Heroic Hollywood, hollywood
Posted Jul 6th 2009 at 4:11 pm in Entertainment | 17675837 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/rdvonch/2009/07/06/heroic-hollywood-thinking-inside-the-box/Heroic+Hollywood%3A+Thinking+Inside+the+Box2009-07-06+23%3A11%3A05Russ+Dvonch

Charm Overcomes Comic Anarchy at U.S. Box Office

It will be a good thing if the Sandra Bullock romantic comedy The Proposal continues its box-office success–if Hollywood draws the right conclusions about why it did well.

The film had a rather surprisingly strong opening weekend at the U.S. box office, finishing on top of the heap with a take of $34.1 million in North American ticket sales.

It’s the first film starring Sandra Bullock in a decade to reach number one. Men accounted for a healthy 37 percent of the audience, according to Reuters. The film’s trailers and commercials strongly established the film as a by-the-books romantic comedy centered on a distinctly meager and unoriginal comic premise: female executive fakes engagement to her assistant in order to escape deportation (she’s from Canada). When she takes him to meet her family, hilarity ensues. (more…)

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Tags: charm, Classic Hollywood, Golden Age, hollywood, romantic comedy
Posted Jun 27th 2009 at 11:02 am in Entertainment, News | 1681142 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/stkarnick/2009/06/27/character-charm-overcomes-comic-anarchy-at-us-box-office/Charm+Overcomes+Comic+Anarchy+at+U.S.+Box+Office2009-06-27+18%3A02%3A11S.T.+Karnick

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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Tags: big hollywood, hollywood, Perez Hilton, Troopathon
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

Gold Star Mother: Debbie Lee

Hollywood Use Your Influence, Show Your Gratitude

Hollywood wake up! In case you hadn’t noticed or forgot, we have noble, courageous, brave, and selfless men and women serving heroically in Iraq and Afghanistan. My son Marc Alan Lee was one of those heroes. He was the first Navy SEAL to give his life fighting the war on terror in Iraq. His SEAL task-unit is the most highly decorated special-ops unit since Vietnam.

On Aug 2, 2006, he made the choice in an intense firefight to stand out in the direct line of fire three times to defend his buddies and the freedoms that he so loved and believed in. He did that for you and for every American so that you could continue to live in the “land of the free.” He was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart for his selfless and courageous actions that day. He was also posthumously awarded the Bronze Star with valor for his similar courageous actions on July 17-18, 2006. They’ve also named the base where he was in Ramadi ”Camp Marc Lee” in his honor.

I visited Camp Marc Lee in Iraq in December of 2008 when I spent Christmas thanking and honoring our heroes. I was embedded with the 1-4 Cav and went out on patrol several times in the Doura Neighborhood in Baghdad. I saw first hand the professionalism with which our heroes carry out their jobs. I saw their respect for the local Iraqis. I saw pictures of that neighborhood just the year before that resembled a ghost town. No children or people in the streets, no shops open, no cooperation from the locals with the US troops because Al Qaeda would kill them if they saw them talking to the troops.

When I walked on those same streets I couldn’t believe the difference. Children were playing in the streets and on the new playgrounds, 150 shops were open, the locals would come up and thank the troops for the changes they had made and the freedoms they had given them. I saw first hand the successes of our troops. (more…)

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Posted Jun 25th 2009 at 9:45 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Media Criticism, Military | 168798No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/gsmothers/2009/06/25/gold-star-mom-debbie-lee/Gold+Star+Mother%3A+Debbie+Lee2009-06-25+16%3A45%3A14Gold+Star+Mothers

Hollywood Good Guys: Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts

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Hollywood stars Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts, with their two children Samuel, 6, and Alexander, 1, recently visited Israel.

Schreiber said his grandfather was a strong Zionist who had always begged him to go to Israel. His grandfather died before he could make that happen, so this trip resonates for him. It may also have additional meaning following his most recent role as Zus Bielski in Defiance, the Holocaust movie recounting the Bielski brothers, Jewish partisans who lived and rebelled against the Nazis from a Bellarussian forest with a band of fellow refugees.

Schreiber recalls some intensely personal history: (more…)

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Tags: hollywood, Israel, Jewish National Fund, Liev Schreiber, naomi watts
Posted Jun 22nd 2009 at 5:04 am in Celebrity News, Politics, Religion | 164114One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ravrech/2009/06/22/liev-schreiber-and-naomi-watts-hollywood-good-guys/Hollywood+Good+Guys%3A+Liev+Schreiber+and+Naomi+Watts2009-06-22+12%3A04%3A15Robert+J.+Avrech