True Colors: A Race Discussion With Isaiah Washington

What is going on in America? How is that we have elected our first half black, half white president and race relations seem to be getting worse? Could it be that no matter what we do the color of one’s skin will always be a factor in the way someone judges us?  I was recently judged on Facebook not only by the color of my skin but by the fact that my name has an “Mc” in it by none other than Isaiah Washington. (Yes the same Isaiah Washington that was let go from “Grey’s Anatomy” after making a gay slur on set and offending his cast members. Click the link in case you forgot about this. Isaiah Washington apologizes.

First of all, a little history. I’m a Facebook friend of Isaiah Washington’s and added him because we were in the film “Clockers” together. I had a very small part but seeing him work I knew how dedicated and talented he was and wanted to keep up with his career. I think he has quite a few fan/friends like myself. But I’m also deeply concerned about the direction race relations are going in our country and when he posted this article on on his page I clicked through and read it with great interest.

After reading Mr. Washington’s link I posted a reply link to Bill Whittle’s  PJTV segment “The Great Liberal Narrative. The Truth about the Tyranny of Political Correctness,” and then added this note for Mr. Washington: (more…)

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Tags: bill whittle, Isaiah Washington, Michael McGruther, PJTV, race relations
Posted Sep 4th 2009 at 4:41 pm in Celebrity News, Culture, Featured Story, Politics | 216602211 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmcgruther/2009/09/04/true-colors/True+Colors%3A+A+Race+Discussion+With+Isaiah+Washington2009-09-04+23%3A41%3A41Michael+McGruther

Drink My Red Blood!

Hollywood is at it again, pulling out all the stops on a genre and twisting it to promote their backwards value system of unbridled debauchery while at the same time taking a swipe at conservatives and more importantly, people of faith.

In this NY Times article titled “Necks Overflowing With Rivers of Metaphor,” the argument is gleefully made that the vampire genre is the perfect platform to expose the idiocy of the right and our strange repulsion against poor vampires who merely want to fuck all night and sleep all day.

You want to see an accurate portrayal of the modern day leftist liberal, using the vampire genre correctly? Watch my very first short film that I wrote, produced, directed and edited back in 2005 on pocket change, in 5 days in rural New Jersey using a digital camera and all unknown actors.

It is based on a short story by Richard Matheson titled “Drink My Red Blood” and what compelled me to make it was one scene in particular where the lead character, Jules, shares his composition in school called “My Ambition.” The movie is 15 minutes long. I broke it into two parts and uploaded it to YouTube for you to watch (NSFW). (more…)

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Tags: Blood Son, Hollywood agenda, Liberal Vampires, Michael McGruther, NY Times
Posted Aug 30th 2009 at 2:52 pm in Culture, Politics, Video | 21301473 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmcgruther/2009/08/30/drink-my-red-blood/Drink+My+Red+Blood%212009-08-30+21%3A52%3A35Michael+McGruther

‘Meet John Doe’ and the Old Fakearoo

Dear Reader,

Do you have a little time to sit back and examine a classic movie that will absolutely shock you when seen through the prism of now? This is not my typical short article or essay. This is my own argument that what occurs in the 1941 picture “Meet John Doe” is exactly what has come to pass in America today with the Democratic Congress and their Presidential puppet. All the players and plays are clearly represented here and I was lucky enough to find the entire movie available on YouTube in small 7-10 minute scenes. I have selected only the scenes that I feel you must watch. But please, by all means, Netflix this movie before someone bans it.

“Meet John Doe” was released in 1941, written by Robert Riskin and based upon a treatment titled “The Life and Death of John Doe,” written by Richard Connell and Robert Presnell.  The film was directed by Frank Capra. The plot of the movie clearly shows how a media conspiracy could get a President elected and use him to “turn out the lights on freedom.” The similarity between the movie’s plot and today’s political situation is surreal. Add in the fact that Gary Cooper’s “John Doe” is modeled after Jesus Christ and you’ll be even more chilled at how a power hungry, ruthless political party figures out how to use a fake version of Him for their own gain. The claim by liberals that this is the practice of the religious right will be shattered once you’ve watched all the clips posted here. (more…)

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Tags: Barbara Stanwyck, Capra Corn, conservative hollywood, D.B. Norton, Edward Arnold
Posted Jun 30th 2009 at 11:10 am in Classic Hollywood | 860382 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmcgruther/2009/06/30/the-old-fakearoo/%27Meet+John+Doe%27+and+the+Old+Fakearoo2009-06-30+18%3A10%3A19Michael+McGruther

We Must Protect the ‘Shining City’

With Washington and Hollywood acting with one unified radically liberal voice for the first time in American history, it’s become crystal clear that what the Democrats really want is simply to rule the world.

It was reported recently that box office receipts rose to a record $28.1 billion with 65% of that take coming from foreign countries. Bottom line, Hollywood is all about money and no one denies that. But now that the good old U.S.A. represents the smaller market share it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the studios couldn’t care less what kind of anti-American low-brow product the town’s liberal elite continue to produce and promote. (more…)

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Tags: Bill Clinton, Immigration, Michael McGruther, Obama, Reagan
Posted Apr 7th 2009 at 8:07 am in Politics | 9447872 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmcgruther/2009/04/07/democrats-just-want-to-rule-the-world/We+Must+Protect+the+%27Shining+City%272009-04-07+15%3A07%3A44Michael+McGruther

JFK Understood: ‘Free and Independent’

Whenever I stumble upon any media about JFK I’m always struck by how conservative he really was. By today’s standards, this speech would put President Kennedy squarely on the side of the Republican/Libertarian movement politically and on the receiving end of liberal media attacks worldwide. In an alternate reality I can imagine a young JFK giving this speech at CPAC as he preps for a White House run. Listen to this chilling warning about what we all know has already come to pass in Europe and is quickly creeping its way into mainstream American life unless we citizens act now to stop this train and derail it back into the ash heap of history.

President Bush’s 8 years in office was like someone taking a stick to a hornets nest that nobody knew still existed. He whacked it good and then paid the price with poisonous stings all over everything he tried to do. But the rest of us out there saw how the press and mainstream media reacted to him and that is how we came to clearly see what we’re really up against in the battle for America’s future. (more…)

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Tags: 2010 election, 2012 election, baby boomers, capitalism, JFK
Posted Mar 30th 2009 at 2:59 pm in Media Criticism, Politics, Video | 91634No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmcgruther/2009/03/30/free-and-independent/JFK+Understood%3A+%27Free+and+Independent%272009-03-30+21%3A59%3A52Michael+McGruther

The Faithful Go To Church, The Rest Go To Therapy

At the very heart of the Christian way of life is the belief that we individual Christians, no matter what our faith, can best effect society with gentle nudges towards God by living a Christ-like life the best we possibly can, while recognizing at the same time that there has in fact only ever been one real Christian to walk the Earth – Jesus.  We’re not capable of that kind of perfection. We know this. We are merely asked to try.

Secularists don’t know that simple fact about faith and feel threatened by their own ignorance, which quickly spirals into enmity as a defense against what they deeply fear is the truth. After all, Pride is what made the Devil. And the Devil’s main goal is your total separation from any kind of relationship with God, which can easily be described as anxiety, loneliness, fear, panic attacks, suicide…anything to get you away from sincerely trying to follow God. In other words, people of faith go to church while secularists go to therapy.   (more…)

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Tags: c.s. lewis, devil, God, hollywood, mere christianity
Posted Mar 15th 2009 at 6:57 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 79706237 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmcgruther/2009/03/15/a-guide-to-recognizing-your-sinners/The+Faithful+Go+To+Church%2C+The+Rest+Go+To+Therapy2009-03-15+13%3A57%3A27Michael+McGruther

DVD Review: Amexicano

Just when you thought American independent cinema was dead and gobbled up by the majors, here comes two strong, new voices straight outta Brooklyn (and Queens), Matthew Bonifacio and Carmine Famiglhetti, the director and writer/star of “Amexicano,” a low budget indie feature (and I mean truly indie) that has the power to make you feel compassion where you thought you had none, and will likely make you and whomever you’re watching it with, argue about the very topic that is so central to its plot but not really what the movie is about — illegal immigration.   (more…)

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Tags: brooklyn queens experiment, carmine famiglhetti, catholic mexicans, illegal immigration, matthew bonifacio
Posted Feb 12th 2009 at 9:58 am in Entertainment, Politics, Reviews | 1677346 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmcgruther/2009/02/12/amexicano-dvd-review-wip-working/DVD+Review%3A+Amexicano2009-02-12+17%3A58%3A44Michael+McGruther

Will the Conservative Money Men Please Stand Up

On the eve of the 2004 election, I had a business lunch in Manhattan with the author of a book I had optioned for the big screen. Up until then, I had no idea how liberal he was. As a matter of fact, this was when I was just starting to understand the differences between myself and many of the people in my life. I’d just flown in from L.A., so despite the highly politicized climate left behind in Hollywood, in good old New York the election was a non-topic … until his cell phone rang.

This is what I overheard him say: “He’s going to back us? Yes! That’s F@$%^ great! We’re going show these Republicans how we play. They’re not even going to know what hit them. We will do some serious damage because this is war now — we’re playing for keeps!”  (more…)

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Tags: George Soros, Media Matters for America, Michael McGruther, Republican Hollywood
Posted Feb 6th 2009 at 8:35 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 3735457 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmcgruther/2009/02/06/will-the-conservative-money-men-please-stand-up/Will+the+Conservative+Money+Men+Please+Stand+Up2009-02-06+16%3A35%3A16Michael+McGruther

George Bailey Wasn’t Born Here

Simple beginnings

We all get into show business for the right reasons — because we love entertainment and want to have a hand in creating that special magic. I don’t think anyone begins down the road to Hollywood because they feel the urgent need to inject politics into their work in order to change the world. I certainly didn’t. And I bet George Clooney wasn’t thinking that way when he was on the set of “Facts of Life” for the first time at the start of his career. 

I started young, first as an actor, and now a writer. This is the only thing I have ever pursued and I have been at it since the day I left my small town in the summer of 1991. The Reagan/Bush era was coming to a close and I voted for Bill Clinton in 92 because as a reasonable person who watched the six o’clock news I could tell we needed something fresh. It was the first year I was old enough to vote and I was very excited to do it. However, in all those years that I was booking commercials or bit parts in movies and TV, no one ever made a peep about politics. To me politics was something separate and pretty boring compared to the dream I was after. If you asked me back then which political party my friends belonged to, I couldn’t tell you who was a Republican or who was a Democrat because it just wasn’t an issue.  

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Posted Jan 13th 2009 at 2:10 pm in Entertainment, Media Criticism | 790538 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmcgruther/2009/01/13/up-on-the-big-screen/George+Bailey+Wasn%27t+Born+Here2009-01-13+22%3A10%3A50Michael+McGruther

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

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

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

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

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

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Tags: Andrew Klavan, Ben Shapiro, big hollywood, bill whittle, Bill Willingham
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