Boo-Hoo: Gays’ Lachrymose Last Resort in the War Against Mormons

There are more histrionics on display in the two-minute trailer (see below)for the pro-gay-marriage ”documentary,” 8: The Mormon Proposition, than in all the episodes of Oprah I can remember seeing.

A blonde woman, tears running down her face, looks into the camera and pleads, “Why did the Mormons do this to us?”

In a crowd of what I presume are gay activists (and not film goers), a young man sobs so hard that he has to be comforted by a female friend.

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A bulldyke (I’m guessing) stares out at the viewer, her despondent face sopping wet.

And one of the stars of the film, a pretty gay boy (and ex-Mormon) named Tyler Barrick – who seems have been inspired by Barbra Streisand in A Star Is Born – clings to his husband and bawls, “I can’t believe that people could hate us this much!” Really?  I can. (more…)

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Tags: 8: The Mormon Proposition, AIDS, Atlantis Cruises, Barbra Streisand, Christo-Fascists
Posted Oct 30th 2009 at 5:03 am in Culture, Featured Story, Film, Politics, Religion | 251290162 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/10/30/boo-hoo-gays-lachrymose-last-resort-in-the-war-against-mormons/Boo-Hoo%3A+Gays%27+Lachrymose+Last+Resort+in+the+War+Against+Mormons2009-10-30+12%3A03%3A41Charles+Winecoff

So, Now You Tell Us?!

I have always been fascinated and frustrated by the phenomenon in our public dialogue that when we get new information after a “debate” is deemed to be over, that the original dispute is never “reopened.”

For instance, when Barack Obama threw Rev. Jeremiah Wright “under the bus” a month after he was praised lustily by the media for not having done so in his famous “race” speech, the history of that event was never rewritten. Similarly, the dramatic positive impact of the surge in Iraq never came close to altering the media’s premature conclusion that the war there was a “disaster,” and the most recent data on the global temperature drop has done next to nothing to change the notion that the debate of global warming is “over.”

In the past week we have seen two classic examples of this quirk in the unwritten rules of media history.

The Obama/Oprah led flameout for Chicago’s hopes to host the 2016 Olympics certainly fits in this category. Much has already been said about the disastrous nature of this development from the economic and political perspectives. However, not nearly enough has been stated about how this event seems to prove that one of the basic foundations of the argument for Obama’s election was a complete lie.   (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, chicago, David Letterman, Jeremiah Wright, Megyn Fox
Posted Oct 7th 2009 at 6:44 am in Entertainment, Politics | 241538141 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jziegler/2009/10/07/so-now-you-tell-us/So%2C+Now+You+Tell+Us%3F%212009-10-07+13%3A44%3A58John+Ziegler

Enabling Celebrity Dysfunction (I Blame Oprah)

Just when it looks like Roman Polanski has re-set the bar for personal behavior so low that it’s practically subterranean, the late John Phillips comes along and somehow finds a way to slink underneath it.  Maybe.  Maybe, because his accuser is his own daughter Mackenzie Phillips, a drug addict since the mid-70s who is currently peddling her sordid tale of incest, heroin and general dysfunction to anyone with a lens and a microphone.

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Perhaps this junkie, who by her own admission had a decade-long affair with her own father starting at age 19, is not the most reliable witness.  On the other hand, considering the Hollywood community’s frantic defense of noted pedophile Polanski, it’s not too difficult to imagine how Mackenzie and her rock star father might have figured, “Well, we’re here, we’re high, we’re horny.  What’s some shared DNA between stars?”

I blame Oprah. (more…)

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Tags: Celebrity Dysfunction Complex, drugs, Jerry Springer, John Phillips, Lindsey Lohan
Posted Oct 7th 2009 at 5:07 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Featured Story | 23913496 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/10/07/enabling-celebrity-dysfunction/Enabling+Celebrity+Dysfunction+%28I+Blame+Oprah%292009-10-07+12%3A07%3A34Kurt+Schlichter

The Oprahfication of David Letterman

Sure, holding it all in might have taken 15 years off of our lives but at least when men were stoic they died with their dignity intact. Watching the once mighty David Letterman confess, apologize and then re-apologize like some narcissistic nobody who suddenly finds Oprah’s attention and camera on him is just another exhibit in the trial of How Far Men Have Fallen.

Compounding his mistake from last week, we got this last night:

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Of course Letterman didn’t think about how the media would hound every female who ever worked with him as he bared his precious soul for ten minutes last week. How could he when he was thinking only of himself? Anyone who spends ten minutes confessing their sexual indiscretions on national television obviously hasn’t yet figured out that everything isn’t all about him. If he had, he would’ve issued a short statement, taken the incoming fire without comment, and quietly and privately begged forgiveness from those he hurt. (more…)

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Tags: blackmail, David Letterman, late show, Oprah, Opraification
Posted Oct 6th 2009 at 3:42 pm in Celebrity News, Culture | 24167076 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/10/06/the-oprahfication-of-david-letterman/The+Oprahfication+of+David+Letterman2009-10-06+22%3A42%3A37John+Nolte

Whitney Didn’t Have it All

I watched Whitney Houston’s interview on Oprah and I did not have to wait until it was over to feel great sadness. Whitney burst out in to the scene with her first album when she was 22 years old, with a powerful singing voice like no other — intense, energetic and the ability to hit a gamut of notes. Unlike Michael Jackson, she was not thrust on to the stage by an overbearing father or competing for the spotlight with her siblings. She was raised a Baptist and had a very deep spirituality that she always mentioned whether she was receiving a Grammy or in a magazine interview.  So how did this woman who was esthetically flawless and had it all, wind up sitting on the couch smoking marijuana laced with cocaine for days on end.

I believe it was a few reasons. Firstly, she married the wrong man, Bobby Brown, we all knew that—yes, all of us who did not know her personally knew that he was trouble. He spoke like trouble, he acted like trouble and he got in trouble. They started their marriage with him already having three kids from two different women he wasn’t married to and had been known for his outrageous behavior. She stated that she took her vows very seriously, she truly loved him and he allowed her to bring out her fun and crazy side. I do believe she took her vows very seriously and truly loved him, this woman could have had any man on the planet, but the fun and crazy side I’m a little unclear on, bringing up my second point.   (more…)

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Tags: Bobby Brown, drugs, Oprah, Whitney Houston
Posted Sep 17th 2009 at 5:07 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Featured Story | 22706684 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ekaris/2009/09/17/whitney-didnt-have-it-all/Whitney+Didn%E2%80%99t+Have+it+All2009-09-17+12%3A07%3A01Ellen+Karis

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

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

Cultural Kleptos: How the Left Hijacks Art (and Everything Else) for the Good of Mankind

Kids love movies about people who tell lies – because they’re such naughty, little fibbers themselves.  During my formative years, it seemed like the same two films were on TV everyday when I came home from school – to remind me of the dangers of mendacity.  Perhaps it was a portent of things to come.

William Wyler’s “The Children’s Hour” (1961)

One was Weird Woman (1944), a neglected camp classic that was part of Universal’s low-budget Inner Sanctum series - about a scorned librarian (scream queen Evelyn Ankers) who seeks revenge on her ex- (Lon Chaney Jr.) by spreading gossip about his new wife (Anne Gwynne), an all-American voodoo princess he met on a South Seas expedition (don’t ask).

After several people inadvertently die as a result of Ankers’s aspersions, Chaney and gang steal a move straight out of the Democratic playbook - they devise an elaborate, fear-mongering ruse to guilt her into submission (and make her confess).  Here’s a clip of Ankers being browbeaten – with prophecies of gloom and doom – by little-known B-actress Elizabeth Russell: (more…)

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Tags: Anne Gwynne, audrey hepburn, Cairo, Charles Bronson, Dashell Hammett
Posted Jul 30th 2009 at 5:03 am in Classic Hollywood, Culture, Featured Story, Politics | 18642669 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/07/30/cultural-kleptos-how-the-left-hijacks-art-and-everything-else-for-the-good-of-mankind/Cultural+Kleptos%3A+How+the+Left+Hijacks+Art+%28and+Everything+Else%29+for+the+Good+of+Mankind2009-07-30+12%3A03%3A16Charles+Winecoff

Britain to America: ‘Don’t Let This Happen to You!’

When I was a kid, American Idol wasn’t even a twinkle in Simon Cowell’s eye.  No, instead of Adam Lambert’s girly warbling, we listened to wrinkled pacifist Walter Cronkite rattle off the US body count as we ate our TV dinners.  (Thank God for I Love Lucy re-runs.)

But Vietnam wasn’t the only war raging.  There was a culture clash going on too, right in the privacy of our own home: the ’60s counterculture – seen in everything from Easy Rider to The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour - versus our deeply ingrained Anglophilia.  In other words, a tug of war between “social justice” and the Social Register.

Decades before it became cool to diss the Queen with an iPod, the Royals represented everything Americans were not, and never could be: educated, sophisticated, multi-lingual, above carrying cash – and worldly enough to know one doesn’t clean one’s antiques (think no housework).  Growing up in our comfy, middle class, anti-war household, I never knew if I was supposed to say “burn, baby, burn!” or “sod off, yank.”

This dichotomy took a psychic toll, which came to a head when I did my part for the revolution by proudly shoplifting a ballpoint pen from our local Lamston’s (”the establishment”).  To my amazement, my parents were not pleased.  Instead of a gold star, I received a verbal barrage of uncharacteristic cliches (”Do you think we send you to the best schools so you can steal?” ) that left me even more confused. (more…)

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Tags: "fitna", 30 rock, 9/11, Adam Lambert, Alexander Stoddart
Posted Jun 12th 2009 at 5:03 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 1487026 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/06/12/britain-to-america-dont-let-this-happen-to-you/Britain+to+America%3A+%27Don%27t+Let+This+Happen+to+You%21%272009-06-12+12%3A03%3A42Charles+Winecoff

‘NewsBusted’ 6/09/09 — Fake News from the Right

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Tags: angelina jolie, David Gergen, Dick Cheney, Homeless Condos, nancy pelosi
Posted Jun 9th 2009 at 8:03 pm in Political Humor, Video | 155098No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/06/09/%e2%80%98newsbusted%e2%80%99-60909-%e2%80%94-fake-news-from-the-right/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+6%2F09%2F09+%E2%80%94+Fake+News+from+the+Right2009-06-10+03%3A03%3A03NewsBusters

The Days of Swine and Moses

A lot has happened in fourteen days — since Friday, the 24th of April — when the wires started buzzing 24/7 about the “Swine Flu.”

Oh wait, my bad. Now it’s the much more politically correct, H1N1 (Dems can’t offend the porcine population, they might need Porky Pig or pro-choice Miss Piggy to vote in 2010 and 2012).

In the meanwhile, a lot of stories haven’t been covered nearly enough outside of blogs and Fox News. Oddly, the vast majority of these stories seem to be things Obama God, Jr. wants to keep quiet. Here’s a not so exhaustive list: (more…)

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Tags: Bank of America, biden, budget, bush, DC voucher program
Posted May 7th 2009 at 4:15 pm in Political Humor | 1295424 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/moxie/2009/05/07/the-days-of-swine-and-moses/The+Days+of+Swine+and+Moses2009-05-07+23%3A15%3A26Moxie

Madonna’s Adoption Quest: Mission of Mercy or Latest Publicity Stunt?

Despite being told “no” regarding her bid to adopt a second child from Malawi, Madonna remains hopeful that her appeal will be successful. She wants what amounts to a companion piece to little David, the boy she adopted from that nation in 2006. That adoption had its problems, as critics said she used her wealth and fame to skirt laws that prevent non-Malawian citizens from adopting.

The idea that she wants to give little Mercy “a home, a loving family environment and the best education and health-care possible” is admirable. But if her final goal is, as she says, to give David and Mercy the tools they need to “one day return to Malawi and help the people of their country,” why doesn’t she just stick with the school she is planning on building? Or perhaps invest in the local economy, providing jobs for parents who are unable to adequately care for their own children? Wouldn’t that go further than holding what amounts to a kind of lottery and then whisking the lucky winners away to a fantasyland of luxury? (more…)

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Tags: angelina jolie, Christian Toto, Lourdes, madonna, Malawi
Posted Apr 14th 2009 at 1:31 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 105074No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2009/04/14/madonnas-adoption-quest-mission-of-mercy-or-latest-publicity-stunt/Madonna%27s+Adoption+Quest%3A+Mission+of+Mercy+or+Latest+Publicity+Stunt%3F2009-04-14+20%3A31%3A12Pam+Meister

Celebutard of the Week: Madonna

This is an emergency Madonna update, a warning that the one-time Material Girl has turned from a bra-baring, Britney-slurping, intercourse-simulating extrovert into a greedy baby-collector. At mid-life, an unmarried Madonna is, right now, in the African nation of Malawi, choosing a matched child to go along with the tot she already purchased from the African nation like so much luggage, David Banda.

This is why Madonna is my Celebutard of the Week, in keeping with my book, “Celebutards: the Hollywood Hacks, Limousine Liberals and Pandering Politicians Who Are Destroying America,” (Kensington).

Madonna is asking a judge to let her adopt 4-year-old Mercy James, a child who, like David, has a biological father but no mother. Her grandmother was incensed. (more…)

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Tags: Guy Ritchie, illegal adoption, madonna, Malawi adoption, Oprah
Posted Mar 30th 2009 at 11:21 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 92538One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/apeyser/2009/03/30/celebutard-of-the-week-madonna-4/Celebutard+of+the+Week%3A+Madonna+2009-03-30+18%3A21%3A40Andrea+Peyser

Platitudes are not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things

The other day I was stuck in traffic behind a young woman whose rear bumper sported three popular cries for help: Hope, Free Tibet, and Save the Planet.  Her ass was covered.

For some reason, it made me think of my late grandmother, an English rose with a backbone of steel – what us Americans call a “tough cookie.”  As a young divorcee, she single-handedly raised my mother, and took care of her own mother, through the Great Depression and beyond.

I used to love asking her about all the events she’d seen take place in her lifetime: the rise of the automobile, the night of Orson Welles’s famous War of the Worlds broadcast, the blackouts during WW2, the “Stars Over America” war bond blitz (which even Hollywood nonconformist Bette Davis threw herself into), the arrival of television, and on and on.

As a boy, it seemed to me my grandmother had lived many lives, and seen more sweeping, historical changes than I could ever dream of.  I had missed the boat. (more…)

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Tags: AOL, Blackberry, bumper stickers, change, Che
Posted Feb 2nd 2009 at 10:00 am in Media Criticism, Politics | 3496645 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/02/02/platitudes-are-not-healthy-for-children-and-other-living-things/Platitudes+are+not+Healthy+for+Children+and+Other+Living+Things2009-02-02+18%3A00%3A49Charles+Winecoff

Scientology Incorporated

So it’s after a gig*, and I’m sitting at the bar with another comic, and a couple of girls who thought we were the funniest guys they had ever met. Things are heating up, but I’m starting to feel a little apprehensive because it’s just too easy. When I don’t have to work at something, I always start to wonder if there’s something wrong. Either I’m about to be robbed, or there’s a flaw I haven’t noticed.

The conversation turns to Scientology. There had recently been a expose in Time magazine (and astute readers can now speculate on how long ago this was). “It’s a really evil institution,” I start, “Kind of a cross between the Mafia and Oral Roberts with just a dash of the Manson Family.”

The girl who had been getting all my attention chuckled condescendingly, “Well, I read that Kirstie Alley is a Scientologist, and I don’t think Kirstie Alley would belong to anything like that!” (more…)

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Tags: cult, kirstie alley, Oprah, ronald reagan, Scientology
Posted Jan 30th 2009 at 6:20 am in Celebrity News | 2992945 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tslagle/2009/01/30/l-ronald-reagan/Scientology+Incorporated2009-01-30+14%3A20%3A08Tim+Slagle

What Goes Around…

Here’s what it was like growing up in New York City in the 1960s and ’70s – and keep in mind, I grew up in a penthouse with a fabulous view of downtown Manhattan, the Hudson River, and the Statue of Liberty:

• Under cover of night, all the buildings would incinerate trash, sending enormous clouds of black smoke billowing into the air.  Consequently, there was always a layer of soot on anything that didn’t keep moving.  Very Dickensian.
• Despite the fact that it rained constantly, and our roof leaked nonstop, there was always a water shortage.  If it’s yellow, let it mellow; if it’s brown, flush it down was the unforgettable mantra one fine summer. (more…)

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Tags: Al Gore, automobiles, bicycles, climate change, environmentalism
Posted Jan 23rd 2009 at 10:16 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 2762116 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/01/23/what-goes-around/What+Goes+Around...2009-01-23+18%3A16%3A59Charles+Winecoff

Dead, Divorced, Married, Pregnant, Or In Jail

I saw “Gran Torino” finally and it put me in a mood. I see where Paris Hilton says she’s only slept with “a couple of people;” but I’m guessing it’s because the rest of them told her to leave right after.

My only 2009 resolution is to lose weight, so I ordered the paperback version of “The Best Life Diet,” which is by Oprah Winfrey’s trainer Bob Greene. The bad news is the shipping weight was somewhere between 140 and 320 pounds. (more…)

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Tags: Global warming, Jack Black, jennifer anniston, Oprah, Pumas
Posted Jan 17th 2009 at 8:30 am in Celebrity News | 1881318 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/rlconover/2009/01/17/dead-divorced-married-pregnant-or-in-jail/Dead%2C+Divorced%2C+Married%2C+Pregnant%2C+Or+In+Jail2009-01-17+16%3A30%3A52Rodney+Lee+Conover