Alec Baldwin’s Race Card Game

After enduring another self immolating Bill Maher monologue on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Alec Baldwin was asked if Rush Limbaugh is a racist. To which Alec fell into that trap so many of his peers have in recent days:

“I think you need to always distinguish the rank and file of the Republican Party and conservatives and voters from their media representation and media stars and I believe that the people who are in the media and prominent in the media in the conservative community, speaking on behalf of the Republican Party, have a very clear racist stripe through their commentary, consistently. Not just Limbaugh but all of those people. But I don’t think that their rank and file Republicans are like that.”

Well, at least he didn’t accuse all Republicans. I guess he wanted them to keep some of them watching his show.

If there’s a sure fire way to look old and busted in today’s media world it’s to make the sweeping generalization that people who disagree with your politics are racist. It’s such a 20th Century argument. Calling someone a racist with no proof is hack. It’s like calling someone evil just because they don’t agree with you. Oh, wait–the race card hustlers do that too! They look for any evidence they can, no matter how vague or slight, to blow up into an incident. And if they can’t find one, well, they just make it up. (more…)

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Tags: Al Sharpton, alec baldwin, Limbaugh, Obama, race
Posted Oct 20th 2009 at 10:05 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 24941488 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/10/20/alec-baldwins-race-card-game/Alec+Baldwin%27s+Race+Card+Game2009-10-20+17%3A05%3A57James+Hudnall

Lonewolf Diaries: Europe Waaaaay More Racist Than America

You may be asking… “Really? I know the title is meant to be provocative, but do you REALLY think Europeans are more racist than Americans?”

 The correct answer is: Abso-freaking-lutely! Have you ever spent time with French, Irish or Eastern Block folk? The prejudice is often laughably absurd.

Before you go and point the finger, let me state that I am completely aware of the irony in that previous statement (lumping everyone into one category while labeling them “prejudice”). However, since we’re dealing with the mythical “racist redneck” generalization that is frequently tossed at Americans, I’m going to speak of Europe as a whole simply to save time. (more…)

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Tags: America, europe, race, racist
Posted Oct 13th 2009 at 5:36 pm in Politics | 245846176 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/10/13/lonewolf-diaries-europe-is-waaaaay-more-racist-than-america/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+Europe+Waaaaay+More+Racist+Than+America2009-10-14+00%3A36%3A53Steven+Crowder

‘Non-Liberal’ Mamet In For Big Year on Broadway

“I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.” – David Mamet

As I discussed in my very first post here at Big Hollywood, many in the theatre world were surprised to read David Mamet’s amazing article, “Why I am No Longer A Brain-Dead Liberal” in the Village Voice.  In my post, I used the play “Oleanna” as an example of a conservative lean that I recognized in Mamet’s work when it premiered off-Broadway in 1992.  I concluded with a couple of questions: (more…)

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Tags: broadway, david mamet, NY Times, oleanna, race
Posted Oct 9th 2009 at 2:55 pm in Politics, Theatre | 24145440 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/10/09/non-liberal-mamet-in-for-big-year-on-broadway/%27Non-Liberal%27+Mamet+In+For+Big+Year+on+Broadway2009-10-09+21%3A55%3A02Stage+Right

There Is a New Movement…

…and it is us!

We are proud! We are united! We are loyal! We are kind and giving! We are decent! We are diverse! We are always seeking to improve ourselves and lift others! We are always the first ones to show up in time of need-anywhere in the world! We are the most powerful country in the world-but we are not bullies! We are family! We are friends and neighbors!  We are Americans and we are without a doubt the best example of a free people the world has ever seen-period.

We are ready to let our voices be heard-loud and clear! We are going to show up whenever and wherever we are called to defend ourselves. We are going to defend all patriotic Americans against slander and libel, in and out of court with both our presence and our pocketbooks. We are going to show up in unprecedented numbers and vote out the garbage, both left and right, that claim to represent us but prove otherwise-time and time again. We are energized, organized, determined and willing to stand up against the lies, intimidation, corruption, media manipulation and government fraud that is and has been perpetrated against us for too long now. We are especially ready to fight and stop any and all efforts that are currently being taken to separate us from our constitutional rights! (more…)

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Tags: America, Barack Obama, Obama, ObamaCare, President Obama
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Dave Matthews’ Politics of Racial Paranoia

“Honky,” “cracker,” “whitey,” “spot,” “the white guy” and “my white nigga” are a few of the words and phrases used to describe me by fellow co-workers (along with a few white jokes told to my face on the set of a film) I co-starred in called “Caught Up” in 1998. I was in fact the only principal white actor on a set dominated by black actors, a black director, a black writer and a predominantly black crew. Not once did I think I was being treated in a racist manor. I just felt it was okay for blacks to describe me this way having been led to believe that I owed them this bit of racial jabbing because I, as a white individual, had something to do with the racism they’d experienced throughout their lives.

If the tables had been turned and a predominantly white cast and crew used such racially charged language to describe a black cast member, the Screen Actors Guild would have invaded that production and we would have seen headlines in the media “Racist Cast and Crew, Film Shut Down By SAG.”

In that film one of my scripted lines required that I use the word “nigger.” Before I shot the scene I pulled my fellow actor aside and assured him that this was not a word I took lightly and that I was aware of its historical implications towards blacks. He looked me over as if I were an alien and said “Give me a break, I don’t give shit, I’ve been a nigger all my life. I’m cool with it.” That response came to me as a mixed signal. Not one that said it was okay for me to use the word “nigger,” but one that said my efforts at trying to understand his side of race didn’t matter. (more…)

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Tags: Dave Matthews, Jimmy Carter, Obama, race, racism
Posted Sep 28th 2009 at 11:32 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Politics | 23349897 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jlindsey/2009/09/28/dave-matthews-politics-of-racial-paranoia/Dave+Matthews%27+Politics+of+Racial+Paranoia2009-09-28+18%3A32%3A03Joseph+Lindsey

Why Were the Emmys Not ‘Racist’?

I am no fan of awards shows. To me, it is one of the strongest proofs of the weakness of our society that the endeavor to which we give the most prominent and glamorous honors is that of movie and television “acting” (or, to paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, “Saying what someone else told you to say”).

I also abhor false or frivolous claims of racism. Of course, according to the media, the end of this scourge was supposed to be of the many dividends of making Barack Obama President, but those of us on the right certainly know this has so far turned out to be one of many lies we were told during the 2008 campaign.  (more…)

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Tags: Bill Maher, black television, Emmys, Golden Age, hbo
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The Ghost Of Ronald Reagan

“Let’s take a break fellas, I am sick of being in damage control mode. I gotta kick it for a few minutes” President Obama complained .

“Okay everyone, let’s leave the President alone for a bit of a rest” announces the President’s chief of staff, then whispering into his bosses ear he adds: “I think in a few days, our pals at CBS, NBC and ABC will have some surprises for them and this onslaught will stop. It’s just real tough trying to get anything on this Big Hollywood/Big Government bunch, they’re all pretty clean, even that nut Mannix.” (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, george w. bush, health care, Obama, ObamaCare
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They’re More Than Nuts, They’re ACORN…

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Tags: abortion, ACORN, corruption, race, Sowell
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The NEA: Defending the Indefensible

It was so much fun watching the ACORN people try and spin their way out of oblivion for the last couple of weeks.  After the first video was posted on Big Government.com they, of course, claimed it was an isolated incident and that the filmmakers were kicked out of numerous other ACORN offices.  When that proved to be false, they tried in vain to claim that the videos were faked and that their employees were the victims of CGI or something and not of their own stupidity and corruption.  When that didn’t work they claimed that the filmmakers, Andrew Breitbart and the entire Fox News network were racist.  Yawn.

NEA’s Yosi Sergant

Monday, we have the NEA under the microscope.  The Obama Administration was caught red-handed (is that “racist”?) funneling tax payer dollars into an official propaganda department.  I can’t wait to see what the excuse will be this time.

These people have mastered the art of defending the indefensible.

Let’s set aside the stupidity of this move.  Anyone familiar with the NEA knows that it pretty much exists to fund leftist propaganda disguised as art.  Officially coordinating it is a bit redundant. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Aldo Raine, Andrew Breitbart, biggovernment.com, Cap and Trade
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 5:03 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 23072655 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/09/23/the-nea-defending-the-indefensible/The+NEA%3A+Defending+the+Indefensible2009-09-23+12%3A03%3A35Leigh+Scott

The Tragedy of the Unconstrained Vision

One of the great adventures in current human understanding is the search for the Grand Unified Theory of physics… an attempt at a construct that explains both quantum mechanics on one end of the scale and gravity on the other – one that brings the four forces of the universe: the strong and weak nuclear force, gravity and electromagnetism – all together into one big comfy equation (or set of equations.) 

Thomas Sowell

I mention this because not too long ago I started reading A CONFLICT OF VISIONS by Thomas Sowell, and as I did, I started to get the sense that Sowell may have developed a Grand Unified Theory of politics, because he went (as usual) right to the core of the issue: beyond Republican / Democrat, beyond Conservative / Liberal… all the way down to the brass tacks of why people believe what they believe. — VIDEO BELOW THE FOLD…  (more…)

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Tags: A CONFLICT OF VISIONS, Grand Unified Theory, race, Thomas Sowell
Posted Sep 22nd 2009 at 5:05 pm in Politics, Video | 23337046 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bwhittle/2009/09/22/the-tragedy-of-the-unconstrained-vision/The+Tragedy+of+the+Unconstrained+Vision2009-09-23+00%3A05%3A22Bill+Whittle

Meet the Cry-Wolf Racists: Dowd, Garofalo, Carter

What do actor/comic Janeane Garofalo, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and former President Jimmy Carter all have in common?  They commit racism in the name of fighting it, but still expect to be taken seriously.  In short, their grasp of self-awareness has the finely tuned grip of a yak opening a jar of jelly.  

Our health care debate has fortunately exposed much ugliness too long ignored.  Like most political animals (elephants or donkeys), these three give a pass to their own for that which they never tolerate from others.  They’re the kind of individuals rightly scorned by Shakespeare’s Antonio in The Merchant of Venice when he said, “Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath,” Act I, Scene iii.  More specifically, Garofalo, Dowd and Carter have morphed into the very beings most of us loathe – those who accuse others of the very evil they have done themselves.  They are cry-wolf racists.   (more…)

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Tags: Carter, Cry-Wolf Racists, Dowd, Garofalo, Obama
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Barack Obama on Letterman

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Obama on Jimmy Carter: “I think it’s important to realize that I was actually black before the election… So the American people I think gave me this extraordinary honor and that tells you I think a lot about where the country’s at.”

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Tags: Jimmy Carter, Late Night, late show, letterman, Obama
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Racial Schizophrenia

Speaking to NBC News Anchor Brian Williams, former president Jimmy Carter (who was taking a breather between having tea with dictators and lunatics) proffered that not only was South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson’s inappropriate outburst during President Obama’s speech before a joint session of congress fueled by racism, but the wider opposition to Obama is also based on the fact that Obama is black. Said Carter: “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American.”

During Obama’s 400th speech defending his plans to reform healthcare the president responded to charges that the proposals before congress would provide healthcare for illegal immigrants. The President called the charges false whereupon Wilson forgot his home training (or lost his mind) and called the President a liar.

As it happens, similar words were falling from my own lips at that very same moment. I think most people recognize that a private citizen calling the President a liar in the privacy of their living rooms is rather a different animal from elected officials doing so during a Presidential address. I would also like to believe that most thinking people recognize that boorish is not the same thing as racist. (more…)

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Tags: associated press, healthcare, Jimmy Carter, Joe Wilson, Obama
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 8:33 pm in News, Politics | 23227043 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2009/09/21/racial-schizophrenia/Racial+Schizophrenia2009-09-22+03%3A33%3A45Joseph+C.+Phillips

Daily Gut: Aversive Racism

So after witnessing the waves of antipathy across the country toward President Obama’s policies, New York Times writer Charles Blow introduces his readers to the term, “aversive racism.” It’s a sinister kind of prejudice, Charles explains, that reveals itself in disagreements based on factors “other than race.”

A simpler definition of aversive racism?

If you say it’s not about race, then it’s really about race.

See: if you’re against socialized medicine, it’s really because our President, who’s for it, is black. If you’re against the redistribution of wealth because it goes against your own beliefs in free markets and individual achievement – it’s because Obama is black. If you’ve done a lot of research on global warming, and decided it’s hypothetical hooey – that belief is now racist, since Obama buys into climate change hysteria. (more…)

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Tags: Aversive Racism, Charles Blow, climate change, free markets, Global warming
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 7:56 pm in Daily Gut, Politics | 23203449 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/09/21/daily-gut-aversive-racism/Daily+Gut%3A+Aversive+Racism2009-09-22+02%3A56%3A28Greg+Gutfeld

Real Racism: Lessons in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

My name is Bob Ewell. We’re all Bob Ewells if you check with the Left and their media mouthpieces.

Who is Bob Ewell? Well, if you’ve ever watched the movie To Kill a Mockingbird, you’d know that Ewell is the racist character who destroyed the life of an innocent man.

To Kill A Mockingbird is a classic American film, based on Harper Lee’s novel of life in 1936 Alabama and racial injustice that resided there. (more…)

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Tags: 'To Kill a Mockingbird', Bob Ewells, harper Lee, Jimmy Carter. Left, Joe Wilson
Posted Sep 19th 2009 at 2:55 pm in Classic Hollywood, Culture, Politics | 22863088 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/asking/2009/09/19/race-lessons-in-to-kill-a-mockingbird/Real+Racism%3A+Lessons+in+%27To+Kill+a+Mockingbird%272009-09-19+21%3A55%3A44Andrea+Shea+King

Bill Cosby: ‘Racism is playing a role in recent outbursts against President Obama.’

From Cosby’s Facebook page:

I agree with President Carter that racism is playing a role in recent outbursts against President Obama. During President Obama’s speech on the status of health care reform, some members of congress engaged in a public display of disrespect. While one Representative hurled the now infamous “you lie” insult at the President, others made their lack of interest known by exhibiting rude behavior such as deliberately yawning and sending text messages ….

Various polls prior to the election indicated that between five and ten percent of Americans would never vote for an African American president. That number, of course, only includes those who actually admitted to their prejudice. How many others harbored such feelings but did not respond honestly when asked the question? And how many people oppose Obama’s plan because the President is African American? (more…)

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Tags: Bill Cosby, health care, Joe Wilson, Obama, race
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Daily Gut: The Man Who Cried

Now, you know a word has lost all meaning when Jimmy Carter finally gets around to saying it.

America’s angriest has-been JUST HAD to weigh in on the Joe Wilson affair, linking it to inherent racism – following in the wispy footsteps of every other lefty blogger.

Check it out, check it outers: (roll tape)

Carter, who I’m now convinced is really Maureen Dowd in a fright mask, seems to ignore the fact that even the White House doesn’t see the racism he sees. This is what Robert Gibbs had to say: (roll tape)

Instead of enjoying the golden years of his life, President Peanut still feels compelled to remind us why he sucked as a leader. He’s just a bitter man who always saw America as part of the problem, never the solution. So even when America elects a black man as President – the act only masks a more sinister urge. (more…)

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Tags: Carter, Gibbs, Obama, race, racism
Posted Sep 16th 2009 at 3:19 pm in Daily Gut | 227482147 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/09/16/daily-gut-the-man-who-cried/Daily+Gut%3A+The+Man+Who+Cried2009-09-16+22%3A19%3A13Greg+Gutfeld

Lonewolf Diaries: Keep Racism Alive!

Remember the day the healing took place? Remember the day a black man was elected to office by white Americans thereby proving that any established form of racism in this country was a thing of the past? Of course you do silly, and despite what they’ll tell you… so do Liberals.

I’ll be honest, I’ve never met a Racist Conservative in my life. I’ve heard that they’re out there and I’m sure that they exist, but much like a Great White Shark or a decent Joel Schumacher film… I’ve never seen one in real life.

The truth is that a vast majority of Americans are fully on board with a post-racial America. The only problem is that conservatives were the only ones to begin treating it as a reality. They continued standing for the same things that they always had (lower taxes, more power to the individual etc.), regardless of whomever was in office. The almost acted, dare I say it… Color blind. (more…)

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Tags: Obama, race, Robert Byrd, taxes
Posted Sep 15th 2009 at 5:55 pm in Lone Wolf Diaries | 225390162 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/09/15/lonewolf-diaries-keep-racism-alive/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+Keep+Racism+Alive%212009-09-16+00%3A55%3A15Steven+Crowder

Keith Olbermann Dishes Dirt on Glenn Beck

It takes a big man to admit when he’s been bested. I think it’s time for Glenn Beck to step up and apologize. Keith does such a number on him in this video, that I’m guessing Beck is down for the count. It’s sad to see, because Glenn seems like a nice enough guy.

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Tags: Glenn Beck, MSNBC, Obama, olbermann, race
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Next Up: Town Halls on Race?

What would a town hall on race look like? I do not mean the aesthetics – the color of the carpet or where panelists would sit, but the guts of it – the substance. I am pondering the question because I was recently asked to help organize and participate in a series of such discussions across the country and for the life of me I can’t understand what the purpose would be.

I am not one that believes Americans do not talk about race or that we are cowards when it comes to the issue. Indeed Americans chatter about race all the time. After football, analyzing the issue of race seems to be our national pastime. I suppose it’s to be expected as the issue of race and racial equality is woven into the fabric of our country. But we have a very particular and stubborn framework within which we discuss the issue – race equals virtue.

For instance, the President’s recent Supreme Court nomination was more about race than it was jurisprudence – Justice Sotomayor’s race, her views on race and, once seated on the court, whether members of her ethnic group will now favor one political party over the other. (more…)

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Tags: healthcare, race, racism, Sotomayor, town halls
Posted Aug 24th 2009 at 5:44 pm in Featured Story, News, Politics | 21043490 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2009/08/24/next-up-town-halls-on-race/Next+Up%3A+Town+Halls+on+Race%3F2009-08-25+00%3A44%3A47Joseph+C.+Phillips

Garofalo Still Angry With Americans Who Disagree With Her

Hate, venom and intolerance towards everyday folks speaking their minds is nothing new from Ms. Garofalo, but “tea bagging” jokes are so last April. Has she not received the White House/MSNBC Town Hall Talking Points?

In an appearance at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 21, Garofalo ripped into tea party protesters, or what some of the wizards of smart on the left have deemed “tea baggers” calling them “functionally retarded adults” and “racists.”  (more…)

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Tags: janeane garofalo, Obama, race, Tea Parties
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Daily Gut: Does MSNBC Want a Race War?

So on Tuesday, we did a segment on this black dude who showed up in Arizona where Barack Obama was speaking – with an assault weapon and a pistol strapped to his shoulder. We all pretty much agreed, that despite his actions being legal, it was still idiotic. There are many things in life that are legal, but totally nuts if done at the wrong time. For example, when I shower I’m completely naked – no law against that. However, try showing up nude at a Jonas Brothers lunch box signing – that’s another story (I blame it on the Ambien).

But this leads me to MSNBC, where on Tuesday Contessa Brewer – someone I’d like to see in a shower – filed a report about health care protesters showing up armed. In it, she used tape of that same black man carrying an assault rifle and said “there are questions about whether this has racial overtones….white people showing up with guns.”

Of course, like I said – the guy was black. But you never would have known. Because MSNBC has strategically edited the tape, so the race of the armed dude wasn’t revealed. You just assumed he was white, thanks to Contessa. (more…)

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Tags: bush, Contessa Brewer, Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Jonas Brother
Posted Aug 20th 2009 at 2:58 pm in Daily Gut, Featured Story, Politics | 208742197 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/08/20/daily-gut-does-msnbc-want-a-race-war/Daily+Gut%3A+Does+MSNBC+Want+a+Race+War%3F2009-08-20+21%3A58%3A57Greg+Gutfeld

Top 10 Things for Conservatives to Look for in the Upcoming Broadway Season

Summer is the slow time on Broadway as theatre pros recover from their Tony Award hang-overs and try to rush out to the Island for a few days of R & R before the new season begins.  This year it seems there are a few plays aiming for early fall openings hoping to ride a crest of popularity into the always-lucrative holiday season.

Just as last season brought a record number of plays as well as stellar gross sales (despite doom-sayers in the industry) this season already looks locked and loaded with a huge number of shows scheduled to open between October 1st and the first week of May (the traditional Tony nomination cut-off).  So to help the readers of Big Hollywood plan their trip to the Great White Way (we can still say that, can’t we?), I submit the top 10 things to look for from the center/right perspective:

10.  ”Superior Donuts” – A transfer from Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre (one of my personal favorite regional houses in America), the play stars “Spinal Tap”’s Michael McKean as an aging hippie who owns a donut shop in a largely black neighborhood and Jon Michael Hill (do all young Broadway actors HAVE to go by three names now?) as a 21-year-old from the neighborhood who talks his way into a job at the shop.  From the New York Times review:  ”In one of the play’s most amusing exchanges Franco challenges Arthur to name 10 black poets. Arthur names a few, then stands dumb, a look of deep concentration on his face. “It’s like watching George Bush on ‘Jeopardy!’ ” Franco cracks.” (more…)

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Tags: a steady rain, Ana Gasteyer, anita hill, barrymore, bebe neuwerth
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Review: ‘District 9’–An Alien Internment Camp?

Is it possible for a film to be both a brilliant, exciting piece of entertainment, and also a completely illogical piece of heavy-handed political propaganda? It is, if the new science-fiction oddity “District 9” is any indication.

Led by a stunning performance by Sharlto Copley, who is not only unknown to audiences outside South Africa, but who had never acted in anything but short films before, “District 9” blasts through its running time with a furious mix of action and satire. Yet its central plotline, focusing on what might happen if space aliens approached Johannesburg and were then held in a segregated district for nearly three decades, is riddled with holes and bangs viewers over the head with its allegories of racial discrimination harkening back to the evil days of that nation’s apartheid policies.

The film kicks off with a fast-paced blend of fake newscasts and faux-documentary footage shot by a camera crew that’s been assigned to cover a mass evacuation of aliens from their home in the city’s District 9. The aliens had come in a giant mother ship back in 1982, but no one has ever figured out why they arrived and left the ship to hover eternally over Johannesburg. (more…)

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Tags: "Predator", Apartheid, District 9, Internment, Neil Blomkamp
Posted Aug 14th 2009 at 6:58 am in Featured Story, Reviews | 204962180 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ckozlowski/2009/08/14/review-%e2%80%98district-9%e2%80%99-brilliant-and-stupid/Review%3A+%E2%80%98District+9%E2%80%99--An+Alien+Internment+Camp%3F++2009-08-14+13%3A58%3A48Carl+Kozlowski

Fishy

I’m doing standup in Denver. Shelley is driving me from radio to radio to TV as I do the monkey dance at each station promoting the show, selling tickets. I don’t like this part of the job. I must answer the same 10 questions about Saturday Night Live and try to explain where I’ve been for the last fifteen years. All the DJ’s want are some juicy stories about celebrities. I don’t really have that many. I’m booked at two political talk stations, a rock station, a country station, and two local TV shows.  I guess that’s my demographic! Everyone! I ask Shelley why I’m booked on the political stations. She shrugs, “Well, we didn’t really know…isn’t that what you are doing now?” The first stop I’m told is a “just right of center” show, so I feel free to share my newest shocking information that the White House is asking us to “snitch’” on our friends and family. To report anything “fishy.” This news is so abhorrent to me that I could barely sleep the night before. I immediately emailed Andrew Breitbart to see if it was true. He said yes. I searched the hotel computer web to see if the big shots, the smart people have gotten on this. They were just starting to fight back. The news was so new. Well, at least this administration is entertaining…in a bad way. I’m watching a horror movie every day.

As I share the shocking information that our Freedom of Speech is being attacked, the radio host across from me, his face, it looks like he just ate a lemon. It’s all scrunched up like…he hates me. He abruptly cuts me off and ends my interview. I’m stupefied at the reaction of people who “just can’t handle the truth.” My driver Shelley is a liberal. She doesn’t say anything. As we get in the car I try to apologize, “Well, he asked me why I was a new political activist.  I guess I should just tell jokes.” I mean I have been hired basically to sell tickets to a bar where people will spend lots of money on alcohol. And, I do need to make some money. My husband is a cop. (more…)

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Tags: "Unhappily Ever After", Andrew Breitbart, Beer Summit, Cornyn, Cornyn and Sekulow's letters
Posted Aug 10th 2009 at 12:25 pm in Featured Story, News, Politics | 203378144 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/08/10/fishy/Fishy2009-08-10+19%3A25%3A11Victoria+Jackson

On Race, ‘No He Can’t!’

This week’s Washington Times column:

Well, that was pathetic. And it wasn’t an accident. The fix was in from the beginning.

Last week’s lackluster “Beer Summit” featuring Sgt. James Crowley, professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was orchestrated to end a national discussion on race, not begin one. That’s why there were no microphones, even though each participant showed himself to be perfectly qualified, astoundingly articulate and camera-ready for an illuminating and much-needed public debate.

The problem for the White House was the more the esteemed professor talked, the more trouble he created for his friend, the president. The clever photo-op sans audio was crafted to yank the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research off the stage, lest anyone begin to question what is being taught at Harvard these days.

Conversely, the more Sgt. Crowley weighed in, and his brave black co-workers spoke out, the more obvious it became that a national discussion featuring this cast of characters may not end with the results the professor and the president wanted. (more…)

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Tags: Beer Summit, biden, bigotry, grades, Henry Louis Gates
Posted Aug 2nd 2009 at 6:25 pm in Featured Story, News, Politics | 197494137 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/08/02/on-race-no-he-can%e2%80%99t/On+Race%2C+%27No+He+Can%E2%80%99t%21%272009-08-03+01%3A25%3A23Andrew+Breitbart

Jimmy Crowley: One Good Cop

I like Sgt. James Crowley. I like him a lot.

Jimmy, from all accounts, has shown himself to be a stand-up guy. A good man, a good cop. Someone who is respected and loved by the people who matter most in his life: family, friends and the men and women who serve with him in the Cambridge Police Department, back in my home state of Massachusetts. Anyone who saw the strong statements made by Sgt. Leon Lashley and Officer Kelly King in support of their colleague can appreciate that these two people came forward.

I’m happy for Jimmy Crowley because now that the dog and pony show staged by the ringmaster-in-chief is officially over, he can get on with his life. Go back home where he belongs, with his wife and kids, being a dad. He can hold his head high for the way he conducted himself, after being called “a racist” by a good friend of the president during an unfortunate event which should never have occurred in the first place. (more…)

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Tags: Beer Summit, Cambridge Police Department, Obama, Officer Kelly King, race
Posted Aug 1st 2009 at 6:55 am in Featured Story, Politics | 195498122 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jarone/2009/08/01/jimmy-crowley-one-good-cop/Jimmy+Crowley%3A+One+Good+Cop2009-08-01+13%3A55%3A11Jimmy+Arone

The Great Beer Summit of 2009

Event in progress…we go LIVE  to Washington, D.C.

…reporting live on this historic occasion.  A crisis of epic proportions may have been averted…by an invitation from the White House to simply sit down …and have a beer.  This creatively innovative and charmingly elegant President has thrown the old book out and is writing his own.  It’s the audacity of hope and change we can believe in.  It’s a new deal and a new dawning of how business gets done today – over beers.  It has been hinted by White House sources that if today’s summit goes well, possibly other summits may be in the offing.  My source in the Administration said a possible Vodka Fest with Vladimir Putin, a Hookah Pipe Sit-Down with Ahmadinejad, and even a Sake/Mao-tai/RiceCake pow wow with Kim Jong-Il are being floated as of this broadcast with the State Department, Keith Olbermann and Oprah Winfrey.

And now, the President’s helicopter has landed.  The President’s contingent of roughly three thousand security personnel are assuming their perimeters, extension perimeters and contingency perimeters.

Sgt. Crowley and Professor Gates await the President beside the picnic table arranged for this seminal benchmark in race relations in America.

The beer is on ice – a large keg bearing the Presidential Seal. (more…)

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Tags: Budweiser, Cambridge Police, Henry Louis, Obama, race
Posted Jul 30th 2009 at 6:50 am in Featured Story, News, Political Humor, Politics | 194658119 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/07/30/the-great-beer-summit-of-2009/The+Great+Beer+Summit+of+20092009-07-30+13%3A50%3A11Gary+Graham

When a Little ‘Profiling’ Might Be a Good Thing

It must be great to be a Harvard professor with a bad attitude and be friend of the President. You might get a cool job in Washington D.C. You can also pop off to a cop and then expect the most powerful community organizer in the world to get your back at his next press conference. If you happen to be an African-American Harvard professor with a bad attitude, you can also scream racism and no one left of John McCain will doubt you’re wrong.

I also wonder what kind of lawyers they’re churning out at Harvard when their most well-know alumnus starts a statement with. “I don’t know all the facts.” and then doesn’t immediately follow that with, “So I have no comment.” Instead, he goes on for two or three paragraphs giving the facts as he was told them by his friend, the Harvard professor with a bad attitude, and then reaches a conclusion that the police acted “stupidly.” (more…)

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Tags: Harvard, Police, President Obama, Professor Gates, race
Posted Jul 29th 2009 at 1:28 pm in Politics | 192138121 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/07/29/some-questions-about-racial-profiling/When+a+Little+%27Profiling%27+Might+Be+a+Good+Thing2009-07-29+20%3A28%3A46Jeffrey+Jena