Burnt Offerings: Teaching Our Children — Pride in Going Red, White and Blue

On March 26, I was watching the Kids’ Choice Awards with my 8-year-old twins on Viacom’s Nickelodeon, which for 30 years has been the No. 1 entertainment brand for kids. It was dedicated to the Big Green Help environmental campaign and “going green” for Earth Day awareness. Leonardo DiCaprio was honored for his green work. Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson was the host, and my fellow Hollywood stars and musicians came out in full force.

An impressive commitment was shown to keeping the message of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” as a battle cry for our youths’ participation in protecting Mother Earth from global warming and pollution. My children were enthusiastic. I was confused. Something bothered me, and I could not put my finger on why – until Memorial Day weekend.

It started on Saturday morning, when I took my 8-year-old son, Nicholas, who is a Cub Scout, to the Los Angeles National Cemetery. About 2,700 Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, from Cub to Eagle, convened to place flags on more than 84,000 gravesites of America’s finest. It was a moving, profound experience.

One would expect a lot of running and playing among these youngsters as they performed their task. But, no. At each site, they stood at attention, recited the name of the service member and then saluted. Within two hours, 84,000 flags proudly waved in the gentle breeze. (more…)

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Posted May 31st 2009 at 9:10 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 14829811 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/rdavi/2009/05/31/burnt-offerings-teaching-our-children-pride-in-going-red-white-and-blue/Burnt+Offerings%3A+Teaching+Our+Children+--+Pride+in+Going+Red%2C+White+and+Blue2009-05-31+16%3A10%3A11Robert+Davi

Half of New Movies This Weekend Lecture us to Recycle

Look, if I wanna recycle (and sorry, right now, I just threw out a dirty plastic cup, without washing it out and reusing it–horrors!), I’ll recycle.  I don’t need hypocritical, non-recycling gazillionaire starlets to tell me to do so.  Including when I’m trying to watch a movie.

But Hollywood, while stupid, ain’t that stupid.  So, instead of telling me to recycle, they’re doing it through t-shirts. . . . in two out of four national movie releases this weekend, the star wears her political views not on her sleeve, but on her chest.  In “He’s Just Not That Into You“–a funny movie that turned into a sappy, non-credible chick flick–Ginnifer Goodwin (whose parents got the “Jennifer Memo,” but couldn’t spell)  wears a recycle symbol t-shirt while she’s lying on her bed.  In “Push,” the ever-dull Dakota Fanning wears the same t-shirt.  Same recycle symbol.  You can read my full reviews of both of these movies–I was Just Not That Into for than one of them–and the far superior “Coraline” here. (more…)

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Posted Feb 6th 2009 at 6:49 pm in Entertainment, Politics | 4397443 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dschlussel/2009/02/06/half-of-new-movies-this-weekend-lecture-us-to-recycle/Half+of+New+Movies+This+Weekend+Lecture+us+to+Recycle2009-02-07+02%3A49%3A50Debbie+Schlussel