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Splashy Sarah Palin Movie Premiere Shuts Out Hollywood; Turns Away Journalists
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | June 27, 2011 | Paul Bond

Posted on 06/27/2011 10:34:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The director admits he didn't invite his "right-wing" friends such as Jon Voight and Dennis Miller, while the media scrambles for seats.

PELLA, IOWA -- Reporters from around the country that have descended upon tiny Pella, Iowa for the premiere of the Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated on Tuesday night were in for a rude awakening: So scarce are the tickets that there’s no room in the theater for journalists.

The town, in fact, has been filling up rapidly since Palin confirmed she’d attend the premiere with her husband, Todd. Police notified residents that the streets around the venue, the 111-year-old Pella Opera House, would be shut down beginning 13 hours prior to show time.

On Monday, organizers were still divvying up tickets to the massively oversubscribed event, and reporters – some who travelled more than 1,000 miles -- were given the word that they didn’t make the cut.

Organizers were scrambling Monday, though, trying to arrange a separate screening for journalists, but there were no guarantees given.

The Undefeated, from writer-director Steve Bannon, is one of two documentaries about the controversial former vice presidential candidate. The other – a less flattering look at Palin -- is an untitled film from Nick Broomfield that is seeking a distributor.

Bannon has opted for a low-key premiere – “the hard, worn bricks of the Pella Opera House is all the red carpet I need,” he said Monday – though road closures and media trucks have dictated otherwise. Bannon, a U.S. Navy veteran, also enlisted some retired Navy SEALs for security detail.

Most of the 340 tickets went to Iowans and some of the commentators featured in the film, like Tammy Bruce and Sonnie Johnson. The most controversial cast member – not including Palin herself – is Andrew Breitbart, who is expected to be a last-minute arrival on Tuesday.

“I didn’t invite all my right-wing Hollywood friends,” Bannon said. “Jon Voight, Dennis Miller, I’ll have a screening for those guys later. I’d actually like them to buy a ticket, but they’re so tight… And you can quote me on that,” he joked.”

Pella is a religiously and politically conservative town of 10,000 people that boasts three dozen churches. With those sensibilities in mind, and because the Palins will be in the audience, Bannon and company will screen the version of the film with the less offensive opening.

The Undefeated begins with celebrities – David Letterman, Matt Damon, Howard Stern, Madonna, Louis C.K. and others – thoroughly trashing Palin, though Tuesday’s audience will be treated to bleeps instead of the more hardcore profanity used by some of the entertainers. Either way, it’s an intense opening made all the more menacing by the choice of music and the inclusion of a Bible verse.

The premiere includes a barbecue for 1,000 guests – no media – where Palin intends on mingling, though it wasn’t determined yet whether she’d make any public remarks.


TOPICS: Local News; Music/Entertainment; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: documentary; freepressforpalin; hollywood; iowa; moviereview; msm; palin; sarahpalin; theundefeated
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To: freedumb2003

Palin/Cain for 8, Cain or Bachmann or West/TBD for 8 more. We need about 24 years solid to really clean up this mess at its core.


121 posted on 06/28/2011 4:34:32 AM PDT by OriginalChristian (The end of America, as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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To: DryFly

Why do you hate her? I can understand that you do not support her for president - but hate?


122 posted on 06/28/2011 4:38:50 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (FR haters of Sarah Palin are wearing me out)
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To: DollyCali

BTTT!


123 posted on 06/28/2011 4:39:12 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: nopardons

I think freedumb2003 and freedomwarrior998 are the same they argue the same.


124 posted on 06/28/2011 4:39:16 AM PDT by Hotmetal
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To: freedumb2003

I’m not so sure...

The last President we elected used all the media hype and still is the media ‘darling,’ even though a majority of mainstream voters have already decided they made a mistake.

I think it is an interesting tact, if she is planning to run for President, that she is employing the act of the constituent palm press. Doing so without the media.

Can someone win the Presidency without the media?

In the age of the internet...I suspect they can. All my life the media has tortured and slander republican candidates...and yet, we still had Reagan, we still elected Bush...twice. All the while the MSM hyping every fault and flaw along the way.

Obama used the ‘new media’ to generate the hype-vote and the old media to control his mass message.

Palin has been through the MSM fires of hell, misquoted, taken out of context, and ridiculed. Some would say any press is good press, but is it? Is she playing a childish game of revenge or is she setting a new standard in presidential campaigns by meeting, We the People, and not “we the press?”


125 posted on 06/28/2011 4:39:57 AM PDT by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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To: freedumb2003



126 posted on 06/28/2011 4:46:38 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (BUY AMERICAN. The job you save will be your son's, or your daughter's)
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To: freedumb2003

Picture me,rolling my eyes at you!


127 posted on 06/28/2011 5:42:57 AM PDT by Friendofgeorge (Sarah Palin 2012 OR BUST)
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To: freedumb2003
This latest stunt further convinces me that Gov. Palin is in it to mess with the MSM and get some (probably well-deserved) revenge. But it seems a bit petty and childish.

Maybe we just need a hero who's willing to slap these b@tches in the face now and then.

If she runs, she runs. I will support her. If she wants to piss in the media's coffee, I can enjoy that, too.

Petty and childish? Consider what we really need to do to purge this nation of the disease of socialism.

These are "the happy times".

128 posted on 06/28/2011 5:50:31 AM PDT by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Join us at the picnic. You can eat your fill of all the food you bring yourself." -- Meredith Wilson, "Hawkeye Iowa" from The Music Man.

Right, 2DV?

129 posted on 06/28/2011 6:01:54 AM PDT by SAJ (Zerobama -- a phony and a prick, therefore a dildo)
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To: freedumb2003
Always good to see my arguments are met on a logical basis.

You had an argument? You could have fooled me.........more like a snark, and a bad one too.......

130 posted on 06/28/2011 6:09:40 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not previewing a film for critics is always a bad idea. That means it will open with no reviews in the papers that day and that’s an industry sign that the filmmakers don’t think much of their work.


131 posted on 06/28/2011 6:31:31 AM PDT by Borges
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To: freedumb2003

It is obvious you have never been to a Palin event. Unless it is handled like this, there is no way she can have an opportunity to mingle with the people who have come to see her.


132 posted on 06/28/2011 6:53:14 AM PDT by GlockLady
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To: grey_whiskers

>>If she *does* run in the current Presidential cycle, will you then promise to favor us with your real-life name and then drop off of FR into well-deserved obloquy?<<

If she doesn’t, will you do the same?

In the meantime, I see the usual gang has shown up so go ahead and strut, crow and give each other the usual self-congratulatory back-slaps.

I should have known better, but for some reason I continue to have (ever dashed) hope.


133 posted on 06/28/2011 7:32:01 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: freedumb2003
But it seems a bit petty and childish. And I don’t think she will run. But if she does, this hurts her more than helps her.


134 posted on 06/28/2011 7:51:04 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." Richard Feynman father of Quantum Physics)
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To: Norm Lenhart
I will be using this on many web sites.

Thank you

135 posted on 06/28/2011 8:00:22 AM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Islam is an instrument of enslavement)
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To: DryFly

I don’t hate Palin. Why should I? I do hate the stupidity of some of her supporters, though.


136 posted on 06/28/2011 9:01:24 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: freedumb2003

Kneel before Saint Sarah, you swine! ;)


137 posted on 06/28/2011 9:02:39 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Norm Lenhart

LOLOLOLOL....

Good job Norm!


138 posted on 06/28/2011 9:22:55 AM PDT by Forty-Niner (Palin/West 2012)
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To: freedumb2003
I provide actual argumentation — reasoned and discussed.

But you see that is the problem...its not "reasoned arguments", especially with the facts and realities which even the media, who consistently condemns Palin, attests to...those facts and realities which you cannot seem to grasp.

Anyone reading this thread, and the dialogue among, can determine there is indeed dialogue and comments presented to you and with you. That too is an established fact which appears to simply go over your head...even with the evidence of this thread and others like it.

Therefore, why would you expect further "reasoned" dialogue, which doesn't take into account your avoiding, dodging and ommittimg the facts and realities that you're presented with??.... Furthermore that some might might easily see you as an embittered "troll" isn't difficult to understand.

139 posted on 06/28/2011 9:44:25 AM PDT by caww
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The town, in fact, has been filling up rapidly since Palin confirmed she’d attend the premiere with her husband, Todd.

Why? She's irrelevant.

140 posted on 06/28/2011 9:50:23 AM PDT by hattend (Let's all meet Sarah at her last bus stop -- 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Jan 2013)
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