Posted on 08/17/2006 11:43:01 AM PDT by vimto
Nicole Kidman and 83 Hollywood heavyweights are using the power of the press to speak out against terrorism.
She has joined 84 other high-profile Hollywood stars, directors, studio bosses and media moguls, including News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch, has taken out a powerfully-worded full page advertisement in today's Los Angeles Times newspaper.
It specifically targets "terrorist organisations" such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine.
"We the undersigned are pained and devastated by the civilian casualties in Israel and Lebanon caused by terrorist actions initiated by terrorist organisations such as Hizbollah and Hamas," the ad reads.
"If we do not succeed in stopping terrorism around the world, chaos will rule and innocent people will continue to die.
"We need to support democratic societies and stop terrorism at all costs."
A who's who of Hollywood heavyweights joined Kidman and Murdoch on the ad.
The actors listed included: Michael Douglas, Dennis Hopper, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Danny De Vito, Don Johnson, James Woods, Kelly Preston, Patricia Heaton and William Hurt.
Directors Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael Mann, Dick Donner and Sam Raimi also signed their names.
Other Hollywood powerplayers supporting the ad included Sumner Redstone, the chairman and majority owner of Paramount Pictures, and billionaire mogul, Haim Saban.
I had frosted strawberry Poptarts for breakfast this morning and Patricia Heaton had breakfast this morning, also.
Making Hollywood's opinions to be more "creditworthy" than anyone else's is a peculiar way of assigning such. Pretending to be someone else and getting paid for it is not a basis to assign "credit" or added weight to an actor's opinion on anything. Good acting doesn't necessarily entitle them to such acclaim. Do you have a rational basis for this "credit" you wish to assign or is it "star power." I grew up on Los Angeles. Perhaps you did too. You know that actors are not exactly ones whose opinions are entitled to any higher credit than anyone else's. Star power ain't brain power.
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Making Hollywood's opinions to be more "creditworthy" than anyone else's is a peculiar way of assigning such. Pretending to be someone else and getting paid for it is not a basis to assign "credit" or added weight to an actor's opinion on anything. Good acting doesn't necessarily entitle them to such acclaim. Do you have a rational basis for this "credit" you wish to assign or is it "star power."
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They get heard more easily that we do as we type away in the back corners of the Internet.
This can only be good. And their message is on target!
Likely true (but how do you know?). Now, if Patricia Heaton had a breakfast of Poptarts with you at your place, that would be significant.
Patricia Heaton isn't simply the most vocal pro-life person in Hollywood, she's one of the most vocal pro-life people in America. She said on Jay Leno one evening that she voted Republican because Republicans were a pro-life party. That's not just being "conservative," that's being overtly conservative in behind enemy lines.
And I take your point as to the way the world is. My cynicism as to the Hollywood types' motives stems from experience. Every Christmas in Los Angeles you can count on TV crews covering a celebrity "donating" their time at a homeless shelter or soup kitchen. But ask those who work helping the poor day in and day out at such locations. Many -- in fact most -- of the celebs are gone once the cameras leave. Everything done in Hollywood is done with an eye to publicity, the best being the free type. "Look at me, I care." Gets facetime. And the camera crews and celebs get in the way of the real work and the real good.
As for being Welsh, please make more Katherine Zeta-Joneses. I don't care about what her politics look like.
Sheesh. Free Republic is a "back corner"? You position is both illogical and inaccurate. The vast majority of voters do not say to themselves "Nicole Kidman thinks/votes thus and so, so I will too." Let's have more faith in democracy and our fellow voters.
Hollywood is historically leftist and votes Democrat overwhelmingly. Julia Roberts' comment about the word "republican" appearing between "reptile" and "repugnant" in the dictionary is the level of political sophistication of most Hollywood types. Do you really want to applaud them and accord their opinions more highly?
I don't know your age but were a fan of The Alarm in your youth?
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"They get heard more easily that we do as we type away in the back corners of the Internet. This can only be good. And their message is on target!"
Sheesh. Free Republic is a "back corner"? You position is both illogical and inaccurate. The vast majority of voters do not say to themselves "Nicole Kidman thinks/votes thus and so, so I will too."
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Sorry fella, but indeed they have a voice the resonates accross America in ways we can not. They aren't the whole, but definitely a part of the sum of the whole. i.e., everything helps!
And remember, for the terrorists, 90% of the war is a propaganda war thru the media. Hollywood does hold a big slice of that media!
Resonates accross (sic) America in ways we can not? Apparently Hollywood struck the wrong cord the last several elections. There is a difference between fluff and facts. Something else is resonating across America, thankfully.
And remember, for the terrorists, 90% of the war is a propaganda war thru the media. Hollywood does hold a big slice of that media!
I think the members of the American electorate can figure out who the bad guys are all by ourselves. You skirt the main point: People don't vote a certain way because some starlet thinks they should do so.
Try telling the dead from 9/11, Iraq, and Afghanistan that 90% of the war is propaganda war. Don't value H-wood hype over real actions and real sacrifice and real voters. That is a bad and illogical precedent.
May these celebrities buy some serious hardware, if you know what I mean, and back up their rhetoric by taking some of the terrorists out for us. );-)
Nice to know there are still fans out there.
One of their live CDs was from the Wang Center in Boston. If you listen really close, you can hear me yelling.
VH1 did a reunion show with all the original members, it was awesome.
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