"Hey pa, the kids at school say I'm stupid. Am I?"
Posted on 04/10/2009 10:37:51 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
Film director Ron Howard is “very optimistic” about the future of America, so long as the nation makes an “adjustment,” to fulfill his hope a “more progressive” nation will mean “at a certain point I don't think we'll be so consumed with being the pre-eminent super-power and, you know, driven by sort of militarism and this need to export, you know, democracy.” Howard's reasoning, on Friday night's Real Time with Bill Maher, came in response to Maher's formulation that America has “seen better days. We're sort of in place that has made a lot of people nervous. Some people would say this country has jumped the shark.”
Howard, who is out promoting 'Angels & Demons,' a sequel to 'The Da Vinci Code,' replied: “I'm a very optimistic person and I don't want to feel like there isn't growth, but there needs to be an adjustment anyway.” He proceeded to credit the insights he gained working on his movies with Europeans: “I've actually spent a lot more time in Europe and working with crew members and actors and understanding how they live and how they think.” Howard predicted “our lives are going to be better” because “we're going to be more progressive.” Story Continues Below Ad ↓
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Let him ride with me tomorrow. I have a road trip pending, and I'm gassy. I don't want to ride with me.
/johnny
Please stop posting anything regarding Bill Maher. Thank you.
Eaxctly
Opie wants the world to have equal power. So when war does take place it is bloodier.
Bill Maher is like blood in your stool. Just ignoring him won't make him go away. I'm sorry! :)
His Nixon movie was so laced with inaccuracies, embellishments and falsities, even Carl Bernstien (yes THAT Carl Bernstien) even put out a statement that loosely said, that's not how it was.
If Carl Bernstien says your too hard on Nixon, then you've really put together a crap-fest of a movie.
“If the guy makes a good movie, who cares about his politics?”
You better start caring about all of Hollywood and the so called main stream media’s politics or else you’re not going to have a free country left under you.
Freedom and free markets are disappearing right under our feet and the so called “progressives” (socialists, communists, etc. doesn’t matter what name you call them) are stealing it with the culture war and they’re winning.
Start caring and right now. It may already be too late.
Most Hollywood types are generally insecure people, and want to be liked by everyone, in Europe, etc..
They really don’t express a political view, as such, like a core belief system. They mostly want to be with the “in” crowd; to be seen as “hip”.
Now they’re cashing in with Obama, which sucks, but at least we can see how entertainingly stupid they can be.
"Hey pa, the kids at school say I'm stupid. Am I?"
So Ron Howard yearns for the 1930s?
Starting...right....
“The wicked gnash their teeth their whole lives”
-Old Testament
Opie speaks for all lefties.
They hate America’s power and are trying to turn us into USSA of EU-rope.
I finally agree with you. I used to be able to differentiate politics with the entertainer. No more. I’m making a list. My dollars will not go to someone who craps on the land that allows them to do what they do. First on my list is Will Farrell.
Will Farrell is waging an unrelenting campaign to replace Sean Penn as the country's Douche bag-in-Chief. Penn's not going to go down without a fight, but I think Farrell just may pull it out.
I was reading the LAT (unfortunately, it was at a McDonald’s) and one of the producers of the movie (name escapes me) even bragged during the interview that they wanted to ridicule Nixon.
No bias, eh?
Brian Grazer?
Me.
I agree. I cannot even look at his face without wanting to throw up.
I suspect all of Hollywoods works are lost in torrents of bits these days anyway.
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