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Showbiz people giving money to Prez.
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Posted on 12/07/2003 12:02:40 AM PST by L.A.Justice

I read the list of Hollywood/entertainment figures who contributed to Prez Bush's re-election. (LA TIMES 11/16/03)

$2000:

1. Chuck Norris: One of my favorite actors...I don't think he will get an Oscar any time soon...But, so what? I remember an episode of WALKER TEXAS RANGER...Walker(Norris) tells others that he is going to a meeting with Gov. Bush.

2. Dino De Laurentiis: Produced many films...Like RED DRAGON, HANNIBAL, U-571, and CONAN THE BARBARIAN.

3. Terry Semel: Yahoo CEO

4. Richard Zanuck: Produced many films...Like ROAD TO PERDITION, RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, and DRIVING MISS DAISY.

5. Lili Zanuck: A producer-director...She directed RUSH, a film starring Jennifer Jason Leigh.

6. Amy Grant: I watched an ABC special about her...Her decision to divorce her first husband was really a painful one.

7. Jami Gertz: She and Tom Cruise made their acting debuts in ENDLESS LOVE (1981). She was in TWISTER (1996), playing the girlfriend of Helen Hunt character's husband. She was in SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984).

8. Jeff Shaara: Worked on the screenplay for GODS AND GENERALS.

$1000:

1. Ben Stein


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; campaignfinace; donors; electionpresident; georgew; gwb2004; hollywoodright

1 posted on 12/07/2003 12:02:41 AM PST by L.A.Justice
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To: L.A.Justice
1. Ben Stein

Sooooooooooooo... what you're saying here, essentially, is: Dubya's been successful in his attempt to Win Ben Stein's Money...? :)

2 posted on 12/07/2003 12:14:02 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("The Clintons have damaged our country. They have done it together, in unison." -- Peggy Noonan)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Sooooooooooooo... what you're saying here, essentially, is: Dubya's been successful in his attempt to Win Ben Stein's Money...? :)

Thanks, saw that one coming a mile away!



3 posted on 12/07/2003 12:41:58 AM PST by LayoutGuru2 (Call me paranoid but finding '/*' inside this comment makes me suspicious)
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To: LayoutGuru2

:)

4 posted on 12/07/2003 12:45:22 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("The Clintons have damaged our country. They have done it together, in unison." -- Peggy Noonan)
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To: L.A.Justice
Nice to see Semel on the list. Yahoo was on the verge of serious financial problems when he restored their financial health. He's a hero here in Silicon Valley.
5 posted on 12/07/2003 1:29:45 AM PST by jagrmeister (I'm not a conservative. I don't seek to conserve, I seek to reform.)
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To: L.A.Justice
Amy Grant: I watched an ABC special about her..

Wasn't she the contemporary "Christian" artist who was pocketing large sums and flapping her gums about the Lord word while screwing around on her husband?

Her decision to divorce her first husband was really a painful one.

Well you know what they say..."hurts" so good.

6 posted on 12/07/2003 1:30:47 AM PST by zarf (..where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment?)
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http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/index.html

When it's finally available, check out the CNN transcript of Larry King's interview with Amy Grant and Vince Gill, that aired last night. Both of them emphatically deny adultry, and without Clinton-like weasel words.

I watched the King interview and was laughing out loud that Larry King, (like Don Imus), simply can't fathom two committed Christians, married to other people, experiencing a great attraction to each other, who don't "do it".

(Not only that. Grant said, and Gill confirmed, they never even discussed ending their marriages so that they could marry each other.)

7 posted on 12/07/2003 3:41:08 AM PST by YaYa123 (@Clinton Lied, But I Don't Think These People Did.com)
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To: L.A.Justice
Jami Gertz bump


8 posted on 12/07/2003 3:56:21 AM PST by Freebird Forever
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To: L.A.Justice
I didn't know until I watched a Larry King rerun last night that Amy was just a senior in high school when she became the first platinum-album selling Christian music artist-- 1982's Age to Age.

I don't think that she cheated on Gray Chapman, but I don't really understand the whole metamorphosis of her relationship with him and then Vince Gill. I know that Johnny Cash had the same thing happen to him-- he was married when he met June and felt like maybe he was meant to be married til death he doth depart with June and not his then-current wife-- but I can't fully wrap my mind around the concept of fate and destiny and such. But, Johnny and June apparently were meant for one another, so who knows?
9 posted on 12/07/2003 6:59:31 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative ("He's got to win in '04. No one else can prosecute this war like he can."- Cpt. J. Morrison, Baghdad)
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To: YaYa123
You and me both watched that. It was interesting. I believe them, too.
10 posted on 12/07/2003 7:00:45 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative ("He's got to win in '04. No one else can prosecute this war like he can."- Cpt. J. Morrison, Baghdad)
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To: L.A.Justice

It's a parody album cover for a real band.

11 posted on 12/07/2003 7:03:56 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative ("He's got to win in '04. No one else can prosecute this war like he can."- Cpt. J. Morrison, Baghdad)
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To: zarf
Ok - couple of things about Amy Grant.

I used to be a huge fan, but the whole divorce thing kinda turned me off to her music. In my book, in Christian music the message should match the messenger. And then in 2000, while she did not campaign with Al Gore, she was seen with him and his family at different events, and I recall seeing something about them being "friends" for a long time - since they are all from Tennessee.

So - her affiliation with Gore really turned me off to her, and I am very surprised that she donated to Bush. Good for her. Maybe the whole Gore thing was overplayed intentionally by Gore to increase his appeal to Christians.
12 posted on 12/07/2003 7:10:19 AM PST by pittsburgh gop guy (now serving eastern Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley.......)
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To: L.A.Justice
By the way, Jami Gertz was in UNDERCOVER CHRISTMAS on CBS Sunday Night Movie. I think she would also be in STILL STANDING on Monday night.
13 posted on 12/07/2003 11:45:51 PM PST by L.A.Justice
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