I listened to some of Tammy Bruce's show last night. She noted that there are a number of folks in Hollyweird (she mentioned Morgan Brittany of "Dallas" fame) who keep their coservative views on the down low lest they find themselves blackballed.
Ron Silver, on the other hand, makes no bones about his "conservative Dem" beliefs. Bet that makes for some fun conversations on the set of "West Wing".
There's already a review of this special online:
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2004091217040002154089&dt=20040912170400&w=RTR&coview=
excerpt:
"Is there such an animal in ferociously Democratic Hollywood? Are there any dodo birds left around? Unicorns? AMC thinks there are some of those Republican animals around (hidden in closets?), and so does documentarian Jesse Moss, who did Democratic activism and now has been commissioned to find these elusive beasts.
"Moss works low budget and hangs around these scenes for his mission, but to little good effect, though he has some chats with such admitted Republicans as Drew Carey (who prefers "libertarian," which is "a conservative who still gets high"), John Milius, Pat Sajak, Patricia Heaton, Vincent Gallo, Ivan Reitman, Lionel Chetwynd and Ben Stein."
Ron Silver is not a "conservative Dem." Instead he is a liberal dem who is a hawk when it comes to islamic jihadists.