Posted on 11/06/2004 1:25:09 PM PST by alydar
WASHINGTON: Call it Follywood for now.
Except for occasional whimpering, America's entertainment industry has gone very quiet on the political front. Backing John Kerry at the electoral box office, showbiz has been ambushed so badly that piracy is the last thing on its mind now. More like suicide.
"Ok, it sucks. Really sucks," moaned Michael Moore, in his first sigh since the elections, when his initial reaction was to put up a collage of all US soldiers who died in Iraq as a composite of Bush's face on his website www.michaelmoore.com .
In a lament titled "17 reasons not to slit your wrists," Moore looked at the bright side of things: Bush could not run for President again under law; Bush's victory was the narrowest win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
The rest was mostly levity, including: The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), "proving once again that your parents are always wrong and you should never listen to them"; and, Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States, and the whole West Coast! Plus Hawaii.
We've got most of the fresh water, all of Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can dehydrate them or bury them in lava. And no more show tunes!" comforted Moore.
For now though, it's the hated Bush who is calling the shots, playing the tune.
It wasn't meant to be this way. Showbiz socked it into Bush with gale force. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Sharon Stone and Meg Ryan, Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond, Samuel Jackson and Robert de Niro, Ricky Martin and Justin Timberlake, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, Stevie Wonder and Eminem, all campaigned for Kerry.
Some of them were so exercised with Bush that they lost weight just calling him names. Jennifer Aniston of "Friends" called him "a [expletive] idiot," singer John Mellencamp described him as "a cheap thug," and Cher thought he was "stupid and lazy." Leonardo de Caprio was so agitated by Bush policies that at 29, he called it the "most important election of my lifetime."
But in the end, the Kerry campaign sank like the Titanic – suddenly and quickly – after striking an iceberg called Middle America, which lies between the west coast glitterati and the east coast illuminati. It is, as actor Ron Silver (one of the few Hollywood actors who backed Bush) called it, the land that people who fly from New York to California "look down upon."
It wasn't just showbiz that was suckered. George Soros of big biz spend $17 million of his own money in a campaign to defeat Bush. The literati joined force with a host of famous writers backing Kerry, and the Economist and the New Yorker breaking from tradition endorsing him. The literary crowd is now "crying into its Evian," sneered a conservative paper.
In his pre-election appeals, Moore urged young slackers who have never voted to "Sleep till noon, drink beer, vote Kerry." Although a majority of the youth voted Kerry (54-44), it seems not enough of them woke up in time.
In the end, Hollywood's railing and ranting ended up rallying the faithful church-going Republican backers instead of the beer-swilling slackers.
Et tu?
Not bad, for someone named Chitandraghat.
Kid language from the fatted-one.
Why does he always look like he need de-loused, showered, and shaved?
Because he does.
George Soros of big biz spend $17 million of his own money in a campaign to defeat Bush.Privately, when Bush heard that Soros was going to spend millions to defeat him, Bush probably said "bring it on".
BTTT
But the Red States have all the guns!
[Jennifer Aniston of "Friends" called him "a [expletive] idiot,"]
Isn't she the one with the perpetual air leak coming from her head?
[...and Cher thought he was "stupid and lazy."]
BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAAHAHAHAAA!
The beer drinkers voted Bush, the DRUG slackers voted Kerry.
Kerry's obeisance to Christian-hating Hollywarped weirdos demonstrated that he would strengthen Follywood's destructive chokehold on American culture. Kerry idiotically called foul-mouthed Whoppi Goldberg the "soul of America" and stupidly aligned himself with religious-hating Hollywarped's version of the Ten Commandments.
THE HOLLYWOOD CREED
Christians are evil.
Women are to be valued only for their cleavage.
The traditional family is archaic, constricting, with no redeeming value.
Parents that try to guide their children's choices are restrictive. Kids need to be "free".
Extreme movie violence and explicit sex for the thrill of it is good because it is profitable.
Hollywood firmly believes that 24/7 of the sexually salacious and violent TV, movies and music we produce are not harming kids and the culture.
OTOH, we also believe----with the religious fervor of Tammy Faye Baker---- that a single 15-sec commercial will compel tens of millions of Americans into thousands of stores to buy billions of dollars worth of soap, soup, breakfast cereal and cars.
Badda Bing! </rimshot!>
Finally I agree with Michael Moore about something.
BTTT
Hollywood once turned out GREAT show tunes, especially through the 50's. Since then, very few and far between. Sigh.
Times of India columnist pretending like he understands Americans again. :rolleyes:
Can anyone think of a reason why anything from the Times of India should be taken seriously?
"Et tu?"
...AND Ricky's husband ????
"Follywood"--appropriate name!
Because he always needs to be de-loused, showered, and shaved. Looks are not deceiving.
Friggen him-bo.
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