Posted on 01/21/2005 5:19:46 PM PST by ambrose
Dennis Hopper should be hopping mad, some Hollywood actors said this week.
Hopper, who organized The Creative Coalition's Ball after the Ball Thursday night as part of the activities surrounding President Bush's inauguration, apparently got a surprise phone call from the Presidential Inaugural Committee Wednesday night - telling him not to come to his own party.
"I feel terrible that the White House inaugural committee that invited Dennis decided to disinvite him," "Sopranos" actor Joe Pantoliano told reporters at the event, where the entertainment - aside from mingling with some of Tinseltown's stars - was singer Macy Gray.
Hopper reportedly was not given an explanation for the insult. A call to the PIC had not been returned by press time.
Thursday's ball at the Reagan Building in Washington featured names such as Pantoliano - the group's co-director - along with actor and director Tony Goldwyn, Mario Van Peebles, Joe Piscopo, Matthew Modine and other actors. Various politicos like Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., also attended.
But many were sorry about the absence of Hopper, who was the organizer and chair of the event and who personally wrote letters to and called the evening's headliners to invite them.
"I was very disappointed. I was told he was all of a sudden disinvited by the Inaugural Committee ... but he's with us in spirit," Goldwyn, who played the dark character Carl Bruner in the 1990 smash-hit "Ghost," and more recently co-starred in "The Last Samurai," told reporters on the red carpet Thursday.
Hopper, a Hollywood icon and long-time actor, director and producer who has starred in films such as "Speed," "Easy Rider" and "Apocalypse Now," is a hard-core supporter of Bush, although his wife did partake in fund-raising activities for Sen. John Kerry, Bush's Democratic challenger in the 2004 presidential election.
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I'm guessing Farah and the so-called "pro-family" boys struck again. This is stupid beyond comprehension. Farah and Dobson had better be sent a message that they are going to have to share the party with the rest of us, they don't own it. Idiots.
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"WTH?"
It's BS blaming religiousity. My bet is detox, the religion angle a cover story for Hollywood folk susceptible to that kind of excuse.
There is clearly much more to this story. Curious minds want to know...
Baby wants to Fu...
May I say here that I saw the original "Easy Rider" at the movies when it was considered cool and counter-culture. Also enjoyed him in "Blue Velvet", which was a trip of a film.
Something is wrong here. If Macy Gray was the entertainer, then this was not a Republican friendly event.
Probably the same reason that Kid Rock was disinvited from the sort-of-MTV Rock The Republicans party the night before.
He is from Dodge City, Kansas. I used to live there but never saw him.
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Ah, nothing like a little "Christian Charity" from the Taliban wing of the conservative movement. <<
I didn't read anything in the article about that. What happened? Source?
Yes there is. To paraphrase Groucho Marx: "I'm suspicious of any group that would have Joe Piscopo as a member."
I need more persuasion on this. I've listened to Hopper in the past...and he was always one of the most liberal guys in Hollywood. Unless he's had a recent conversion, I find this hard to believe.
>>I'm guessing Farah and the so-called "pro-family" boys struck again. This is stupid beyond comprehension. Farah and Dobson had better be sent a message that they are going to have to share the party with the rest of us, they don't own it. Idiots.<<
I missed that. Where did you get this info?
...and a long ago brain dead druggie whose only claim to fame was Easy Rider. There is a reason why he has resurfaced after many years of anonymity and thats because the hollyweirds felt sorry for the bum. Claiming to be a Republican at this point in his questionable career will likely be the end of him........
No great loss......
How dare you insult horse rumps.
I don't understand this and I want to know the whole story. If it's true that he was disinvited I will be furious and I believe action must be taken before the lunatic fringe of our party blows everything for this President. At face value, this is outrageous.
>>Something is wrong here. If Macy Gray was the entertainer, then this was not a Republican friendly event.<<
I read the rest of the article. While Dennis Hopper IS a Bush supporter, many members of the organization are not.
They are a group dedicated to getting gov't interested in their causes.
What are you talking about? Dennis Hopper is an acting icon who has made so many wonderful movies. It's people like you that give us a bad name. I want to remind everyone that our President was not a choir boy in his youth either. PEOPLE CHANGE. My Gosh.
It was from a gossip colum. That's not going to stop the Christian bashers.
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