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Free speech—or un-American? Bay State town goes to war with H’wood
Boston Herald ^ | February 18, 2005 | Jessica Fargen

Posted on 02/18/2005 7:35:14 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

A controversial play with an Oscar-winning actress portraying Laura Bush reading to dead Iraqi children will go on despite a local official blasting the show as ``anti-American propaganda.'' Caryn Heilman, co-founder of the Topia Arts Center in Adams, which is putting on the show, welcomed the discourse on the ``procovative'' play. Heilman defended the play. ``This is one type of art that is an important part of the American fabric. It's very good that dialogue is beginning,'' she said.

In the play, the first lady reads to dead Iraqi children and ``goes through complex emotions,'' about the war, Heilman said.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: arts; hollywood; iraqis; laurabush; liberals; play; unamerican
Twisted mentality of the pinkos arises again.
1 posted on 02/18/2005 7:35:17 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

sick !


2 posted on 02/18/2005 7:39:29 AM PST by JamesA ( The more you try to change my convictions the more resolved I am to keep them.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Free Speech.


3 posted on 02/18/2005 7:40:21 AM PST by conserv13
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To: conserv13

Another liberal hatchet job hiding behind "art".


4 posted on 02/18/2005 7:44:44 AM PST by NetValue (Be a democrat; oppose, lie, subvert, obstruct , and sabotage progress and ideals in America.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
This is why the "arts" in this country are becoming increasingly seen as the enemy.

This is cultural terrorism on your tax dollars.

We desperately need a renaissance of the arts.

But these trendy leftists know they can get money for insulting ordinary Americans.
5 posted on 02/18/2005 7:45:38 AM PST by squarebarb
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To: squarebarb

These trendy leftists actually lack artistic skill, too.


6 posted on 02/18/2005 7:46:50 AM PST by NetValue (Be a democrat; oppose, lie, subvert, obstruct , and sabotage progress and ideals in America.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
The wretched have no compassion.
7 posted on 02/18/2005 7:48:54 AM PST by lillybet
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To: squarebarb
Little black-and-white thing; Leftist artists. Big brown thing: The American taxpayer. Okay, that's enough Art for today. Back to the coffee.
8 posted on 02/18/2005 7:49:23 AM PST by squarebarb
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To: squarebarb

She's reading to the dead Iraqi children that we found in mass graves right?


9 posted on 02/18/2005 7:57:30 AM PST by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
I wonder if someone at this very moment is writing a similarly "controversial" play about about liberal Hollywood writers, producers, actors, liberal university professors, and members of the ACLU...AND rats.

Briefly, the story would have the contingent of both the aforementioned human and rat population airlifted to some small, remote, irrelevant Pacific Island...to be used as a giant laboratory if you will on the efficacy of the AC-130 and survival between human and rat.

Hmmm, would this be considered "art" as well?

10 posted on 02/18/2005 8:00:17 AM PST by F16Fighter
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To: massgopguy

No one should attend this type of trash.


11 posted on 02/18/2005 8:03:00 AM PST by ChadsDad (If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
You know guys,

I've heard of this play. Why am I not surprised it's being performed in Beantown? Seriously, I don't know how you do it -- continuing to live up there amid the leftist idiots.

I mean, the weather is bad enough, and that's what really made me leave (well, that and the abysmal lack of parking). But the absolute dim-wittery (I just made a new word up, like it?) of the left was a big repellant too. I do miss Howie Carr, though. All Hail The Captain!

I was one of THREE conservatives living in Jamaica Plain and it was lonely.

Hats off to ya, you're made of tougher stuff than I -- but it's about 80 degrees down here in Florida right now. No state tax and ample parking. You guys ARE welcome.

12 posted on 02/18/2005 8:06:37 AM PST by RepoGirl (Rottweilers are republican; all cats vote nader.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Isn't it amazing how's its always an issue of "free speech" when its a liberal speaking?

but don't you DARE mention God, for Christ's sake! THAT would be offensive!


13 posted on 02/18/2005 8:06:45 AM PST by AnnAdoringFan
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Caryn Heilman, co-founder of the Topia Arts Center in Adams, which is putting on the show, welcomed the discourse on the ``procovative'' play.

Sorry, I had to post again. Um... is PROCOVATIVE a... um... real word?

14 posted on 02/18/2005 8:09:42 AM PST by RepoGirl (Rottweilers are republican; all cats vote nader.)
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To: RepoGirl

The show isn't going on in Beantown, it's going on in a tiny far-west town up in the northern Berkshires. Adams might as well be South Bennington. Pretty area, though.


15 posted on 02/18/2005 8:19:29 AM PST by Little Pig (Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
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To: RepoGirl

In this case, the play is taking place in a western Mass. locale very far from Boston.

I went to college in Florida and was in Fort Lauderdale this past December. :-)

Howie Carr is fabulous. Luckily, we have other voices of reason on local talk radio, too.


16 posted on 02/18/2005 8:29:47 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: RepoGirl

You get an "A." I looked in the newspaper and it is spelled correctly but the online copy is spelled as posted. I guess an editor made a correction somewhere along the line.


17 posted on 02/18/2005 8:32:22 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
If these clowns hate America and love socialism and communism so much maybe they should try moving...
see how long they last elsewhere!
I would bet dollars to donuts not a one of them has ever set foot in Iraq or Afghanistan much less laced up a pair of combat boots in their lives and been in battle!
If these Beantown morons ever ventured out of their cozy existence in New England to places like Viet Nam, Germany, Poland, China and Russia and actually conversed with those who lived and suffered under Nazism and Communism they might, just might be in for a very rude awakening...and then again...there are none so blind...

Semper Fi,
Kelly
18 posted on 02/18/2005 8:32:58 AM PST by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: kellynla

I checked IMDB.com for a bio on the actress, not knowing much about her, and she was born in California, went to HS in Maryland and graduated the University of Texas.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001315/bio


19 posted on 02/18/2005 8:39:47 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
D'oh!

For some stupid reason, when I read Adams -- I thought of the Adams Motor Inn on the South Shore and made the connection that it was taking place there. D'oh! I have to forfeit my proofreeding score, don't I?

What college, may I ask? I went to Eckerd in St. Pete and grad school at FIU.

20 posted on 02/18/2005 9:04:23 AM PST by RepoGirl (Rottweilers are republican; all cats vote nader.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

yea, another "educated" fool! LMAO

you didn't happen to see any "armed combat service" in the bio now did ya?
I didn't think so


21 posted on 02/18/2005 9:04:25 AM PST by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: kellynla

Like I said in my original post, they have a "twisted mentality."


22 posted on 02/18/2005 9:07:42 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

these clowns are just products of a socialist education...
who says communism is dead? LOL


23 posted on 02/18/2005 9:09:49 AM PST by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: kellynla

I wonder what she is doing with her salary from this play? Wouldn't she be a hypocrite if she pocketed the money and profited off the war?


24 posted on 02/18/2005 9:11:54 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
well we all know the M.O. of these clowns...
they hate America but live here
they hate democracy but refuse to leave
they hate the military while it protects their rights and freedoms to spew their vile anti-American rhetoric
and when the rubber hits the road you don't see any of these clowns at the recruiting offices.

Their hypocrisy knows no bounds...
25 posted on 02/18/2005 9:24:22 AM PST by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

In keeping with the Hollywood/American way, Laura Bush should file an expensive defamation-of-character lawsuit against the actress, the playhouse, the sponsors, whoever has the deepest pockets. A little taste of their own medicine?
Imagine the reaction to a play/movie about Saddam or Islamic terrorists killing innocent children. Oh wait, that might offend someone.


26 posted on 02/18/2005 9:36:09 AM PST by angryirish
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