Hollywood Minute: A Political Year in Review

You may have thought that all your Hollywood favs would stay focused on rehab and divorce now that their boy Al Gore tanked like a Henry Jaglom movie at a junior high slumber party, but well, uh, oops. They didn’t. And so now it’s time, to take a moment to reflect on a year when Hollywood mega-stars gave their valuable opinions on everything from war to child-rearing…

Rosie O’Donnell: Hates guns, loves Bush. Bragged that she went to Yankee Stadium without her full time armed guard. Guess what, Rosie? Secret Service doesn’t take kindly to police academy drop-outs with firearms going Clint Eastwood anywhere near the President, so let's not try to make it sound like an act of bravery, get it? Got it? Good.

Okay, anyone who DIDN’T say that George W. Bush would never be your president, please step forward...

Hi, I played a doctor in a movie once. I can remove those tonsils for you, Martin.

Winona Ryder: here’s the stats: businesses lose about $16 billion a year to shoplifting. Each family in the U.S. spends $300 per year to make up the difference. You cost us half our tax rebate, sweetie. It's called an orange jumpsuit. Get used to it.

Babs wrote a letter to all the Democrats in Congress. “Dear Every liberal in Congress. Bush stole the election. You guys are wimps. Sincerely, Barbra.”

Want kids but don’t want a husband? Ask yourselves: WWRD: What would Rosie Do?

Hey princess, wasn’t that a kick when your boy Brad teased Jenna Bush about drinking?
Hey Malibu Brad, wasn’t that funny when your wife’s movie Rock Star sank faster than Leo DiCaprio at the end of Titanic? It’s called, you’re good looking, but you’re idiots. Deal with it.

Hi, I’m going to run for office someday. I’m a war hero. I shot down seven of those planey thingies at Pearl Harbor.

THE QUOTES:

Julia Roberts: "The man's embarrassing. He's not my president and he never will be either."

From a Larry Elder essay on Martin Sheen: Yet, only weeks later, Sheen tells London's BBC that he finds Bush "a moron." And the Brits undoubtedly yucked it up when Sheen called "Alcoholics Anonymous and jazz" the only important American exports. At a speaking engagement in Berkeley, Calif., he said the media may love Bush, but "he's still a moron," adding, "He's trying all the big stuff and doesn't want to leave well enough alone. It gets real, real scary for me." Sheen calling Bush a moron? For the record, a Sheen biography says that he "purposely flunked his college entrance exam to the University of Dayton so that he could pursue an acting career instead."

On ABC's "Good Morning America," Affleck said about his inevitable jump to politics: "I mean, I think of having a more broad spectrum of people in political life would be helpful to the process. I've just fantasized about doing it myself because, I don't know, I think it would be less invasive than being an actor. I would get my private life back." (The Hotline)

Julia Roberts: "We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.”

Harvey Weinstein, head of Miramax: "If you had a recount today, Al Gore would get 90 percent of the vote and Bush would get 10 percent, and Bill Clinton would be the honorary Treasury secretary and we wouldn't have this economic crisis, because the way the stock market was going we're all going to be wiped out." (Washington Post)

ROSIE O'DONNELL: "I love him now!" O'Donnell told KRLA-AM's Dennis Prager. O'Donnell said she even got to Yankee Stadium an hour early for a World Series game so that she could videotape Bush! 'I brought a videocamera and my six year old son and no security so that my son could see the president," said O'Donnell. (Drudge Report)

Camryn Manheim: "It's the way of the future, so people better start opening up their minds and expanding their horizons," lectures pregnant single actress Camryn Manheim of TV's "The Practice." "I feel sorry [for people who] can't celebrate such beauty." (from Debbie Schlussel WND)

On Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston: Before "first daughter" Jenna Bush returned to school, she interned at Brad and Jennifer's management company. The couple couldn't help it but to make her feel a little more comfortable as she walked through the halls.

"We'd pass her in the hall and Brad would say, 'Heyyyy, Jenna, wanna beer? I got one in the truck!'" Jennifer laughed.

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