Posted on 09/26/2007 9:17:20 AM PDT by stan_sipple
Sign of the times
Is Los Angeles — and its movie-making mavens — as liberal as is generally assumed? Not according to Steve Finefrock, the founder of the Hollywood Conservative Forum.
“One-quarter, maybe even one-third of the people making a living in Hollywood are conservative,” he told an audience at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. “If you include Arnold Schwarzenegger-type conservatives, it could be as high as 45 percent. But they keep their mouths shut.”
Finefrock, a former Democrat and a writer of relatively obscure screenplays, began his organization in 2005. In the organization’s first newsletter, he wrote: “Let the Forum be the meeting place, first by e-mail, then in person to get acquainted in Hollywood’s watering holes, then scheme to blast a hole in Hollywood’s left-wing dominance of what we see in TV and the movies.”
In order to affect the culture, he argues, Hollywood’s right-wingers need only to reduce the film industry’s output from “98 percent” liberal to about “80 percent.”
Finefrock says because conservative penetration is already so high, “We don’t have to slip in behind the lines, we just have to find our Moses.”
Charlton Heston, sadly, no longer is working.
I agree it is nice to know we have a friend in Hollywood.
Speaking of Westerns..
I have no idea of the politics of the main actors involved (I generally ignore that stuff with a few exceptions such as Hugo’s new Hollyweird pals) but I did enjoy the recent “3:10 to Yuma”, despite it’s somewhat silly ending.
Of course, I’ve been a little starved for decent and new Westerns...
I want to know when are we going to get a ‘pro’ or at least ‘neutral’ movie about a battle in Iraq like Fallujah? Iraq is full of block buster quality subjects and there are many books and diaries that excellent subject matter could be made in to a movie. We still have never gotten anything decent from the 1st Iraq war (sorry, but Jar Head does not count and that movie just sucked).
All that we get now from Hollywood is leftist views about Iraq or the WOT so I don’t buy in to this theory that there are many conservatives in Hollywood.
Re: Larry the Cable Guy, Health Inspector was stupid but funny. You'd think, since the Blue Collar Comedy films are so great, that they'd be able to come up with something better than Delta Farce.
I enjoyed the original 3:10 to Yuma with Glenn Ford and Van Heflin. Don’t like western remakes. Can’t think of one that was worth a crap.
One wouldn't expect Larry to be making Citizen Kane anyhow. =]
Well, I’m just a young buck at 48 y/o and not a huge movie buff so I didn’t even realize it was a remake. I’ll have to rent it - thanks for the tip.
I suggest Open Range with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall. And Monte Walsh with Tom Selleck.
Yuma is pretty good. Some of it is great. Hope you like “Witless.” I think it’s quite a bit better than “Delta” - but I’m not exactly objective!
True.
ping for later
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