Posted on 02/19/2003 11:12:33 PM PST by photogirl
This is taken from the Winwithoutwarus.org site. Please boycott these "actors"
Mike Farrell, Co-Chair--- Robert Greenwald, Co-Chair--- Gillian Anderson--- Edward Asner--- Rene Auberjonois--- David Bale--- Kim Basinger--- Ed Begley, Jr.--- Theo Bikel--- Barbara Bosson--- Jackson Browne--- Peter Buck (REM)--- Diahann Carroll--- Eugene J. Carroll, Jr., --- Rear Adm. U.S. Navy (Ret.)--- Kathleen Chalfant--- Don Cheadle---- Jill Clayburgh--- David Clennon--- Jack Coleman--- Peter Coyote--- Lindsay Crouse--- Suzanne Cryer--- Matt Damon--- Dana Daurey--- Ambassador Jonathan Dean--- (U.S. Rep. to NATO Warsaw Pact)--- Vincent D’Onofrio--- David Duchovny--- Olympia Dukakis--- Charles S. Dutton--- Hector Elizondo--- Cary Elwes--- Shelley Fabares--- Mike Farrell---- Mia Farrow--- Laurence Fishburne--- Sean Patrick Flanery--- Bonnie Franklin---- John Fugelsang--- Jeananne Garafalo--- Larry Gelbart---- Melissa Gilbert--- Danny Glover------ Elliott Gould--- Samaria Graham---- Robert Greenwald---- Robert Guillaume---- Paul Haggis--- Robert David Hall--- Ethan Hawke--- Ken Howard--- Helen Hunt--- Anjelica Huston---LaTanya Richardson Jackson--- Samuel L. Jackson--- Jane Kaczmarek--- Melina Kanakaredes--- Casey Kasem--- Mimi Kennedy--- Jessica Lange--- Tea Leoni--- Wendie Malick---- Camryn Manheim--- Marsha Mason----- Richard Masur---- Dave Matthews------ Kent McCord---- Robert Duncan McNeill---- Mike Mills (REM)------- Janel Moloney---- Esai Morales--- Ed O'’Neill--- Chris Noth---- Peter Onorati---- Alexandra Paul---- Ambassador Edward Peck (former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq)--- Seth Peterson--- CCH Pounder--- David Rabe--- Alan Rachins--- Bonnie Raitt--- Carl Reiner--- Tim Robbins--- Steve Robinson, Sgt., U.S. Army (Ret.)---- Mitch Ryan--- Susan Sarandon--- Tony Shalhoub--- Jack Shanahan, Vice Adm. U.S. Navy (Ret.)---- William Schallert--- Martin Sheen--- Armin Shimerman---- Gloria Steinem--- Marcia Strassman---- Michael Stipe (REM)--- Susan Sullivan---- Loretta Swit--- Studs Terkel--- Lily Tomlin--- Blair Underwood--- Dennis Weaver--- Bradley Whitford--- James Whitmore--- James Whitmore, Jr.--- Alfre Woodard--- Noah Wyle--- Peter Yarrow--- Howard Zinn
Um, I think there's a real good reason for that. Mr. O'Connor isn't available for Leftist dupe duties any longer.
Sam Elliott
name a few more for me
Mel Gibson
Tom Selleck
Bo Derek
James Earl Jones
Sean Astin
BINGO! There's the answer. Other than LOTR I haven't been to a move in 12-14 years. I spend my evenings with the children, surfing the net, at social events, church, political events and working with service organizations. Most everything shows up on tv sooner or later anyway.
amazing..
also, please add John Rhys-Davies - I have posted the info on my blog...
Everytime I see a list like this I am reminded that the right refuses to take its own advice and turn off the television and radio. People wouldn't get so hysterical about some musician's idiotic spewing if they weren't, at heart, seeing this drug-addled waste-of-oxygen as a good person, worthy of emulation. Don't boycott movies or CDs-- stop buying People magazine and turn off Entertainment Tonight. Examan your cult of celebrity.
If an actor really really believes that the environment is in danger, they should put their own money to the cause, and campaign in arenas that are relevant to that cause. They should also demonstrate that they have RESEARCHED the cause as much as possible. Far too many agree to be automatic mouthpieces for eco-terrorist groups like Greenpeace and Earth First without ever having looked into the issue. Far too many are willing to grandstand for a cause for their own personal glory, rather than working with others who have devoted themselves to the cause.
It also irks me that actors presume to think they can influence legislation by accompanying lobbies (Meryl Streep, Harrison Ford) to harrass Congressmen into passing laws on things they think should happen, but that is closer to the process of civil participation than doing an egregious commercial full of lies (Susan Sarandon.) Congressmen at least have the ability, as representatives of their constituents to say yea or nay to the lobbiests...who can answer to a commercial and pin Susan Sarandon to the wall for what she said? How can people respond? There are no representatives to talk to, no collective ability to fund a rebuttal. She hasn't garnered the constituency to answer to, only fandom...and they are very selective about which part of the fandom they will listen to. Its this illegitimate form of influence that sullies true American civil society. They are Marxists. They refuse to be held accountable.
Still, there *are* movies I would like to see, despite who may be in them. I will definitely support the conservative actors, but if one of them is not in a movie that I am particularly interested in, it will be hard for me to agree to go.
Lord of the Rings Two Towers was the last movie I saw, despite the fact that McKellen is a flaming homosexual with an extreme communist view, and Viggo has proved himself to be as dumb as a rock outside the role of Aragorn, but there is also Sean Astin and John Rhys Davies...and Elijah Wood, who, from all interviews I have read, has a very good head on his shoulders. He is a rarity and is nothign but class. For all I know, he may be as communist as McKellen, but he doesn't presume to 'own' the bully pulpit. He knows what he has to do to earn that...and that is not the ambition that he has for himself. Even if his views are anti-American, I would support going to any movie he is in simply because he is a wonderfully talented actor and THAT deserves my support.
If Sean Astin decides to run for office, he is taking the steps necessary to gain a constituency and is courageous enough to put himself in the line of criticism. I may or may not agree with his vision of government, but he at least will have earned the bully pulpit by running for election. THAT is the freedom of speech we need to be bolstering.
Isn't she the President of the Screen Actors Guild and a Republican?
... too cool! Gary Moore, ZZ Top and sneak in a little Grand Funk Railroad. ... also, if I blow the picture again ... sorry.
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