Posted on 03/07/2003 12:11:40 PM PST by lisaann8
Rebuttal to Melissa Gilbert, president of the Screen Actors Guild who appeared on Mitch Alboms radio show on March 6, 2003
Melissa Gilbert, president of the Screen Actors Guild has issued a press release and appeared on Mitch Alboms radio program yesterday to discuss the current situation with Hollywood speaking out on the possible war with Iraq.
HERO would like to address some of these statements. Ms. Gilbert seems concerned about a return of the McCarthy Era and the Hollywood Blacklist. Any historian could tell you that the McCarthy hearings were run by the government, not the grassroots who are objecting today to the Hollywood Left. Ms. Gilbert also mentioned the gray list in Hollywood toward conservatives that exists today. She asserted that that is just as wrong, the one thing she said we can agree with.
The disappointment and anger being directed at certain members of the Hollywood community is not coming from the government, its coming from the Heartland, the consumers, the people whose largess allows these people their fame in the first place. The people, who go to movies, watch TV or rent a movie at Blockbuster. And all over the country they are hopping mad.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywood-hero.us ...
I believe a "blacklist" would be when a person's political views are used to prevent them from finding employment (kinda like what happens to any actor who comes out as a conservative). What is happening now is called "market forces". Ms. Gilbert obviously does not understand this concept. You put out a product to the public, Ms. Gilbert, and then the public decides (for whatever reason) to purchase or not to purchase that product.
If you are having problems selling your product, then the thing to do is to evaluate what might be going wrong, or why the public is not interested in what you are selling. Of course, if you are a Hollywood movie star, you instead begin whining about how unfair it all is.
You got that right and Hollywood can Kiss My ***!
As for Gilbert and trying to blame the Government ...
TRY LOOKING IN THE MIRROR HONEY .. the government didn't make YOU and the other Nit Wits bash this country
He once said of his relationship: "Flaunting your sexuality offends people and what's the point in doing that if you are trying to win them over?"
I think the same could be said of actors and their political views.
It's worse than that. It is saying that an actor/actress, where boycotts which made them radioactive, should still be considered for, perhaps even given, roles by a company looking to make money off their marketability.
Throw in the taunts of censorship and McCarthyism when no one has been black listed and you see the hysterical reaction to a problem that is not there(ie blacklist a coordinated effort by employers to prevent employment). Now flip it and the left will boycott, call for laws against and work in the back cenes to punish those who do not agree with them. Look at how conservative actors and actresses are treated.
Film
The Cheap Detective The Babe Tank Star Trek: First Contact Species II Snow Falling on Cedars Romeo Is Bleeding Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise Revenge of the Nerds Pink Cadillac Owd Bob Oh, God! You Devil Nobody's Perfekt Murder by Death L.A. Confidential Explorers Eraser Deep Impact Babe: Pig in the City Babe A Fine Mess The Education of Little Tree The General's Daughter The Green Mile The House of God The Man with Two Brains The People vs. Larry Flynt The Rescue The Runnin' Kind Winter
TV
Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation Once an Eagle Miracle Landing Mama's Boy In a Child's Name Hot L Baltimore Girl in the Empty Grave Easy Street Dream West Deadly Game Christine Cromwell: Things That Go Bump in the Night China Beach All in the Family Alison's Demise A Christmas Without Snow Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love Spraggue The Last Precinct The Nancy Walker Show The Rainmaker The Shaggy Dog
TV Guest Appearances
Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Scarecrow and Mrs. King Renegade Picket Fences Partners Night Court Maude Matlock M*A*S*H Little House on the Prairie Life Goes On L.A. Law Knight Rider Jake and the Fatman Home Improvement Hill Street Blues Hawkeye Eight Is Enough Buffalo Bill Barney Miller Barbary Coast The Client The Twilight Zone The White Shadow The Young Riders Three's Company Wildside
Applause!!! Excellent points!
Does that mean I can't watch "The Brady Bunch" anymore?
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