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Rob Lowe: "I think you gotta support those amazing men and women who are over there about to execute whatever we do, and I think the best way you can do that is to get behind the most visible embodiment of them, and that's the Commander-in-Chief." Steven Spielberg: "Bush has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction and steps being taken against Iraq are valid." Rick Schroeder: "Rick is one of the few well-know actors in Hollywood prepared to acknowledge his active Republican and conservative views." Jean Claude Van Damme: "Some of those...

Moore-less Mel Gibson THE LEFT COAST REPORT A Political Look at Hollywood A conservative chorus rang out throughout the land. “Say it Ain’t So, Mel!” was the right thinker’s reaction when the story broke that Mel Gibson’s Icon Productions was going to be involved with Michael Moore's flimflam foray “Fahrenheit 911.” Moore probably hopes to fill movie screens with a bunch of Bush-bashing baloney just in time for the presidential campaign of 2004. But now, according to Variety, word has it that Gibson’s pulled the plug on Icon’s financial involvement with the pseudo-documentary maker’s latest project. So, where does a...

Spielberg to NewsMax: Cuba Lied About What I Said Hollywood is finally learning what everyone else knew all along: Bloodthirsty Cuban dictator Fidel Castro can't be trusted. Tinseltown's top movie director, Steven Spielberg, wants NewsMax and our readers to know that Castro's regime is exploiting him with a lie. Our columnist Humberto Fontova, zinging Castro's American groupies (shockingly, there are still plenty, even after the dictator's latest atrocities), mentioned a notorious quotation attributed to Spielberg: that meeting Castro was "the eight most important hours of [his] life." Spielberg's people contacted our people to proclaim that the director never made any...

The man in the hat is back - and on DVD for the first time. Looking to tide folks over until the eventual release of the fourth Indiana Jones feature, Paramount Home Entertainment announced Tuesday that it finally plans on releasing the first three Indy films on November 4, 2003 as part of a four-disc DVD set. Dubbed The Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Complete DVD Movie Collection, the set will not only feature all three Indy flicks -1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade...

Rupert Murdoch's Twentieth Century Fox is facing a furious backlash from film fans who have received unsolicited phone calls to promote the video and DVD of its Tom Cruise movie Minority Report. The film giant this week launched Britain's first voicemail message campaign to persuade film buffs to buy the movie. It marks a significant development in the aggressive world of direct marketing - consumers have had to tolerate junk-mail on their door mat for years, and are now battling with the electronic equivalent, spam emails - but it is believed this is the first time anyone has attempted a...