Posted on 06/12/2017 12:08:38 PM PDT by blam
Several Hollywood celebrities have called for a boycott of Delta Air Lines and Bank of America after the two companies announced Sunday they would no longer sponsor the New York City Public Theater over a controversial staging of Julius Caesar in which a Trump look-alike is brutally murdered on stage. In separate statements Sunday, Delta and Bank of America said they would no longer sponsor this summer’s Free Shakespeare in the Park series over the Oskar Eustis-directed production of Julius Caesar, which opened in previews last month and is set to open for a limited run Monday in Central Park’s Delacorte Theater.
In the play, Caesar sports a slicked-back blond haircut and a business suit, while his wife Calpurnia speaks with a Slavic accent. During the climax of the play, the Trump-inspired Caesar is brutally stabbed to death by his associates in the Senate.
The character’s resemblance to the president has shocked some attendees and sparked a backlash among his supporters.
“No matter what your political stance may be, the graphic staging of Julius Caesar at this summer’s Free Shakespeare in the Park does not reflect Delta Air Lines’ values,” the company said in a statement Sunday. “Their artistic and creative direction crossed the line on the standards of good taste.”
Added Bank of America: “The Public Theater chose to present Julius Caesar in a way that was intended to provoke and offend. Had this intention been made known to us, we would have decided not to sponsor it.”
Now, Hollywood figures including House of Cards creator Beau Willimon, The Wire creator David Simon, actor Ron Perlman and others have taken to social media to blast the companies for pulling their sponsorships, and some called for an active boycott against them
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In the old days, actors were basically considered low-lifes.
I’d say that view was overall pretty accurate.
These lunatic leftists really hate it when their own tactics are used against them.
Yawn....They do not fly Delta.
Can you imagine the outcry, if an Obama look alike character had been the victim????
I don’t get it tho, if this is a performance of the play Julius Caesar, why would there be a Trump look alike there??? Just to get in our faces???
We're going to have to do that in real life, anyway.
Celebretards. Period.
I still consider them low lifes..................
Today’s irrational, left makes it impossible to have any common-ground.
Extreme hate is all they’re about. Most of it based on imagination of what they think Trump will do.
I wonder if these same Hollywood idiots would have lavished artistic praise on a modern interpretation of Othello (black) lookalike Obama killing himself onstage?
After all, it’s just Shakespeare, right?
This is because Hollywood hates America.
This is why they like radical Islam.
Both hate America.
Why don’t those celebrities fork-over the cash to fund this crapola?
I've been thinking something similar.
I didn’t know Ron Perlman was a douche. That’s a shame.
It used to be that actors were deemed to be such scum that they were buried far from the outskirts of town, not worthy of Christian funeral rites.
Delta just issued a statement regarding the rich and famous they said thats what delta stands for
Don’t
Even
Let
Them
Aboard
I’m all for boycotting “celebrities.”
Yawn....They do not fly Delta.
Actually, I would guess a lot of celebs do fly Delta. They have better business class than United. I believe traditionally American Airlines was the big airline for Hollywood but who knows now.
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