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POLIWOOD: D Tonight at 7:30 on Showtime. Director Barry Levinson’s 90-minute “Poliwood” is billed as a film essay. That’s like calling the back of a cereal box a novel. Say what you will about Michael Moore, but at least he knows how to spin a story. Levinson (“Rain Man”) aims to explore the crash of politics, celebrity and media. He’s fascinated as to why performers are greeted with hostility when they become politically active. He trails famous members of the Creative Coalition, Hollywood’s nonprofit, nonpartisan lobbying group for arts funding, through the 2008 Democratic and Republican presidential conventions. The coalition’s...

"...In fact, as I discovered when we met, he had majored in Chinese and Spanish at SUNY Binghamton, and then taken a Masters in Chinese at St. John’s, followed by a year on scholarship at the University of Taiwan. He spent almost half of that time backpacking through the Golden Triangle. Or, as I would put it to him, “backpacking”. He was too serious to be a tourist; and too smart to be on some Pineapple Express. What else was left but CIA? His reply to my questioning and teasing would always be one of those patented Silverian smiles, half...

SILVER'S BRAVERY NOT AN ACTMarch 18, 2009 I wish I could ask Ron Silver what he thinks of the AIG bonuses. He'd have some original take -- maybe propose re-opening the bonuses paid to Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick for their yeoman's work running Fannie Mae into the ground and then collecting bonuses of $90 million and $24.7 million, respectively. Or maybe he'd just make a joke. But I can't ask him anymore because Ron died of a rare esophageal cancer last Sunday. So now there is one less person in the world who never chooses his positions to feed...

Much like the crisis that was too good to ignore as we rushed to spend 4 year's worth of money in 14 days, the AIG bonus debacle was just too rich for Democrats to pass up. Here's a tip: Democrats believe that finding an easy target to prop up as enemy #1 makes them seem superior. Limbaugh yesterday, AIG today. Meanwhile, someone is escaping out the back door with all of your money, in sums that make the AIG bonuses seem like tip jar money!

This moving video, with highlights from the career of actor Ron Silver, who died yesterday, after a long battle with cancer.It was originally created by Jeffers Dodge on November 21, 2007.Ron Silver was recently honored at the Restoration Weekend, sponsored by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. You can now watch this POWERFUL video tribute to Ron Silver on the CONSERVATIVE alternative to YouTube, PopModal.com:Ron Silver in Memoriam - RIP . . Produced/Directed/Edited by Jeffers M. Dodge for the David Horowitz Freedom CenterRuntime: 3m 53s

Actor Ron Silver, who won a Tony Award as a take-no-prisoners Hollywood producer in David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" and did a political about-face from loyal Democrat to Republican activist after the Sept. 11 attacks, died Sunday at the age of 62. "Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him early Sunday morning" in New York City, said Robin Bronk, executive director of the Creative Coalition, which Silver helped found. "He had been fighting esophageal cancer for two years."

Actor and longtime political activist Ron Silver died this morning, succumbing to a long battle with cancer, friends of the liberal Democrat-turned-GOP stalwart told The Post. "Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him this morning," said Robin Bronk, executive director of the Creative Coalition, which Silver helped create. "He had been fighting esophageal cancer for two years and his family is making arrangements for a private service." Friends of Silver first told Post columnist Cindy Adams of the native New Yorker's death. The steely-eyed, blunt-talking Silver, 62, enjoyed a long career on the stage, TV...

Often when I walked onto the set of the West Wing some of my colleagues would greet me with a chanting of “Ron, Ron, the neo-con.” It was all done in fun but it had an edge. -snip- As far as I can tell, my politics, with regard to American foreign policy and projection of American power haven’t changed very much from what they’ve always been—what I would call revolutionary liberalism. I have always resisted reactionaries from the left or right, Democrat or Republican. At the moment, the reactionary forces on the left, the Democratic netroots and their supporters—Mickey Colitis...

Often when I walked onto the set of the West Wing some of my colleagues would greet me with a chanting of “Ron, Ron, the neo-con.” It was all done in fun but it had an edge. Since speaking in support of George Bush at the 2004 Republican convention I’ve become increasingly disadmired by members of my profession as well as many others. As of this writing my family tells me they still love me. I believe them, but stay tuned, as another presidential cycle is upon us. I find myself increasingly amused as folks extrapolate my support for...

The presidential electoral cycle is upon us. That means conventions. Conventions have platforms. I propose a platform that will make the world like us again. Just like they always did.It may take 12 steps to get clean and sober, but only 6 to make the world realize just how super the U.S. can be.1. We can start by helping the Arabs retake Andalusia. Having conquered it once, it belongs to them forever. This goes for most of the Balkans as well as Austria up to the gates of Vienna. All infidels should convert to Islam. This is inevitable as Islam...

POLITICIAN turned actor turned politician Fred Thompson may have a Hollywood strategy when it comes to his presidential run (after all, he did announce his candidacy this week on the Jay Leno show), but he'll have a hard time getting a Hollywood audience. For starters, the entertainment industry Democrats are much too busy shuttling between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton fundraisers to even think about helping out a fellow actor, let alone a conservative Republican one. And the Hollywood Republicans -- what few there are -- already have yard signs out for the far more moderate Rudolph W. Giuliani....

Paste this in your address line and sit back and see what the Arabs (say) about the 9/11 attacks. It might shock you or just confirm what you have always felt about their feelings and attitudes toward us. http://www.memrifilms.org/

Ron Silver ...Indeed, you're a former liberal Democrat who became a Bush convert only recently. What do you have against the Democrats? The Democratic Party is becoming the tool of an extreme domestic leftist insurgency led by the Michael Moores and the Cindy Sheehans and other neoreactionary, neoisolationist Americans. ...[my] new documentary, "Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60," which portrays the U.N. as the height of incompetence. If you and I put a flag outside our door and we called ourselves a country, we would have a seat at the table. Is that some sort of cheap shot at...

NEW YORK — Actor Ron Silver says he has had fewer movie offers and dinner invitations since he parted political company with his Hollywood colleagues and spoke at the Republican National Convention last year. But he is sinking his teeth into his new role: conservative activist. Today, Silver will release a documentary on DVD called "Broken Promises," a scathing criticism of what Silver considers the failures of the United Nations on its 60th anniversary. It follows on the heels of a DVD retort last year by Silver to Michael Moore called "Fahren-hype 911," carefully named so it would be placed...

The DC Chapter knows how it feels to "build it" and have nobody show up but our friends.Condolences to Dave Bossie. The guy with the droopy drawers was drawn into the rally by Ron Silver's inspirational speech. Silver gave those present alot to think about. This young man lost both of his legs in Iraq. He was not on the announced list of speakers, and I didn't catch his name. I think he was a little dispirited by the turnout. Tracy Byrd gave a very good performance to end the rally; and passing tourists joined the audience.

Please Join Citizens United Foundation and Citizens United, June 11, 2005 from 12 to 3 on the national mall to celebrate Freedom and Democracy. Musical guests include country music super star Tracy Byrd and former American Idol finalist, Kimberly Caldwell. Confirmed speakers include actor Ron Silver, Major Bob Bevelaqua, former Iraqi POW Tommy Hamill, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and FOX News contributor Mike Gallagher, Government and Media Officer with the Afghan Embassy, Ashraf Haidari as well as speakers from the Ukraine, Iraq and Lebanon. In support of our troops please bring supplies such as toiletries, calling cards, and...

Actor Ron Silver, newly-turned supporter of President Bush and various conservative causes, being interviewed on "Hollywood and Politics" by Jeff Greenfield on C-Span for probably the next hour...also, Charles Krauthammer to be interviewed by Brian Lamb on C-Span this evening at 8:00.....

Tongues are wagging about the recent intimate dinners between actor and frequent "Hardball" guest Ron Silver and leggy, blond, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter. The two were spotted dining together twice in recent weeks. The other night they were at Elio's, and a Lowdown spy said, "They looked like they were on a date." Silver threw cold water on any romantic speculation. "I'm deeply interested in slander and I needed to know how to talk to a liberal," Silver quipped, having fun with the titles of two of Coulter's best-selling books. Coulter, meanwhile, E-mailed: "Ron Silver is a great American, but...

Tongues were wagging about recent intimate dinners between actor and frequent 'Hardball' guest Ron Silver and leggy, blonde, right wing pundit Ann Coulter. The two were spotted dining twice together in recent weeks at Eilo's.Silver threw cold water on any romantic speculation, 'I'm deeply interested in 'Slander' and I need to know how to talk to a liberal,' he quipped, having fun with the titles of two of Coulter's best selling books. Coulter, menawhile E-mailed to us: Ron Silver is a great american, but Matt Drudge is my only true love.'I hear elsewhere that Silver and Coulter may have been...

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