Monthly Archives: September 2008

Steven Spielberg says No on Prop. 8.

In a welcome follow up to an earlier story, Brad Pitt’s altruistic act of last week has now been matched by Mr. Spielberg. He and his wife, Kate Capshaw, have donated $100,000 to the fight against Proposition 8, California’s repugnant … Continue reading

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Emmys…Failure on an Epic Scale!

Last night, this country was subjected to one of the most boring, incompetent, ego-saturated intellectual vacuums in the history of this or any other sentient race. When you’re sixty you’re expected to be a little slow and forgetful. After fifty-nine … Continue reading

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A win for U4S and Sanity

This, my friends, is a great day. Those wonderful folk at Variety are reporting that the moderate SAG group, Unite for Strength, has secured six of the eleven seats they so bravely contested for the last few months. This is … Continue reading

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Mr. Pitt Goes to Sacramento…

Segueing neatly from yesterday’s story we have an example of a Celebrity willing to lend both their high-profile weight and their hard-earned cash to a cause others might only claim to believe in: Brad Pitt is donating $100,000 to help … Continue reading

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Democrats Should Dig Deeper…

Today’s editions of MSNBC.com carried the news that Mr. Obama was schmoozing with some of Hollywood’s more notable residents last night – including Barbra – and raised [and I quote] ‘an eye-popping $9-million for his Presidential campaign.’ Considering the guest … Continue reading

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Fox, I’m calling you out!…

Did you ever have one of those dreams that’s so vivid, you’re convinced you’re awake and it’s real – Then an event in the dream wakes you up with start…and you realize it was all just a ghastly illusion? I’m … Continue reading

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