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On Reagan’s Birthday, Let’s Remember the Gipper’s Film Career – Part 2
The reports and books that were timed with Reagan’s 100th birthday last February tended to mention the Hollywood years as a mere afterthought. Moreover, most Reagan biographers typically focus on the more well-known movies such as “Kings Row and “Knute Rockne.”
But there are several films worth revisiting that have gone largely unheralded. [...]
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Sports Broadcast Veteran: NBC’s Super Bowl BirdGate ‘Shouldn’t Have Happened’
The NFL blamed NBC for allowing video of singer M.I.A. flashing her middle finger to be seen by 111.3 million viewers on Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast. NBC, in turn, blamed the NFL for hiring the talent behind the incident.
Stuart Katz, an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University’s Department of Strategic Communication, said all the finger [...]
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Rush Limbaugh: Eastwood Got ‘Scammed’ by Chrysler
El Rushbo didn’t mince words on EastwoodGate today.
Rush Limbaugh, back behind the golden EIB microphone following a one-day vacation, addressed the Chrysler Super Bowl ad featuring Clint Eastwood. And the talk show titan didn’t like what he heard.
I think he got scammed. I think he got roped into doing something he thought was patriotic [...]
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Dwayne ‘Proud to Be an American’ Johnson Mulls Political Future
Dwayne Johnson, the actor once known by his wrestling moniker “The Rock,” couldn’t wait to Tweet about the death of Osama bin Laden.
Johnson is just as eager to share his love for the U.S. and talk about how he shows it now … and in the future. Turns out we might have another actor-turned-politician on [...]
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Hollywood Cheers Prop 8 Ruling Via Twitter
The celebrities have spoken - at 140 characters at a time – to show their support for today’s court ruling striking down Proposition 8.
TheWrap.com:
Not many bold faced names expressed any outrage, which is not that surprising as Hollywood is a liberal town, after all. That was left to folks on the other end [...]
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Eastwood’s Chrysler Ad Undermines Maverick Persona
Small wonder the White House has tweeted approval of Clint Eastwood’s Super Bowl Chrysler commercial. From its calls for America to “be as one,” one wouldn’t know that Eastwood doesn’t approve of the Obama administration.
One also wouldn’t know that Eastwood calls himself a libertarian. For Eastwood’s speech, with its calls for unity and [...]
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Television’s Demographic Scam: Bamboozled Advertisers Could Learn Something From Madonna, NFL
Everyone knows that the typical advertisement on the Super Bowl goes for millions of dollars. And we all wonder why the ads they produce for that money feature children peeing in pools, monkeys farting, and bungee jumping cars. Those don’t seem like particularly good uses of company funding.
And they aren’t. They’re commercials targeted to the [...]
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Daily Call Sheet: Redbox Domination, Axl Rose Makes You Feel Old, Best Song Crybabies
‘BLADE RUNNER’ MAKERS AT ALCON SAY HARRISON FORD NOT IN TALKS TO STAR
But the scuttlebutt sure got the project a lot of attention. Well done, Hollywood. Well done.
AXL ROSE TURNS 50 TODAY
Which means I’m like a hundred or something.
You know, this whole passage of time thing is really starting to freak me out.
FILM SCHOOL REJECTS: [...]
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Trailer Talk: New ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ Spot Serves Up the Action … Too Much of the Plot?
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Not sure what director Marc Webb’s reboot offers that’s much different than the three that came before, but that’s probably the idea. No sense in fixing what isn’t broken.
This trailer, though, does seem to give away almost all of the plot.
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Clint Eastwood Opposed Obama’s Auto Bailout
***ADDED: Fascinating read on how, contrary to Obama/media spin, the auto bailouts failed and cost the taxpayers billions.
How did Clint Eastwood and the people around him not see the partisan storm coming with this ad? Eastwood’s a smart guy, as a Hollywood survivor and former mayor, he understands how politics works.
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Because Obama’s decided to eliminate [...]
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