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Category: Hollywood shitbags

  • Sean Penn doesn’t miss his “cowardly killing machines”

    Yes, I know, who cares – but this talentless clown by the name of Sean Penn had his gun collection destroyed and made into a sculpture and then sold it to Anderson Cooper for $1.4 million, according to MSN;

    Penn didn’t mention Theron by name during the auction but said that “a strong woman who happens to be from South Africa” changed his minds about owning the guns.

    “Being provoked by this aforementioned strong woman and considering how liberating of bulls–t and ugliness it would be not only get rid of the guns I have in the continental United States but also to destroy them, Jeff Koons and I had a chat the other day,” Penn said.

    He said, “The highest bidder gets every single one of my guns put in the hands of this iconic artist and sculptor…Koons will decommission [and] render inactive all of my cowardly killing machines.”

    So, I’m guessing that his body guards’ weapons won’t be put into the sculpture. It’s just so much mental masturbation. And all because Charlize Theron promised him a peek at the goodies. Of course, as groteseque as Penn looks these days, it’s probably the best he can hope for.

    Yeah, you should stay out of the comments at the link. Thanks to Pinto Nag for the link.

  • Liam Neeson’s Dixie Chick Moment

    Liam Neeson’s Dixie Chick Moment

    A few days ago, my wife saw an ad for Liam Neeson’s latest flick, Taken 3, another in a series featuring him as Bryan Mills, ex-intelligence operative who’s a one-man killing machine, against a boodle of bad guys. This latest outing is likely another of the formulaic, gratuitously violent shoot-em-ups for which he has become famous in his senior years. So my wife says to me, “You know, I like him; maybe we ought to go see that movie.” Well, Liam, the already slim chance of that happening just became nonexistent upon my reading your expletive-laced anti-gun comments when being asked about the French terror killings during a promotional tour press conference.

    At this gulfnews.com webpage, you can see Neeson posing in front of a wall-sized backdrop for his flick. The aging actor is depicted on the poster with a grimly determined visage and a black (gasp!) semi-automatic firmly in hand, ready to blast away. With that as a backdrop, the vintage vigilante hip-shot a full load of liberal hyperbole at the gun-owning American audience that has made his movies so successful:

    “There’s too many [expletive] guns out there,” he continued. “Especially in America. I think the population is like, 320 million? There’s over 300 million guns. Privately owned, in America. I think it’s a [expletive] disgrace. Every week now we’re picking up a newspaper and seeing, ‘Yet another few kids have been killed in schools.’”

    AWR Hawkins, writing at Breitbart.com, notes the hopeless Hollywood hypocrisy:

    Lost in the tirade was the fact that the discussion began with a focus on the attacks on Charlie Hebdo – attacks which took place in France, a country rich in gun control, yet one in which gun laws were impotent to spoil the plans of dedicated and well-trained attackers.

    Asked if he saw duplicity in fervently pushing gun control while making a living with a gun in his hand, Neeson said:

    “A character like Bryan Mills going out with guns and taking revenge: it’s fantasy. It’s in the movies, you know? I think it can give people a great release from stresses in life and all the rest of it, you know what I mean? It doesn’t mean [the viewers] are all going to go out and go, “Yeah, let’s get a gun!”

    No, Liam, it doesn’t mean that, but it probably does mean that a significant number of your usual fans are not going to be going to your latest movie. I rather suspect that until now, few of them were aware of your typical limousine-liberal views. And though you may hold your fans in complete contempt, as so many entertainers do, those fans, clinging to their guns, may just have sufficient cranial capacity to realize that your politically correct “Fine for me but not for thee”contempt should not be compensated. Oh, and my wife doesn’t like you anymore, Liam.

    Can you say Dixie Chick, Bubba?

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • Bergdahl movies?

    Bergdahl movies?

    Derek sends us a link to the UK’s Independent which reports that Kathryn Bigelow, the woman who made that horrible Hurt Locker movie as well as the controversial Zero Dark Thirty, is contemplating making a movie about that Bowe Bergdahl fellow who has been accused by his squad mates of deserting his unit;

    Bergdahl’s story seems a perfect fit for Bigelow, as it remains a hot topic in the press. He has been branded a deserter by some miltary men for abandoning his troops in 2009 after becoming disillusioned with what he saw as their incompetence.

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    Fox Searchlight is reported to be working on a rival film based on late Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hasting’s “America’s Last Prisoner of War” article. Todd Field is attached to direct.

    I can only imagine….

  • Fonda’s Lifetime Achievement

    Fonda’s Lifetime Achievement

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    According to the Los Angeles Times, our favorite (or least favorite) stank-ass hippie, Jane Fonda will get a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.

    It’s hard to think of someone in public life who has had more disparate phases and identities than Jane Fonda.

    There’s the brilliant actress (and daughter of a Hollywood legend), the polarizing political activist, the exercise maven, the rich celebrity wife, and now, once again, the working actress. Fonda admits that this last phase — what she calls her “third act” — has taken her by surprise.

    Seriously? She made some “B” movies in her youth, a couple of movies that I never saw in the 80s and some exercise videos. She wasted her talent, if she had any, on her political activism. She’s spent the last few decades trying to overcome that bad behavior, for which she has never really apologized. Even one of the shopping networks wouldn’t let her on the air because of the controversy she created in the early 70s. Fonda has had countless opportunities to make up for what she did in her trip through North Vietnam, but she can’t find the time obviously. She could have done something simple like sending care packages to the troops, but instead, she did fund-raising for Iraq Veterans Against the War. She’s done her best to deny that she is a traitor, but no one is hearing her.

    But, yeah, she deserves a lifetime achievement award. from Fox News;

    “We are truly honored to have Jane Fonda speak at this year’s commencement ceremony,” said Teri Schwartz, dean of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. “Jane is a visionary and a remarkable artist who has spent her life telling deeply powerful stories that have moved and inspired audiences worldwide to action for the greater good and to a greater understanding of our common humanity through her films, philanthropic efforts and personal journeys.”

    Yeah, she deserves the award for some terrible movies, for some exercise videos and for marrying rich. For that she’s a “visionary”.

  • Rosie O’Donnell & her connection to TSO

    ROS and Old Trooper sent us links to Real Clear Politics which makes the mistake, as Blackfive points out, that Rosie O’Donnell’s son, Parker has joined the military. Well, actually, he didn’t. He was accepted at The Citadel, TSO’s alma mater. If he graduates, he’ll be a commissioned officer.

    But here’s the video of O’Donnell’s announcement on The View;

    I’m pretty sure that her adopted son isn’t sticking his finger in her eye like she claims. If that was the only reason, he won’t make it. It takes a bit more commitment than that. But I wish him luck. He has already overcome a lot of shit in his life, given where he comes from, he’ll probably make a good officer.

  • SF art community disses Maria Conchita Alonso

    ROS sends us a link to an article at a San Francisco CBS station in regards to Maria Conchita Alonso being fired from a Spanish-language production of “The Vagina Monologues” because she made a commercial for a Tea Party Candidate for governor, Tim Donnelly. Here’s the commercial;

    Maria Conchita Alonso and her family fled Castro’s Cuba in 1962, where she was born, and she grew up in Venezuela. Later, she publicly opposed Hugo Chavez’ destruction of the economy of that country. So she’s fairly conservative in her political leanings, mainly because of her experiences in life, you know, like most conservatives. It shouldn’t be that big of a surprise that she’d support conservative candidates, but apparently it was;

    The actress was to perform next month at the Brava Theater Center in San Francisco’s Mission District in a Spanish-language version of “The Vagina Monologues,” scheduled for a run from February 14th through 17th. The show is being produced by none other than Eliana Lopez, wife of San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.

    “We really cannot have her in the show, unfortunately,” Lopez told KPIX 5. She said Alonso abruptly resigned from the cast on Friday, given the backlash on the immigration issue.

    “Of course she has the right to say whatever she wants. But we’re in the middle of the Mission. Doing what she is doing is against what we believe,” Lopez said.

    Apparently, she needs to get her ass back on the plantation if she wants to work. I also saw the link to this story on Nick Searcy’s Facebook page. Nick Searcy is another conservative in Hollywood who gets shit for not being a liberal (he plays the chief of a US Marshall’s Office in “Justified”).

    Added: In this interview with El Gordo y La Flacca, a show on Spanish-language channel Univision, Maria says that the reason that she supports Donnelly is that he isn’t “anti-immigration”, he’s “anti-illegal immigration”, that he himself is married to a Philippine woman and his own kids are married to Mexicans. The distinction is that Maria and Donnelly oppose those who break the law to get into the country, however, the Latino community doesn’t make that distinction.

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  • Weinstein/Streep to take on NRA

    Old Trooper sends us a link from the Washington Times in regards to a Howard Stern interview with Harvey Weinstein who says that he’s going to make a movie that would make National Rifle Association’s 5 million members “wish they weren’t alive”.

    Mr. Weinstein then revealed his secret project about the gun rights group. “I shouldn’t say this, but I’ll tell it to you, Howard,” he said. “I’m going to make a movie with Meryl Streep, and we’re going to take this head-on. And they’re going to wish they weren’t alive after I’m done with them.”

    The shock jock asked whether the film was going to be a documentary. Mr. Weinstein said no, that it would be a “big movie like a ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.’”

    The movie mogul said his vision was to scare people away from firearms. He foresees moviegoers to leave thinking, “Gun stocks — I don’t want to be involved in that stuff. It’s going to be like crash and burn.”

    Yeah, I’m worried. Weinstein obviously thinks that Hollywood has much more influence over the American culture than it actually does. I’m pretty sure that movie goers will stay away in droves if they think that they’re going to be preached to on their own dime. The only people who will go are the minority of Americans who don’t own guns anyway. So, basically, they’ll be preaching to the choir. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Streep movie, and this probably won’t tempt me to break that streak. I just looked at Weinstein’s Filmography and I’ve only seen three of his movies – Halloween, Sin City and Clerks II, so….

  • Wahlberg vs. Cruise

    Whether you want to believe that Tom Cruise hinted that his job is like being stationed in Afghanistan or not, Mark Wahlberg believes that’s what he was saying. Adam and Tman sent us links to what Wahlberg told the TMZ audience. Here’s the video and because it’s Mark Wahlberg and this is TAH there’s a LANGUAGE WARNING;

    He continued;

    I love Marcus [Luttrell] for what he’s done and I’m a very lucky guy to do what I do and I’m proud to have been part of it, but it’s just so much bigger than what I do. I love Pete [Berg] for what he did and how committed he was,” he said. “He would never let any one of us forget about what was important in the course of making the movie and whether it was Marcus or the other SEAL guys, if they saw something that didn’t ring true, I don’t care if it was going to be the biggest stunt sequence in the movie, they would cut, call bullsh-t, and grab all of us by the f-cking neck and say ‘no do it this way, and do it right and make it real’ and if you don’t it’s a problem. I was really proud to be a part of that.”

    Wahlberg finished by saying, simply: “I’m sorry for losing my sh-t. Don’t ask any more questions tonight.”