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McCain Scores Crucial Endorsement From One Half of ‘The Cutting Edge’
8:15AM Kyle Buchanan | On John McCain’s last fundraiser jaunt through Hollywood, he attracted a motley crew of the men and women who make up the industry’s smallest club: Republicans. Hollywood titans like Wilford Brimley, Craig T. Nelson, and Jon Cryer (who was just gathering information!) all turned out to support the candidate who thinks “celebrity” is a dirty word and has the endorsement roster to prove it. So what glittering surprises did McCain have up his sleeve for last night’s McCain/Palin fundraiser across the street from CAA? Let’s take a look!
Amateur Pundits Roseanne Barr and Jon Voight Raise the Family-Smearing Stakes
9:00AM STV | Like most other all-night diners in the vicinity, Defamer’s Washington Bureau is positively churning with activity a mere 11 weeks from Election Day. Alas, with so many other outlets having beat us to the punch regarding, say, Barack Obama’s fund-raising prowess, we’re left to cover an arguably more urgent and immediate controversy affecting liberal firebrand Roseanne Barr and her outspoken conservative archrival Jon Voight. And while it seemed like fun from a distance when the comedienne first lobbed mud last Friday, a closer look today has us dodging sallies in every direction. More »
Where Do We Even Begin With This Trailer For ‘An American Carol’?
6:00AM Defamer Hollywood | We have learned a great many things during this election year, but chief among them is that Republicans hate Hollywood (though not really). In fact, their vendetta against Tinseltown is so strong that they have now seized the means of production, which would at least explain the trailer for the upcoming right-wing comedy An American Carol — that is, if anything could explain An American Carol. A spoof of The Christmas Carol from Republican director David Zucker, it’s the story of a Michael Moore-resembling filmmaker who is shown the error of his ways by a cast made up of Hollywood’s biggest Republicans. If that description sounds a little dry, try these details on for size: the Moore stand-in comes to his senses when he is taught to kill members of the ACLU, and George Washington is played by Jon Voight. A closer look at the insanity, after the jump: More »
Bill O’Reilly Devours Conscience-Stricken Movie Blogger
10:10AM STV | Jon Voight’s recent toe-dip into the murky pool of political commentary attracted more than a few piranhas, the hungriest of whom may have been Hollywood Elsewhere’s Jeffrey Wells. And after a July 29 blog item suggested freezing Voight’s career as payback for his public condemnation of Barack Obama (”If I were a producer and I had to make a casting decision about hiring Voight or some older actor who hadn’t pissed me off with an idiotic Washington Times op-ed piece, I might very well say to myself, ‘Voight? Let him eat cake’”), Bill O’Reilly came a-calling last night with a theory about a new Hollywood blacklist against conservatives. While we (and Wells himself, apparently) had hoped for a more bloodthirsty offensive from Wells, we’re endlessly engrossed by his session on Dr. O’Reilly’s couch, elucidating the vengeful feelings inherent to angry industry bloggers everywhere. Seriously, Bill, this is nothing — wait until Oscar season. [Fox News] More »
Jon Voight Heightens Election-Year Stakes With Patriotic ‘Screw Obama’ Op-Ed
5:20AM Seth | Not since Donald Sutherland unleashed a spittle-flecked torrent of anti-Hillarian propaganda in The Huffington Post—denouncing the candidate’s “wretched illegitimacy,” as if she had ruined Canadian Thanksgiving by pulling off a rubber Kiefer mask to reveal her cackling identity beneath—have we been so shaken by a celebrity-penned attack on a Democratic candidate: National Treasure: Book of Secrets star/estranged grandfather Jon Voight has dared to zig when the Obama-loving free world zags in the op-ed pages of the Washington Times: More »
