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MONDAY HOTREAD: TAKING ON THE HOLLYWOOD LEFT

By Charlie Sykes

Check this out... one local boy (Stephen Hayes) writes about another, David Zucker, and his subversive campaign to bring some balance to Hollywood. The movie sounds good.....

 

The set jumps to life. Two young men--both terrorists--enter the station. They are surprised to see a security checkpoint manned by two NYPD officers. "I'll need to see your bag, please," says one of the officers. The lead terrorist glances nervously at his friend and swings his backpack down from his shoulder to present it to the cops. Just as the officer pulls on the zipper, however, a small army of ACLU lawyers marches up to the policemen with a stop-search order. The cops look at each other and shrug their shoulders. "This says we can't search their bags."

The young men are relieved. They smile fiendishly as they walk toward the crowded platform. As the lead terrorist once again slips the backpack over his shoulder, he mutters his appreciation.

"Thank Allah for the ACLU."

Zucker's latest movie, An American Carol, is unlike anything that has ever come out of Hollywood. It is a frontal attack on the excesses of the American left from several prominent members of a growing class of Hollywood conservatives. Until now, conservatives in Hollywood have always been too few and too worried about a backlash to do anything serious to challenge the left-wing status quo.

David Zucker believes we are in a "new McCarthy era." Time magazine film writer Richard Corliss recently joked that conservative films are "almost illegal in Hollywood." Tom O'Malley, president of Vivendi Entertainment, though, dismisses claims that Hollywood is hostile to conservative ideas and suggests that conservatives simply haven't been as interested in making movies. "How come there aren't more socialists on Wall Street?"

Tuesday, Aug 12 at 1:37 PM Kristin wrote ...

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking. David Zucker seems to be having an irrelevancy crisis. He says: "And I'm scared to death of Obama. If I didn't do something about it I would feel--My kids would ask: 'What did you do in the war Daddy?'" "I donated my career to stop this s--." Uh, David's career was over 20 years ago. Everything after the original Naked Gun sucked. Good luck. I hope he's written something funny. The extreme left and right deserve mockery.

Tuesday, Aug 5 at 1:37 AM Steverino wrote ...

Who owns Hollywood? Multi-national mega media giants. Who runs these corporations? Wealthy persons of the Judaic church who support Bush, Cheney and Israel. You folks worship money, Bush and Israel, why are you having a problem with Hollywood? It's a Neocon reflection. Your big-money masters have always laughed at your morals and ethics. Those are for you poor people and people with small, not big businesses. Just ask Charlie, when he's not selling foreign cars!

Tuesday, Aug 5 at 1:30 AM Steverino wrote ...

Isn't there enough patriotic blood and gore onscreen for you? If not, please get on a plane and go get shot-up in Iraq, Afghanistan or anywhere else you want to try to introduce Bush-Amerikka at the point of a gun. It's your job. You can't afford to hire it out any longer. Thousands of evil radical people are everywhere, waiting to rape your children and cut your head off. You must go see IRON MAN, a hundred times, so you'll know how to deal with "terrorists."

Monday, Aug 4 at 8:39 PM ijeff wrote ...

Hopefully they will get the type of widespread distribution "The Passion of Christ" got. Ben Stein's film being a documentary might not have been able to tap into that type of network. Normally, documentaries don't cost that much to make and their success isn't dependent on mass distribution.

Monday, Aug 4 at 7:26 PM steve wrote ...

alas, are the zuckers now going to join the ranks of formerly funny people such as stein and dennis miller? looks like i picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue!

Monday, Aug 4 at 2:11 PM Bob Z wrote ...

But will this film be subject to only being viewed in "select" theaters? Like Ben Stein's film? The conservatives can make their films, but it seems that they have a hard time selling them to major nation wide theaters.

Monday, Aug 4 at 2:07 PM Amy P. wrote ...

Yep. This one's on my "Must See" list. And I'll be taking my liberal, Obama-worshipping friends, too.

Monday, Aug 4 at 10:42 AM Anonymous wrote ...

No socialists on Wall Street? Seriously? What about the hand out whores on Wall Street looking for taxpayers to solve every little problem any billion or trillion dollar company falls into over the past 6-12 months?

Monday, Aug 4 at 10:40 AM Mike wrote ...

I don't go to many movies, but this is one I'm defintely going to go see.

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