A conservative chorus rang out throughout the land. “Say it Ain’t So, Mel!” was the right thinker’s reaction when the story broke that
Moore probably hopes to fill movie screens with a bunch of Bush-bashing baloney just in time for the presidential campaign of 2004.
But now, according to Variety, word has it that Gibson’s pulled the plug on Icon’s financial involvement with the pseudo-documentary maker’s latest project.
So, where does a lefty go to get money? The same places liberal Democrat candidates do – to
Miramax will supposedly give Moore “bridge” financing and use a French firm, The Wild Bunch, for distribution.
Rumors are flying about why Mel booted Moore out the door. Could be that he got some helpful tips from LCR readers via e-mails and letters.
The Left Coast Report thinks that Mel’s working with Moore would’ve been the biggest mismatch since “60 Minutes” paired up Clinton and Dole.
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Miller had been persuaded to perform the song with some school friends during the festivities. All of a sudden a local pastor, Bobby Massey, interrupted and announced, “I think it would be better if we got someone who knows how to sing it.”
Out of the crowd stepped Toby Keith. Keith went on stage and performed the tune with Miller as the soldier tried to hold back tears of joy.
Afterward, Keith gave Miller the guitar he had played during the performance.
Meanwhile, members of
The veteran rockers donated 200 tickets to local radio station QFM96. The tickets were given away to those who are currently serving, or who have already served, in any branch of the U.S. armed forces.
The Left Coast Report comments that it’s sure nice to hear Mac music being used for something other than the theme song of the ex-loather-in-chief.
As NewsMax previously reported,
“Don't believe everything you read, especially in the Cuban press,” Spielberg's office wrote to NewsMax.
The quote was first reported by the Deutsche Presse-Agentur back in November 2002. The account stated that Spielberg had made the statement at a press conference.
The Spielberg quote has appeared in numerous publications since then, including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, the Boston Globe, the Scotsman, the Washington Monthly and the Providence Journal-Bulletin. It was also discussed extensively on TV on shows like CNN’s “Crossfire,” Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” and MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country.”
Like a lot of other national talk show hosts, I myself have mentioned the quote plenty of times on my own radio show. For the Spielberg folks to question the validity of the reporting is rather interesting, in light of the recent Stalin-style crackdown on dissidents by Castro.
The note to NewsMax didn’t say anything about the report that, while standing in front of a Cuban movie theater, Spielberg told the press, “I feel just like at home here.”
The Left Coast Report suggests that if the Castro-controlled press intentionally fabricated words and attributed them to Spielberg, the director ought to publicly condemn the dictator. Then he should make a film exposing Castro’s many offenses. Now that would be a dream work.
It’s hard to keep track of the religious adventures of
Back in 1992 on “Saturday Night Live,” the singer tore up a photo of the pope. As she ripped away, she made it a point to repeatedly scream out the phrase “Fight the Real Enemy!” She has since apologized for the incident.
O’Connor further upset some Christians with her portrayal of the Virgin Mary in the 1997 film “The Butcher Boy.”
But oddly enough, in 1999, after spending six weeks under the tutelage of a Tridentine bishop, O'Connor was ordained as a female priest for the Latin Tridentine Church, a group that split off from the Roman Catholic Church.
The tuneful cleric started her priestly duties under the name Mother Bernadette Mary.
Last January, an article posted on her Web site indicated that although she considers herself both a Catholic and a priest, her ordination was “a Rastafarian act.”
Now, in a letter published in the Dublin Evening Herald, the singer has announced that she will give up the world of pop and become a religious teacher. Over the next 10 years she will study theology in order to be able to teach. And her students will supposedly be kids.
“I want to train to become a religion teacher of primary school children,” O’Connor writes in the letter.
When portraying Sinatra on SNL, the late Phil Hartman referred to her as “the bald chick.” But has the famously hairless one really turned over a new leaf?
The Left Coast Report cautions, if the kids in her classes come home with shredded papal pics and shaved heads, we’ll know it’s the same ol’ Sinead.
What the heck’s happened to
As reports come out that, during the war, the French supplied intelligence on our weapons and tactics to Saddam, and they also provided passports for officials to escape at the end of the war, Madonna has decided to show appreciation to Chirac and company.
During a private performance at a restaurant in Paris, the singer thanked the French for opposing the conflict in Iraq and told the audience, “Here in France I feel at home.”
The concert was broadcast live over the Internet and to nine European countries as well.
The Left Coast Report wonders if, because of her recent film troubles, Madonna’s just trying to make sure her movies will still make the Jerry Lewis Film Festival.
In a recent appearance on “Hardball With Chris Matthews,”
Maher acknowledged, “I was wrong about the war itself because I predicted the war would be a lot bloodier.”
The comic also countered the left’s focus on civilian casualties, saying, “I would wager that the number of civilians that were killed [in] a typical week under Saddam Hussein was probably more than we killed during the weeks we were at war there.”
Finally, Maher decided to stop being an apologist for the faithless French. “I defended the French for a while because I said they at least stood up to the Bush administration, which is more than the Democrats ever did. But when the war ended and they would not go for lifting the sanctions, I thought, you know what? Maybe there is something to this thing with the French being not exactly playing cricket.”
The Left Coast Report has noticed that Maher’s been moving further and further left since going to HBO. Maybe his “Hardball” statements mean there’s hope for his political soul.
On MSNBC’s “Buchanan & Press,” Asner feebly defended
Lou Grant’s alter ego claimed that those who were recently put to death by Castro had a “very fair” trial.
When
Asner was later asked how Hollywood could be in love with such a cruel despot. That’s when he proved that his senselessness knows no bounds.
He actually found a way to blame the U.S. for Castro’s authoritarian communism, saying, “The United States could not tolerate a little country, a little Hispanic country 90 miles off the United States declaring its independence of the United States so immediately embargoes, everything began to take place, forcing him into the sphere of Soviet influence.”
The Left Coast Report says it sounds as if Mr. Ed may be smoking something other than Cuban cigars.
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