Comments on: Can actors take the heat?

By: bpjam

bpjam — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:53:20 +0000

Liberals are only as far out as they are in hollywood because they never spend any time having to actually defend their positions, statements or ideals out there in the arena of ideas. They don’t debate people who disagree with them and they only appear to be public pronouncements in places where they will never be challenged.

It’s an echo chamber. If they had to face opposition, their ideas would be less nutty and they would make less retarded like ‘9/11 was an inside job’.

By: Jim Lakely

Jim Lakely — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:46:15 +0000

Good one, Franco. A great question, cleverly crafted.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:58:10 +0000

Actors spend their entire lives in the study of emotion. Their lives revolve around tapping into their feelings, not their intellect, and not logic. They feel things about issues often without thinking them through. They also envelop themselves in drama, which is why the so often use such dramatic hyperbole when they talk politics. Actors also spend their lives in pursuit of being liked and popular, which explains why so many (though not all) wrap themselves in the popular liberalism of their peers and never question those beliefs.

By: Heidi Smith

Heidi Smith — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:54:35 +0000

I have so many on my “do not want to watch” list it’s not even funny. Even ones I used to like, like Tom Hanks… Sad really, like someone else said, STFU.. Or Shut Up and ACT..

By: Franco

Franco — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:11:22 +0000

One question I think would be pertinent for the people who worked on this film; How would Che want to you guys to split the profits?

By: cftoto

cftoto — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:54:11 +0000

There’s certainly an arrogance there, Holly … but blame also goes to the journalists who egg the actors on. Many times an actor simply wants to talk about his or her project, but then they get an Obama or Bush question and they let their guard down.

By: vertue

vertue — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:53:59 +0000

Remember, actors and actresses are professional liars. That what they’re paid to convincingly do.

By: Holly Berry

Holly Berry — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:28:56 +0000

It’s funny to me how a person, whose job is to pretend to be other people, think the rest of us gives a hoot what they are thinking. Just because an actor comes up with a character with some sense does not make it so for the actor.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:58:53 +0000

I just happened to watch he and Cassey Affleck in this movie where they were walking around the desert for two hours. I was working on writing a couple articles so it was a nice quiet background. I can’t remember the name of the movie, but I wouldn’t show my face in public if I had made it. It was ridiculous and that’s probably being too kind.

These guys are so full of themselves it kind of gives me a stomach ache if I think about it too long… but then I just remember “Team America” and feel so much better.

I still like Damon as Bourne, but he should keep his mouth shut.

It makes me think of that famous quote about how it’s better to remain quiet and be thought an idiot than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt.

By: Dagnabbitt

Dagnabbitt — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:12:36 +0000

Where are the editors?! If there is going to be an assumed social contract between the celebrity flacking something and the interviewer encouraging the flacking, then simply state it at the outset: the following “interview” is an advert for the feature, “____”. Otherwise, permit the (few remaining actual) journalist to practice journalism. ANY public figure, but especially these undereducated, over-exposed Hollywood types, should be challenged. Free speech is not equal to free not to be challenged, indeed. And frankly, my eyes may stop glazing over the next celebrity interview if I knew that real news reporting would take place.

~ Dagnabbitt