Creeping Sharia:
Roland Emmerich has admitted that he feared a fatwa would be placed on him if he filmed a scrapped scene for 2012.
The filmmaker is well known for decimating famed landmarks on movies including The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day. He stated that while he decided to destroy the Christ the Redeemer statue in [...]
NEW YORK (AP) - Sting isn’t a religious man, but he says President Barack Obama might be a divine answer to the world’s problems.
“In many ways, he’s sent from God,” he joked in an interview, “because the world’s a mess.”
But Sting is serious in his belief that Obama is the best leader to navigate the [...]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez said he met privately with actor Sean Penn on Wednesday, and that the Oscar-winning celebrity may film a movie in Venezuela.
Penn may shoot a film based on a novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, which is set largely in the jungle along Venezuela’s southern Orinoco river, Chavez said. [...]
Judy Lin, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger typically attaches a message to bills he signs or vetoes telling lawmakers why he took the action.
A Democratic assemblyman who heckled the governor during a recent event in San Francisco actually received two messages: the veto letter itself and a not-so-subtle rebuke creatively hidden [...]
By JOHN D. STOLL
FLINT, Mich. — Michael Moore can dish it out. But can he take it?
The filmmaker is enjoying modest success with his most recent movie, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” employing his trademark guerrilla documentary tactics to take on Wall Street and Capitol Hill. It follows films that cut a similarly sharp edge, including [...]
Big Government:
James O’Keefe is an investigative journalist and filmmaker. His credits include the “Bailout Prize Patrol” produced for Right.Org in 2009. He also directed, scripted, produced and acted in a series of undercover videos showcasing racism and statutory rape at Planned Parenthood in 2007 and 2008.
Before that he served as Publications Coordinator at the Leadership [...]
Fox News:
The two independent filmmakers who posed as a pimp and a prostitute and received advice from ACORN employees in five cities on how to skirt tax and immigration laws claim the community organizer group lied when it said the pair were shown the door without receiving assistance from staffers in its Philadelphia office.
James [...]
Newsday:
No, bigbigbigbig news.
Sarah Palin and Oprah Winfrey are meeting.
Or. I should say, Sarah’s doing “Oprah.”
Just announced. The details:
“In a world exclusive, Oprah Winfrey will interview former Alaska
governor Sarah Palin for an episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” to air Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Winfrey and Palin will [...]
Enter ACTIVISTS
You’ll be hard-pressed to think of many better videos you’ve seen on YouTube:
“her book The Fourth Instinct, handsomely blurbled by Deepak Chopra, describing “the dead ends we are led down when we are obsessed by the pursuit of success, wealth, and recognition.”
Parcbench:
USA TIME 100This writer (very slightly) knew Arianna Huffington a long time ago when she was … a Newt Gingrich Acolyte. Then Newt’s political star [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Residents of a Southern California apartment complex say they saw a lifeless body slumped on a neighbor’s patio, but didn’t call police because they thought it was part of a Halloween display.
Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday.
Cameraman Austin Raishbrook, owner of RMG News, told the Los Angeles Times [...]
By DANIEL LIBIT
Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer couldn’t get Hollywood interested in his conservative answer to Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth,” so he’s trying to promote it a different way — by getting tea party protesters to turn out for thousands of screenings across the country Sunday night.
McAleer is billing the multicity premiere of “Not Evil Just [...]
