File Under: "Doesn't Anyone in Hollywood Know How to Say 'No Comment'?"
In other news...
"US filmmaker Woody Allen... says it will be no laughing matter if Barack Obama fails to win the race for the White House.
" 'It would be a DISGRACE and A HUMILIATION if Barack Obama does not win... It would be a VERY, VERY TERRIBLE THING for the United States IN MANY, MANY WAYS,' he said.
Democratic hopeful Obama, Allen said, is 'so much better' than Republican rival John McCain, and 'represents a huge step upward from (the) INCOMPETENCE AND MISJUDGEMENT' of the Bush administration."
[emphasis in caps mine — Ed.]
Mr. Allen then returned home to his "wife" of many years, and ex-step-daughter, Soon-Yi Previn...
don't these people know what they and their compatriots do for a living? It's called make-believe.
I'm not saying only fools would support Obama... I have strong feelings, yes, but I don't think that an Obama-nation is the End of Days like these guys do.
So Woody joins the well-reasoned opines of Lohan, Pam Anderson and Streisand. Nice get, that. In my perusal of Damon's comments about Palin, I see him as being misconstrued, and while tactless in his wording, he is justified in wanting to know more.
I often squirm in indignant sympathy with prominent politicians when celebrities launch themselves with unexpected vigour upon their coat-tails. Often, as in the case of Anderson, Lohan and Allen, their zeitgeist is directly conflicting with the values the politician in question purports to uphold. The glamorous two, and their public persona of airbrushed evanescence, can be brushed aside as a minor irritation, but Woody may inflict a deeper sting. The man is creepy. He was always deeply creepy, even before Soon Yi, (which forever rendered him the Great Poohbah of Wretched and Decrepit Creeposity.)
Celebrities diminish themselves too, in my experience, by loudly championing political heroes. It seems a bit like bringing out an embarrassing cover version of a hit, whilst the original is still flying high in the charts.
I've been wondering idly, nevertheless, if Sarah Palin might be a distant cousin of the cool and quirky Michael Palin. Nice bit of potential resonance there.
"an embarrassing cover version of a hit" -- LOL. Me like.
Yes; I have idly wondered about the Palin / Palin connection. We supporters of her would have this thing sewn up if we could harness the Monty Python block.