“Yes, you’re entitled to your uninformed opinion”
March 29, 2003
“Since Hollywood liked "The Pianist" so much, and since many actors are so outspoken about current historical events, I would like to give Susan Sarandon, Julianne Moore, Martin Sheen and the other anti-war stars a history quiz. I want to ask them what they know about the Treaty of Versailles, the appeasement conference at Munich and the structure of the German police state as it compares to Saddam Hussein's tyrannical rule of Iraq.
Also, I want to discuss Saddam's human rights record with Richard Gere, who for years has been chanting with the Dalai Lama about freeing Tibet. Gere is right about Tibet: The people there are being spiritually crushed by the totalitarian Chinese. Chanting may not be the most effective way to change that. But then again, Gere lives in Los Angeles.
If the Hollywood crowd could pass my quiz and answer my rather boorish questions, I'd apologize and listen intently as they told me that chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix should have had more time to find anthrax in an uncooperative country the size of California. I would sit enraptured as Sean Penn explained the benefits of living under Saddam, Uday and Qusay Hussein. I would pin the dove on Meryl Streep's gown as she regaled me with her vision of peace and understanding in the age of Al Qaeda.
But most anti-war stars are not big on complicated history questions. It is easier to flash peace signs to like-minded compatriots at award programs, then retire to eat lavish dinners paid for by fawning sycophants.”
The most recent award show, which nobody watched save the media, included a few actors that felt so inclined to voice their political opinion. This irritates me to no end. First, they are at a function that has only one purpose – to make their heads even bigger than they already are. Second, the people that watch these shows worship the “stars” every step and what ever spews out of their mouths is never accounted for. Just because you can read a script and act out a scene, doesn’t mean that you are brilliant. Your job, if you’re an actor, is to sell the film that you are in. It is no different than any other job, it is just glamorized. If you are an actor, you are pointed at and asked for autographs and paid sick amounts of money, but you are just as stupid and uninformed as the next guy. In fact, you tend to be even more ignorant because of your status. You start to feel that the things that you do are simply brilliant and are soon to be the status quo. Come to think of it, your excrement starts to have the fragrance of roses. I will leave you with a common quote from a few movies – “opinions are like assholes: everybody’s got one”. You just read mine.
posted by Tera @ 12:09 PM
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