wac...@AOL.com wrote:
Fun with Dick and Jane. Better than I thought it would be. Very funny
in parts...my kids really liked it.
Susan
http://susansspa.blogspot.com/
http://www.mydd.com/
The Hollywood Mythspiracy
by Matt Stoller
This is a guestpost. One of our underused media assets is Hollywood.
I asked my brother Nick, who cowrote 'Fun with Dick and Jane', to
chime in. I just saw it, and it's a very good smart film with a
strongly liberal narrative.
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In the end, there is no intersection between Hollywood and the
Democratic Party (or none that I have noticed besides that of
fundraising). This is a missed opportunity of gargantuan proportions.
There are hundreds of writers and actors and directors who are angry
and who want to do something besides give money. We are expert message
machines offering our (generally overpriced) services for free and the
Democratic Party does not use us. We create villains and good guys, we
write America's jokes, we create the narrative of America, the lines
that are repeated by boys and girls, men and women, over lunch and the
water cooler and we have been left completely unconsulted.
typical. if the dem party hasn't taken full advantage of hollywood's
talents by now, it never will. shocking, really.
maybe nick should get permanent space on mydd or kos or moveon or
huffpost or anyplace where hollywood types can comfortably congregate
on any subject they care for. let them run it anyway they want. let
them build a hollywood political community that can rattle washington
with the click of a mouse.
don't just talk about it, do it, and do it now. worry about the
details later.