Via Pam Meister at Big Hollywood comes word that the fetching Megan Fox is not all that happy that her first legitimate starring role in Jennifer's Body bombed at the box office.
Who's to blame? The rubes in Middle America, for whom the girl raised in Tennessee has an enduring hate, Jim Lakely notes.
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For daring to be part of a group bidding for the NFL's St. Louis Rams, Rush Limbaugh was viciously slandered and libeled as a racist. For days. Practically no one in the dominant media culture rose to Rush's defense—just weeks after many prominent figures defended pedophile fugitive director Roman Polanski. And there have been few if any public apologies from those who peddled the false, absurd, and grotesque claim that Rush pined for the days of slavery and wanted to give Martin Luther King's assassin a posthumous Medal of Honor.
But in today's culture, being a liberal means never having to say you're sorry, Jim Lakely writes.
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Unlike fellow comedian Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Rock has no hesitation in calling what Roman Polanski did evil and wrong. No distinction between "rape" and "rape-rape" for him.
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Our thanks go out to Robert Champ for referring us to this item.
(Updated 10/01 12:29 EDT)
In all the controversy over what to do about fugitive film director Roman Polanski, currently in Switzerland awaiting possible extradition to the United States to face a thirty-year-old rape charge in California, the one moment that stands out for me is the reaction of French filmmaker Luc Besson, as quoted in the London Daily Telegraph:
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The late Patrick Swayze wasn't a great actor, but he was a dude, which is more important and is what makes his best films well worth watching. Andrew Klavan fondly remembers Swayze at Klavan on the Culture.
My Swayze recommendations: Red Dawn, Road House, Point Break, Next of Kin, Uncommon Valor, North and South, Donnie Darko, City of Joy.One to avoid: To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar. (They must have paid him a fortune to do this drag-queen film. I certainly hope so.)
--S. T. Karnick
After my highly critical review of the premiere episode of The Jay Leno Show, I think it's important to acknowledge that Leno has typically been a bastion of decency and fairness when compared with truly odious comedy talk-show hosts such as David Letterman and Bill Maher. For a good article on Leno's comic persona, see John Nolte's appreciation of Leno at Big Hollywood.
--S. T. Karnick
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Actor Karl Malden, who died today at age 97, was a fine performer who stood for good principles and conveyed a sense of moral responsibility in his performances, S. T. Karnick writes.
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Michael Jackson's life was a tragedy, but not a particularly edifying one, S. T. Karnick writes.
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