People are always coming here looking for celebrities like Halle Berry wearing Barack Obama T-Shirts. I can't figure this out for the life of me. Are people looking for celebrity endorsements of Barack Obama? Or do people just want to wear the T-Shirt that a celebrity is wearing to show their personal Barack Obama support? As in, kill to birds with one stone by simultaneously being fashionable and political. I'm stumped.
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I love prescription drugs. There's really nothing better than a few Vicodin, a pack of cigarettes and a diet coke on a sunny day. Here, Travolta blames school shootings on pharmaceuticals. Never mind shitty parents. Let's blame Merck and Pfizer. I've been on Prozac for years and I'm far too busy drooling on myself to ever shoot up a school.
Travolta Echoes Cruise on PsychiatryKeep Reading at breitbart.com
NEW YORK (AP) - John Travolta says his thinking is in line with fellow Scientologist Tom Cruise, who has publicly defended the religion's stance against psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry.
Cruise, during a famously heated debate on NBC's "Today" show in 2005, criticized Brooke Shields for taking anti-depression drugs and berated host Matt Lauer for suggesting that psychiatric treatment might help some patients.
"I don't disagree with anything Tom says," Travolta says in the July issue of W magazine, on newsstands Friday. "How would I have presented it? Maybe differently than how he did, but it doesn't matter. I still think that if you analyze most of the school shootings, it is not gun control. It is (psychotropic) drugs at the bottom of it."
GM, one of the planet's worst greenhouse offenders has their Chevy brand name plastered all over the MSN Live Earth website.
Angelina Jolie has banned Fox News from a press conference about her most recent movie, A MIGHTY HEART. Jolie plays the wife to Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Read why she banned Fox here.
The biggest director in the world has signed on to endorse Hillary Clinton for President. (Obama's the bridesmaid and Edwards is the ring bearer.)
Read more about Hillary's announcement HERE. And for any non-cinephiles out there, Spielberg's directing credits include:
Indiana Jones 4 (upcoming)
Munich
War of the Worlds
Saving Private Ryan
Jurassic Park
Schindler's List
E.T.
Indiana Jones 1,2,3
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jaws
Will this entertainment magnate shift the winds of candidate alignment? Can this influence others in Steven's Dreamworks entourage?
Also...those of you that discount the influence of people in the entertainment field should cross reference these movies (and the dozen or so others that he's done) with your childhood... and recognize!
Al Gore Lobbied Band to Play Live EarthKeep reading at myway.com
By ERIK SCHELZIG
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - If you saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers whispering to Al Gore when they accepted their Grammy Award for best rock album in February, that's the moment they committed to playing Live Earth.
Gore said he met with band members for more than an hour before this year's televised awards show, trying to persuade them to perform at one of the concerts.
While receptive to the idea, they weren't sure they could fit the July 7 concert into their schedule, Gore said Friday.
"I was pushing and pushing them that no matter how difficult it was, that it was important," he said.
The former vice president, who lost the 2000 presidential election to George Bush despite winning the popular vote, is promoting the Live Earth concerts to raise climate change awareness.
Think about all the cash dropped on Barack Obama for naught. Certainly all will be forgiven by Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton enjoys renewed Hollywood cloutKeep reading at latimes.com
An early infatuation with Obama's candidacy appears to be fading among the ex-first lady's Hollywood supporters.
By Tina Daunt, Times Staff Writer
It's starting to look like Hollywood's infatuation with Sen. Barack Obama was just a flirtation before it settles down with its longtime girlfriend, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Most of Hollywood may lean Democratic, but the direction of that inclination can be as fickle as the Santa Anas. During the last presidential election, some people changed their mind five times before they settled on Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.).
And, as it is with everything in this world of glitz, candidates — like celebrities — benefit from buzz.
So here's the buzz these days: Clinton's presidential bid has begun to regain momentum over Obama's in the entertainment industry.
In fact, it's become so strong that Steven Spielberg, once considered a solid supporter of Illinois Democrat Obama, is now believed to be leaning in favor of Clinton, according to longtime industry politicos. (Spielberg's political spokesman, Andy Spahn, was coy this week when asked about Spielberg's political thinking. "We have nothing to announce," Spahn said, but stay tuned.)
But behind the scenes, the signs are pretty clear. Last week, Clinton cruised through town raising a cool $1.1 million in one day. At a celebrity-studded reception at News Corp. President Peter Chernin's house — an event co-hosted by Spielberg and television financier Haim Saban — Clinton brought in $850,000. (Chernin's boss, Rupert Murdoch, currently bidding to take over the Wall Street Journal, is a political conservative who sometimes gives to Democratic candidates.) Even super-agent Ari Emanuel, who is one of Obama's top industry supporters, wrote a check to Clinton.
And because I'm a whore, let's take a look at Paris Hilton's mug shot. Why is this relevant? Just on the off chance that she comes out of jail the next Malcolm X. You know, a voice for the celebutard minority.
Here's an interesting one from the UK Times. Taking symbolism to a new level, apparently Al Gore wanted to stage a moment of electrical silence during the Live Earth concert. But authorities shot down the idea saying that the flux caused by everyone turning everything back on all at once could be enough to cause electrical malfunctions, possible effecting hospitals. Excerpt:
Britain pulls plug on Al’s big climate change show
Safety fears stop national switch-off
Maurice Chittenden
IT WAS intended to be the symbolic gesture at a global series of rock concerts next month to alert people to climate change. Al Gore, the former US presidential candidate turned climate doomsayer, had wanted a massive switch-off of lights by television audiences, but the National Grid has vetoed the idea.
The inconvenient truth, it says, is that the power surge when people switched their lights back on could cause disruptions in supply and even endanger hospital patients on life support machines.
Live Earth will be a series of concerts, modelled on Live Aid and and Live 8, aimed at raising awareness about the threat from global warming.
As many as 12 concerts across seven continents featuring the likes of Madonna and Genesis and 100 other acts are planned over 24 hours, including one at a research station in Antarctica.
The organisers have so far struggled to find a clear-cut way of conveying their main message. Even rock performers have criticised the concept.
Roger Daltrey, of the Who, said another concert would simply waste fuel; Bob Geldof, who helped to organise Live Aid and Live 8, said people were already aware of the greenhouse effect; while Matt Bellamy, front man of the rock band Muse, labelled it “private jets for climate change”.
Hollywood has emptied their pockets for a second time. Round one for Barack Obama, now round two for Hillary Clinton at Brett Ratner's home in Beverly Hills. Excerpt from Variety:
Hillary Clinton Draws A Crowd
Campaign trail returns to Hollywood.
By TED JOHNSON
Hillary Clinton drew a mix of politicos and paparazzi in a series of events through Hollywood circles, showing continuing strength as she competes aggressively with Barack Obama and John Edwards for entertainment industry support.
At the same time she was raising money on Wednesday night, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was doing the same at a fund-raiser at the Beverly Hilton that featured comedian Dennis Miller.
With Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joining her, Clinton raised $850,000 at an event at the home of News Corp. prexy Peter Chernin, and another $250,000 at the home of Brett Ratner, according to sources.
The latter fund-raiser was the media highlight of this visit. With a minimum ticket price of $250, Ratner's event was aimed at "young Hollywood," but the crowd would more accurately be described as "young-ish," as it drew a mix of people in their 20s, 30s and 40s, hardly the hardcore tabloid-bred nightclub crowd of the Sunset Boulevard. Nevertheless, paparazzi was in full force as web site TMZ.com captured donors as they crossed Benedict Canyon Road to Ratner's home, called Hilhaven. Inside, it was a bit more staid than when Ratner allowed "Entourage" to shoot a scene in which bikini clad women wandered around his property, a riff on his image as the consummate party host. He did, however, open up his basement disco, installed when Allan Carr lived there in the 1970s.
Stars such as Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart, Will.I.Am, Jeremy Piven, Angie Banicki, Michelle Trachtenberg, Brent Bolthouse and Chris Klein mixed with Steve Bing, James Toback, Quincy Jones, Brian Grazer, Kevin Smith, Holly Wiersma, Pauly Shore, California State Assemblyman Mike Feuer and political and fund-raising consultant Noah Mamet, among others. New NBC chief Ben Silverman also was there, often consumed with pressing business, and eying and typing into his Blackberry. Absent were any gift bags -- people asked -- as the campaign forbids such gifts at the risk of violating finance laws.
Clinton met one on one with VIP paying guests inside the home, with Ratner insisting that guests take off their shoes to protect the hardwood floors.
