Conservatives are scared to be themselves in Hollywood, America. Shockingly, the city by the sea, a liberal den of drugs, booze, loose women, Jews, gays and Will Smith, SHUNS YOU if you're Republican.
Why are you doing this to Kelsey Grammer, haters!? Is it because his Republican party famously slashes with glee funding for both the NEA and PBS? Is it because conservative groups like the Parents Television Council do their best to censor the hard work of writers, producers and actors? NO!!!! It's because Republicans are different, and liberals hate anyone different from them.
After the jump, let's listen to some famous conservatives moan about not being invited to join in any of the reindeer games.
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The successful Mideast war drama continues to elude Hollywood producers, who failed at the box office again this weekend with the Ridley Scott-helmed Body of Lies. The ninth contemporary war film in the last two years to be mostly ignored by moviegoers, Lies, the tale of a CIA operative on the hunt for a terrorist in Jordan, was crushed at the box office by lighter fare, specifically the fictional account of a rich dog in Beverly Hills.
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Hey, Meghan McCain, before going on national television and saying things like "No one knows what war is like other than my family—period," here's some stuff you should have considered.
"The UN has estimated that 20,000 civilians have been forced to flee their homes since fighting began in Georgia. The BBC's Gavin Hewitt reports from the frontline near the town of Gori, where Russian planes have been in action. As he reported on the fate of civilians in Georgia, his team came under attack from Russian fire." [Video]
If you're anything like us, then you probably haven't even thought about MC Hammer since you watched his E! True Hollywood Story and found out how the hell he managed to squander his multimillion dollar estate. [Spoiler: It had something to do with the $12 million estate, the leased Boeing 727 and the 200 person entourage on his payroll for approximately $500,000 a month].
In any event, he's back. And it turns out that, while Hammer's lost the parachute pants, he's somehow retained the ability to rap badly.
So, for your afternoon video viewing pleasure, we invite you to enjoy MC Hammer's ineloquent entreaty to end the war in Iraq. Admittedly, the song lacks the panache of "U Can't Touch This" or the joyful earnestness of "Here Comes The Hammer" but we can't say we disagree with its simple, yet annoyingly repetitive message.
Check it out, after the jump.
Do it for nostalgia's sake, and because—as MC would unconvincingly argue—"this is a beat (uh!) u can't touch."
Let us start by saying, we had no idea there was a Time Out Tel Aviv or a Time Out Beirut. But there is. Or, well, in TOB's case, there was. Over time, the editors of these magazines, Ramsay Short (TOB) and Amir Ben-David (TOTA) became close friends, drank vodka on the beach together, and talked of peace between their countries.
Now, as is quite apparent by Anderson Cooper's hot bullet proof vest, there is some shit going on over there, and hope for resolving issues between Isreal and Lebanon is becoming harder to cling to with each passing night of air strikes. Not to get all super-sentimental here, but the letters between these two young journalists, with pride in their countries as well as hope for peace between the citizens of their waring nations and each other, is quite compelling.
Time Out Chicago is currently running the emails online. This is a portion:
This is Ramsay Short, editor of Time Out Beirut, currently under total bombardment by the Israeli military. They have killed our city, and probably killed TOB in their murderous attacks. I am not sure where we can go from here. If it is temporary, we can come back. But if it is not, TOB—like everything else that has been flourishing in this wonderful city, so recently reborn—has been killed.
Dear Ramsay, We were very sad and concerned to get your heartbreaking e-mail. We hope you will be able to not blame us for the brutal bombardment of Beirut, as we don’t blame you personally for the bombardment of the north of Israel and other provocations done by Hezbollah militants.
It is so sad to know that on a personal level we can be friends, have vodka together on the lovely beaches of Cyprus and talk about future cooperation between TOB and Time Out Tel Aviv, but on a “national†level, we are enemies who are ruining each other’s lives, time and time again.
We know it feels like a story New York Times magazine would cream themselves over, but in our very removed and likely diluted opinion, the exchange is worth checking out. If only to make you realize that the war between Glamour and Cosmo or the Post and the Daily News are really, actually, quite insignificant in comparison.
A tale of two cities [Time Out Chicago]
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