Okay, this ticks me off:
James
Woods has been dropped by his talent agent — and he was delivered the
news in an email sent during the Fourth of July holiday.
The
Oscar-nominated actor shared a screenshot of the email with the subject
line “Well…” on his personal Twitter account Thursday.
The
talent agent, Ken Kaplan, said that he’d come to the decision to no
longer represent the outspoken conservative star because he was “feeling
patriotic.”
“It’s
the 4th of July and I’m feeling patriotic,” Kaplan wrote. “I don’t want
to represent you anymore. I mean I can go on a rant but you know what
I’d say.”
I don’t really care what James Woods
politics are or if trashy Amber Tamlyn (I don’t care to learn to spell
her name, she’s a nobody) says mean things about him.
He’s hired to act. He acts very
well. He gave the best performance in WHITE HOUSE DOWN. I could do
without his FAMILY GUY appearances (I think the only thing worse is when
the show does it’s Star Wars episodes). But he is a talented
actor. Yes, he’s a conservative. Many people are. They shouldn’t
have to worry about their career because of their politics. No one
should have to worry. Whether you’re left like me or to the right or
whatever. America is supposed to be about free speech
and liberty. I think the guy who dropped James Woods is an idiot.
James Woods always delivers onscreen.
CASINO? He was great. I wasn’t impressed with everyone in the film
but he was really good. SALVADOR, THE SPECIALIST, JOHN Q, ONCE UPON A
TIME IN AMERICA, CONTACT, THE GENERAL’S DAUGHTER, PLAY IT
TO THE BONE, ANY GIVEN SUNDAY, RIDING IN CARS WITH BOYS . . .
I’m getting real tired of nonsense.
He can act. He’s a great Jane Fonda’s great too. She was
“gray-listed” (her term, she says she wasn’t black-listed). She gave an
amazing performance in A DOLL’S HOUSE that should have resulted in
non-stop offers. Instead, she was gray-listed. And guess what? We
suffered for it. She was just coming into her peak as a dramatic
actress. We were robbed of some of her finest years. Yes, she owned
the late 70s – including in drama – but we still lost
out. And it wasn’t fair to her, a working mother with two children,
not to be employed.
We really need to stop being so damn
judgmental. All of us. Me included. No one should be deprived of
employment because of their politics. Not in America.
Related, why did Scarlett Johansson take a roles as a transgendered character?
She’s already been slammed for her film where she played an anima character. I defended her on that one.
I can’t defend her here. My cousin Marcia made a really strong point awhile back regarding LOVE, SIMON.
So we’re all supposed to be thrilled
by this movie saying it’s okay to be gay? But if it’s really okay to be
gay, why didn’t they hire an out actor to play Simon?
Here’s Marcia:
I didn't have a problem with straight Sean Penn playing Harvey Milk, for example.
But I don't see how we say, "It's okay to be gay!" with a film where the gay character is a straight actor?
And I'm also really bothered by the "It's okay to be gay!"
As a lesbian of a certain age, this film felt like the late 90s.
But I don't see how we say, "It's okay to be gay!" with a film where the gay character is a straight actor?
And I'm also really bothered by the "It's okay to be gay!"
As a lesbian of a certain age, this film felt like the late 90s.
I agree.
And I really think that for people who
are not widely represented in films, it’s time for straight actors to
take a step back and stop grabbing these roles. I don’t mean Erick
McCormick can’t continue to play Will on WILL AND GRACE. I
do mean that if they’re casting a show like that today, they should
cast it with out actors.
When so few trans actors have
opportunities today in film and TV, it is very wrong for Scarlett to
take a trans role. It’s unfair. She shouldn’t have done this.
Going out with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Madeline Albright is responsible for criminal sanctions that killed over 500,000 children in #Iraq. She told “60 minutes” it was “worth the cost.” She considered the #Baath govt to be #fascist. This kind of “#antifascism” is not Progressive.
Mad Maddie Albright is the one who should come with a warning label. Her actions should have resulted in a mass shunning. Instead, she's allowed to pose as a humanitarian and someone worth listening to.
People like Maddie destroy the world and then stand around as though they have done something worthy of applause. Booing is too kind for the likes of Maddie.
Returning to the topic of the drought in Iraq, Philip Issa (AP) reports:
Iraq has banned its farmers from planting summer
crops this year as the country grapples with a crippling water shortage
that shows few signs of abating.
Citing high
temperatures and insufficient rains, Dhafer Abdalla, an adviser to
Iraq’s Ministry of Water Resources, told The Associated Press that the
country has only enough water to irrigate half its farmland this summer.
But
farmers fault the government for failing to modernize how it manages
water and irrigation, and they blame neighboring Turkey for stopping up
the Tigris and Euphrates rivers behind dams it wants to keep building.
A water shortage in the summer? It's been a 118 degrees Fahrenheit day for Iraq today. And they suffer a water shortage.
The water issue is not a new one. So why didn't Hayder al-Abadi do anything over the last four years as prime minister to address the issue? Last February, some were sure that a hard summer would be avoidable due to some heavy rains that had fallen. Now that notion is so outrageous that we'll be kind and not name the non-Iraqi outlets that pimped that lie.
The big lie, of course, is that voting helps Iraq. Over and over, Iraq's prime ministers do nothing. The problems are known. They are identified. Then four years fly by and nothing has been done. Over and over this happens. Starting to grasp why so few bothered to vote last May?
#Iraq's treasured amber rice crop devastated by drought
iraqdailyjournal.com/story-z17408425
How does this happen?
As Patrick Cockburn observes, this is a human-made drought.
It did not happen overnight.
Nor was it a surprise.
In other news, Margaret Griffis (ANTIWAR.COM) notes, "Unidentified gunmen killed a top aide to Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr at his home in Najaf. Shawqi Hadad was also a commander of Saraya al-Ashura, one of the Shi’ite militias."
Moqtada's bloc came in first in the May elections. Partial recounts are currently taking place. Apparently, there are no real changes because Kirkuk is the only thing anyone's pointing to.
And any issue with Kirkuk's votes would not be a surprise. They were questioned the day of the election by the governor of Kirkuk who imposed a curfew and called for a manual recount.
So the partial recount appears to be producing no real changes.
Which means the politicians will have less excuses for foot dragging. We're now nearing two months since the election and still no government has been formed.
Lastly . . .
US Iraq war veteran: ‘To prevent veterans’ suicide, US should stop waging wars across the globe’ on.rt.com/995t
Check out the RT article.
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