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Home Front: Culture Wars
Hollywood (some of it) condemns Hamas, Hezbollah
2006-08-17
NICOLE Kidman has made a public stand against terrorism. The actress, joined by 84 other high-profile Hollywood stars, directors, studio bosses and media moguls, has taken out a powerfully-worded full page advertisement in today's Los Angeles Times newspaper. It specifically targets "terrorist organisations" such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine.

"We the undersigned are pained and devastated by the civilian casualties in Israel and Lebanon caused by terrorist actions initiated by terrorist organisations such as Hezbollah and Hamas," the ad reads.

"If we do not succeed in stopping terrorism around the world, chaos will rule and innocent people will continue to die.

"We need to support democratic societies and stop terrorism at all costs."
That's quite a statement.
A who's who of Hollywood heavyweights joined Kidman on the ad. The actors listed included: Michael Douglas, Dennis Hopper, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Danny De Vito, Don Johnson, James Woods, Kelly Preston, Patricia Heaton and William Hurt. Directors Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael Mann, Dick Donner and Sam Raimi also signed their names.

Other Hollywood powerplayers supporting the ad included Sumner Redstone, the chairman and majority owner of Paramount Pictures, and billionaire mogul, Haim Saban.
Posted by:Steve White

#8  I'm stunned! No mention of Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon or the Baldwin Bros. though, eh?

Stephen Baldwin, a born-again Christian who supported GWB in 2004 is probably there. Since I am in SoCal, I will go out at lunch and get a Times, and report back to y'all the full list.
Posted by: BigEd   2006-08-17 12:25  

#7  Australian paper. Didn't think it'd be on the front page of the NY Times.
Posted by: tu3031   2006-08-17 09:48  

#6  Regarding the Scott brothers. Ridely worked on Blackhawk Down, he probably learned a thing or two about Islamic militants during the process.

Sam Raimi is of Persian decent. Religion is unknown though but I'm glad to see him on the list. Makes the messages in the Spider-man movies a bit clearer.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2006-08-17 08:50  

#5  The directors are a bit of a surprise - wasn't aware that they were reasonable, especially the Scotts, who have historically struck me as probable Hollywood left material. Most of the actors listed are known Republicans (Hopper, Willis, Preston, Woods especially), although Kidman was unexpected.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2006-08-17 08:01  

#4  Hey, submitted a dupe... mods, please kill it. Thx.

Not surprized by the names I see that signed. Pretty much all of them are anti-idiotarians. Good show!



Posted by: twobyfour   2006-08-17 07:15  

#3  That is the best show I have seen out of Hollywood Yet!!
Posted by: newc   2006-08-17 01:55  

#2  I'm stunned! No mention of Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon or the Baldwin Bros. though, eh?
Posted by: SteveS   2006-08-17 01:52  

#1  In August 2001, James Woods reported to the FBI on a possible pre-911 trial exercise on a plane. Hopefully, he has been educating his co-workers, as have we of the informed-community.
Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550   2006-08-17 01:35  

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