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Nothing wrong with being a Tea Party supporter... but when you are doing a play and do a commercial holding a dog while yapping about how scary things are these days you open yourself up to be fired or let go.
I had to look her up. I remember her in a few movies long ago. I think she's pulling a Stacey Dash hoping to get more acting roles. It won't help her as it didn't help Dash.
I had to look her up. I remember her in a few movies long ago. I think she's pulling a Stacey Dash hoping to get more acting roles. It won't help her as it didn't help Dash.
The worst portrayal of a 'chola" ever....Colors (1988).
If you'd actually bothered to read anything you'd know it's San Francisco but don't let the facts muddle a good whine, eh?
"Hollywood" means the entertainment industry, not physically Hollywood.
Its well documented that Conservatives are actively discriminated against in entertainment, which is why the left-wing controls our pop culture -- they won't let anyone else in who might disagree with them or disrupt the Liberal=good/Conservative=bad worldview.
The only way to make it in Hollywood as a Conservative is to conceal your political beliefs and nod along with the collective. Established actors like Bruce Willis and Clint Eastwood are too entrenched to get rid of, but struggling or young actors don't have a chance if their political allegiance is discovered. Their agents won't even submit them because once people know who you're a Republican, you can't even get auditions.
"Hollywood" means the entertainment industry, not physically Hollywood.
Its well documented that Conservatives are actively discriminated against in entertainment, which is why the left-wing controls our pop culture -- they won't let anyone else in who might disagree with them. The only way to make it in Hollywood as a Conservative is to conceal your political beliefs and nod along with the collective. Established actors like Bruce Willis and Clint Eastwood are too entrenched to get rid of, but struggling or young actors don't have a chance if their political allegiance is discovered. Their agents won't even submit them because once people know who you're a Republican, you can't even get auditions.
bs. the rock is in everything right now and is a registered republican.
washington supports obama, but wear his christian religion on his sleeve, i believe even does some pastor work.
this is an employee-employer situation similar to duck dynasty.
She was going to be in a Spanish language version of a play. Right or wrong, the Latino community was up in arms over her very public anti-immigration stand. Since the play was physically taking place in the middle of the Mission District, which is heavily Latino, and the playgoers would most likely also be Latino, in addition to the fact she was fired by a Latino, this may have also been a business decision. The play would most likely have been boycotted and possibly picketed by the angry Latino community. Who needs politics messing with their production?
I worked at a heavily Republican law firm. One of the attorneys ran for public office as a Democrat and ended up leaving the firm as the clients were also heavily conservative. We were also sent emails on various occasions advising us how to vote (which apparently is not illegal). The Koch brothers threatened to fire people if they voted for Obama or even expressed a favorable opinion of him. So, this is not new--just publicized by the right-wing due to her minor celebrity. Hard to believe she would even be surprised.
bs. the rock is in everything right now and is a registered republican.
washington supports obama, but wear his christian religion on his sleeve, i believe even does some pastor work.
this is an employee-employer situation similar to duck dynasty.
The Rock was also the biggest grossing star of 2013. He was already popular by the time his political leanings became known, so he's one that's among the "too entrenched" to be able to shun.
Many who I personally know are liberal because of Jon Stewart and their Marxist professors.
So you have friends who are highly susceptible to being influenced. I often wonder why those kids weren't raised by their parents to think for themselves.
''The actress was to perform next month at the Brava Theater Center in San Francisco’s Mission District in a Spanish-language version of “The Vagina Monologues,” scheduled for a run from February 14th through 17th. The show is being produced by none other than Eliana Lopez, wife of San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.''
“We really cannot have her in the show, unfortunately,” Lopez told KPIX 5. She said Alonso abruptly resigned from the cast on Friday, given the backlash on the immigration issue.
“Of course she has the right to say whatever she wants. But we’re in the middle of the Mission. Doing what she is doing is against what we believe,” Lopez said.
Wether you like or dislike the Tea Party, it doesn't matter. No one shouldlose ytheir job and be barred from working in an industry they love just because they have a different opinion. Anyone who still doesn't think Hollywood is liberally dominant and discriminates against conservatives needs to look no further than here. For a group who believes in being tolerantab open mminde , they seem to be the exact opposite.
So - she wasn't blacklisted, she wasn't fired, and this has nothing to do with Hollywood. Apart from that, nice summary of the facts.
I know it's very important for the Right to somehow establish a moral equivalency to the despicable acts performed by those who shaped your ideology back in the 50s, but the fact remains that people who were actually blacklisted didn't take part in TV commercials telling how great Communism was. This particular fool decided on her own to put her face out there in an ad that she must have known would anger a good part of her audience. Bad career move.
I may or may not have some pretty harsh ideas regarding the MPAA and the way it enforces copyright, but seeing as I work for a movie studio, I am not going to be art of a political ad designed to undermine the MPAA's legislative initiatives, because that would be stupid and my employer would be well within their rights to let me go.
As for famous, well - this exemplifies why the word "famous" was banned from the BBC for the longest time as being "either superfluous or untrue". Her main cinematic achievement appears to be eye candy in Running Man, 1987. Her most steady TV gig is a more recent soap opera called "Saints and Sinners". Nothing wrong with that, many actors have done far worse - but it's a stretch to call her famous.
"Hollywood" means the entertainment industry, not physically Hollywood.
Hollywood is a bit of a broad term, but a two-bit theatrical performance 500 miles away? You may as well use "Broadway", at least that would get the media right.
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