In the latest edition of POLIWOOD, Lionel and I discuss what the new Obama Adminstration means to Hollywood – how movies will change, if they do. We hope you like it. This edition is free for non-subscribers. Earlier ones, if you missed them, ask you to register. That’s it. We’re still in beta, but I am pleased to say response to this show has been surprisingly good for a couple of geezers swapping war stories. In this one, of course, we focus in on the amazingly successful Emanuel Brothers – Rahm and Ari – who are taking over Washington and Hollywood. Feedback appreciated.
I really loved your " comments. Quite good.
Thanks for the fix
So how long do I have to wait for the MSM to go after the power behind The One, the Neo-Lib Jews, like they did the Neo-Cons and their control over ChimpBush?
Mr. Olberman, over to you.
Roger, I don’t think you’re a geezer.
Age hath not wither’d, nor custom staled, your infinite variety.
Jamie Irons
Appreciate that, Jamie. As you might guess, reference was something of a “preemptive strike.” Get them before they get you…. I noticed some of our moveon friends often call me a “geezer” when they choose not to address my arguments.
Roger,
I could listen to you ‘two geezers’ swap stories for a good part of the day. My wife may have something to say about it but that’s another movie.
Easy banter…keeping it light…clearly you are good friends who enjoy each others company.
All good.
I do wonder, however, given the seemingly endless attacks by the very liberal/biased MSM regarding John McCain’s age and subsequent peril he was going to put our country in should he ‘kick the bucket’ on day one, if in fact the ‘youth obsessed’ ‘product placement’ ‘vertical integration’ Guys and Dolls who run Hollywood today are capable of connecting the dots and up to the task of making a great movie musical as pitched by two ‘wonderful old geezers’ such as you and Lionel.
(whew! can you say run on sentence?)
Maybe I am a bit more jaded. The movies you were discussing all had ‘heart and soul’. Great stories made by people who cared and loved MOVIES!
I almost prefer to stay home most times and click on TCM to get my fix. Although I miss the magic of sitting in the darkness of that grand auditorium and watching actors such as Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and David Niven in a classic like, ‘The Guns of Navarone’ up there on the big screen.
Sorry for getting off track…it’s feedback you wanted.
I agree, ‘Jersey Boys’ could be a good one.
As for one of my old favorites, I’ll go with ‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown’ for now.
Just love a good lookin’ gal with a little moxie to boot.
Anyway…
Keep up the good work Roger and take care,
Jimmy
Roger,
Lose that ‘old’ from ‘geezer’ keep the ‘wonderful’ though.
Long night…
All the best,
Jimmy
Two more reasons not to restrict immigration.
Speaking of Poliwood, these were some of the heftier celebrity contributions to the Obama campaign (from Newsmeat):
Herb Alpert $57,000
author Patricia Cornwell $57,000
producer/filmmaker JJ Abrams $37,700
record producer Clarence Avant $35,800
HBO CEO Chris Albrecht $33,100
Harry Connick, Jr. $33,100
George Clooney $33,100
Jamie Lee Curtis $33,100
record producer Berry Gordy $33,100
producer Brian Grazer $33,100
Melanie Griffith $33,100
Jeffrey Katzenberg (Dreamworks) $33,100
screenwriter David Koepp $33,100
Norman Lear $33,100
George Lucas $33,100
Edward Norton $33,100
Heather Thomas $33,100
Craig of Craigslist $33,100
Chris Rock $33,100
director Sam Simon $33,100
Will Smith $33,100
Steven Spielberg $33,100
Heather Thomas $33,100
Penny Pritzker (who entertained Ahmadinejad in NYC) $32,700
“TV judge” Greg Mathis $32,300
Jodie Foster $31,800
exec. Tracey Edmonds $31,300
Jennifer Anniston $30,800
Larry David $30,800
Kate Capshaw $30,800
Paul Dooley $ 30,800
Harrison Ford $30,800
‘Lemony Snicket’Daniel Handler $30,800
Tom Hanks $30,800
author Judith Krantz $30,800
Paramount CEO Sherry Lansing $30,800
Tobey Maguire $30,800
Eddie Murphy $30,800
producer Darren Star $30,800
Yahoo’s Terry Semel $30,800
Yahoo founder Jerry Yang $30,800
Rita Wilson $30,800
Denzel Washington $30,800
will.i.am $30,800
Rita Wilson $30,800
producer Steven Bochco $30,700
Rob Reiner $30,600
sports agent Leigh Steinberg $30,500
Leonardo DeCaprio $28,500
Viacom/MTV’s Tom Freston $28,500
filmmaker Christopher Guest $28,500
Quincy Jones $28,500
Madonna $28,500
Gary Marshall $28,500
Renee Zellweger $28,500
Ted Turner $28,500
producer Joss Wheddon $28,500
director Robert Zemeckis $28,500
SONY CEO, Howard Stringer $28,400
Magic Johnson $27,300
Ben Stiller $27,300
Donna Karan $23,100
Gwyneth Paltrow $20,000
George Zimmer (Men’s Warehouse) $28,500
David Hyde Pierce $17,300
Kate Hudson $15,000
Michael Douglas $14,600
Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner $14,450
exec. Ted Harbet $13,300
Christie Brinkley $12,000
Rhea Pearlman $12,000
Annette Benning $10,000
Amy Brenneman $10,000
Maggie Gyllenhaal $10,000
Michael Stipe $10,000
That leaves about $598 million still to be explained, but it’s a start.
how did they give so much? isn’t there a limit of 2,300 (twice, I think) per family?
Does anyone know the amt. from Oprah, that would probaby be in the ? million $ figure. I imagine since they are all more than likely corporations the amt. permitted would be more than individual donations.
The British use the word “geezer” and mean it like an American ‘DUDE”, which the westen cowboy’s might say ” he is a real sharp dresser” or “Jim Dandy”
and Roger, take it this way, as a geezer you & Lionel will never be. You both have too much going for you, just keep it up.
Will movies change? I think the current formulas will, if anything, be reenforced.
I just saw a film called Role Models, praised to the skies in the reviews I read, an utterly forgettable formula picture in my opinion. What I noticed – maybe those completely soaked in our present culture don’t even register it anymore – is that the two black characters in the film have one and only one function: to crap on whitey. Whitey, of course, just takes it, that’s his formulaic roll.
That formula, among several others that advance today’s debased liberal agenda, will continue. Why shouldn’t it? Where’s the opposition? Oh yeah, the opposition has been marginalized at best, criminalized at worst. Welcome to the wonderful world of tolerance.
ricpic:
Yeah, but action movies like Iron Man make a lot more money. And these Hollywood liberals all love money.
Terrye,
We all want to be achievers and make money, it is not a left or right love fest, it is what makes this country what it is, a Democratic Society. We are all in a
financial shut down and even Hollywood is suffering big time. The loss of homes is from the bottom up, many are those that build the sets, drive the vans, scout locations, just the workers behind the scenes. We all need to let the writers and directors know what we want to see on both the big screen and in the home and if the public stop’s paying to see violence, violence will stop being what they produce. What Roger & Lionel discussed was so true
& to the point, musical’s with real story content needs to be brought back, film with family content, their are so many good mystery books out their that not violent, just good mysteries, futuristic film with interaction. On cable we can see old westerns and they still draw a big audience, at least big enough to pay the bill, so there must be an audience that would love to see new ones that show the today cowboys in America and country musicals would intro-duce the new Annie Oakley’s, Gene Autry’s, in other words a more peaceful society, but this time around we will break the color barrier and be stronger for it.
Money is not evil, greed is when it is not working for you and the public.
As I said over at PJTV, where is the Fred and Ginger love? Sad!
Hey, Ron… I love Fred and Ginger too. We’ll show some love on a future show. (But I love Fred and Cyd even more!)