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Sean Penn co-star puts the actor on mute

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Don’t invite Sean Penn and actress Maria Conchita Alonso to the same party. Especially if it’s the Community Party.

The actress rolled her eyes and groaned when she was asked about her former co-star. Then she really unloaded.

“It’s just that he has no clue at all what’s going on in Venezuela, praising Hugo Chavez who’s a dictator and a killer…” said Alonso, who was born in Cuba and raised in Venezuela. “I tried to put aside his being an amazing actor and his political views. He has no clue and he should just shut up about what he doesn’t know, because he doesn’t know.”

What happened when she saw Penn on television during the Academy Awards?

“…When his turn came I muted it and I started working on my lines. And then it was, like, are they done? Then he comes on stage and I was like, “Ughhhh.” (rolls eyes, makes face)

¡Ay, caramba! Beautiful and intelligent. Alonso, not Penn.

Source: TMZ
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Hollywood teaches New York a lesson on taxes

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Why don’t liberals understand that changes in tax policy also cause changes in people’s behavior?

Connecticut, which offers the nation’s heftiest tax incentives, is nearing agreement to bring the production of three syndicated TV shows to the state. “The Steve Wilkos Show” and “The Jerry Springer Show,” which are currently based in Chicago, and “Maury,” which is now produced in New York, are the shows that may make the move.

This is causing panic among other New York productions. Michael Imperioli, Harvey Keitel, and Jason O’Mara stars of TV’s “Life On Mars,” recently joined labor leaders to beg Empire State legislators to extend the state’s TV production tax credits.

No kidding? You mean Hollywood power players would actually abandon New York just to lower their tax burdens by moving production to Connecticut?

The problem with government, to use an old farm analogy, is that it always thinks it can increase milk production by increasing number of milkers instead of increasing the number of cows.

Source: HollywoodReporter

Crazy story of the day: Iran won’t believe Obama until Hollywood apologizes

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We’re not sure which is funnier: the fact that Hollywood sent a delegation to Iran or the fact that Iran immediately demanded an apology from that delegation.

“(Iranian) cinema officials will only have the right to have official sessions with…Hollywood movie makers, when they apologize to the Iranians for their 30 years of insults and slanders,” said Javad Shamaghdari, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s offical art advisor.

“We will believe Obama’s policy of change when we see change in Hollywood, too,” Shamaghdari continued, “and if Hollywood wants to correct its behavior towards Iranian people and Islamic culture then they have to officially apologize.”

The testy Iranians are upset because the movie “300” portrayed their ancient Persian ancestors as bloodthirsty and because Mickey Rourke’s character tore apart an Iranian flag in “The Wrestler.”

We say, “Get in line, Iran.” No apology for you until we get an apology for Sean Penn’s entire career.

Source: Breitbart

Has-been Hollywood halfwit brags “I’m so rich, everyone else is just dying”

sean_young_tmz_capture2There’s only one thing worse than a loudmouthed Hollywood star: a washed-up loudmouthed Hollywood star.

Of course, it would be unkind for us to mention any of these people by name. Sean Young. Oops. That was an accident. A complete accident. We didn’t mean to say Sean Young. Damn it. We did it again.

TMZ ran into the has-been Hollywood halfwit. When they asked how she was doing, she bragged that she hadn’t invested in the stock market and said, “I’m so rich now and everybody else is just like, just dying.”

Sean is the actress who starred in Blade Runner, Dune, Wall Street, and Fatal Instinct early in her career. Lately she’s been starring in clunkers like Parasomnia, Dating in L.A., and The Man Who Came Back.

We’re not sure, but we think TMZ’s camera cut off the last couple words of Sean Young’s quote. The unedited version said, “I’m so rich now and everybody else is just like, just dying. Like my career.”

Hooray for Hollywood: Stimulus package already working

mad_money_movieEvery Saturday morning, the movie industry announces three day box offices results for a weekend that still has two days to go. That makes Hollywood the only business in the world that is able to both rewrite history and the future.

For example, a headline yesterday read, “What Recession? Biggest Presidents Day Weekend In Hollywood History.”

This uncanny ability to peer into the future brings up one very sticky question:
If movie industry executives have the ability to tell how a movie is going to do before it does it, why do they make so many movies that do so poorly? Continue reading “Hooray for Hollywood: Stimulus package already working”

Creative accounting: now Hollywood wants bail-out money

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TctjzEeNnI4The more creative you are in Hollywood, the more money you make. Especially if your specialty is accounting.

Hollywood has now lined-up with tin cups in hand, begging for an infusion of tax dollars. One provision of the “stimulus” bill would have given new film projects an immediate 50% write-off.

Republicans, lead by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), shamed Democrats into stripping $246 million in movie industry tax breaks from the bloated bill.

They contend Hollywood doesn’t need they money. “They had their best January ever,” Coburn said.

If one were cynical, one might assume the tax breaks were designed as a payback for the campaign dollars Hollywood showered on Obama.

To see how the Hollywood bail-out would have been structured, Democrats watched the attached instructional video.

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