British ‘Civil War’ Director Alex Garland Disses America: ‘Nobody Is Exceptional’ [More]
That pretty much tells me all I need to know about whether or not to spend money on his movie.
[Via bondmen]
Notes from the Resistance
Here’s the (latest) rights scam the Bradys are pulling, #SHOWGUNSAFETY, and, no surprise, it looks like Hollywood is tripping all over itself to do its part. [More]
Just imagine what we could do with an army of Alec Baldwins!
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‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ stars reunite, talk possible reboot of hit ’80s TV series [More]
Will they have to melt their car down…?
In a major change to the way Hollywood movies and TV series are made, live ammunition will be banned from production sets under a new agreement reached by the Directors Guild of America and studios. [More]
That wasn’t already a rule?
How will they catch it if someone deliberately doesn’t comply and/or is carrying concealed?
Does it include security? And will there be an “Only Ones” exception if they have to show up again?
[Via Roger J]
Bill Hader perfectly illustrated America’s diseased gun culture with a single, utterly terrifying 30-second-long scene in Barry [More]
This Eric Italiano character sounds every bit the man Newsweek thinks Bill Hader is.
[Via Michael G]
Alec Baldwin to star in film about Kent State shootings in 1970 [More]
OK, in this shot, Alec, I want you to point the gun right at the protesting students…
Steven Spielberg says he regrets editing guns out of ‘.E.T.’ [More]
That didn’t bother me as much as Saving Private Ryan.
Spielberg’s involvement is also curious, because per a 2008 report in GQ, actor Shia LaBeouf revealed the director “has the most ridiculous collection. He’s got a gun for every movie he’s made. He buys old Perazzi guns, Italian—beautiful, beautiful guns—and gets them engraved. It takes like a year. He’s got the Jaws gun; he’s got E.T. He let me shoot with the Jurassic Park gun. He just got his Saving Private Ryan back from the engraver’s.”
[Via Steve T]
Brothers in Jussie Smollett hoax break silence, say actor wanted to be ‘poster child for activism’ [More]
I can see where they say the greatest problem is with white supremacism. Hey, if there wasn’t so much systemic racism, the lottery-blowing stage prop wouldn’t have had to fake being a victim of it.
[Via bondmen]
Putin Awards Friendship Medal to Action Star Steven Seagal [More]
There’s a metaphor in here somewhere…
* Best Comrades Forever
[Via Steve T]
Mangold wondered, “How do you move forward into new decades where the world is no longer seen in such clear demarcations of black and white and good and evil?” [More]
Rich, “progressive” Hollywood bigwigs channeling their inner Antifa don’t see Cold War communists as evil? Wait– he’s still fighting “Nazis”…?
Not that the stage prop disagrees.
This may turn out to be a worse rape of Indy than the last go-round.
Alec Baldwin Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting: DA’s Witness List Full Of Crew Members From Troubled Indie Western As First Court Hearing Looms In Criminal Case [More]
For some reason, I’m reminded of Harvey Weinstein.
It’s funny, how people who would have literally done anything for the power player to get a job can’t turn on him fast enough when the incentives change.
There must be a lot of suppressed frustrated hatred in that business from people trained to wear a smile.
[Via bondmen]
Photo and video evidence “clearly show Baldwin, multiple times, with his finger inside of the trigger guard and on the trigger,” according to the statement of probable cause submitted by prosecutors. [More]
Besides, we know how important family phone calls are to him.
[Via Michael G]
Alec Baldwin to be charged with involuntary manslaughter in ‘Rust’ film shooting [More]
I wonder what other recommendations he’d like to share with us.
The magazine’s critic gave “Kin” an “F” rating for allowing a 14-year-old character to use a gun-like device. [More]
No surprise Disney vows to push more family values by stepping up its citizen disarmament themes. I’m waiting for them to remaster Old Yeller, where a coincidentally 14-year-old Travis has to dispatch the rabid dog without a rifle.
[Via Michael G]
Related UPDATE
Former President Barack Obama, Disney CEO Bob Iger and Matthew McConaughey joined together in New York Tuesday to condemn and lift up solutions to the continuing issue of gun violence on the 10th anniversary of the school shooting in Sandy Hook. [More]
[Via bondmen]
“Why didn’t [Gutierrez Reed] check that bullet? Why didn’t Halls obey her?” Baldwin asked. “Why did he give me the gun? Why didn’t he check? Why did he tell the crew [it was a cold gun]? … I’m pretty confident neither one of them should ever work in a film set again,” he said, adding, “I sincerely believe … [investigators are] going to say that this was an accident. It’s tragic.” [More]
It was everybody else’s fault but the guy who shot a woman to death.
Nice to see Frances Fisher making excuses for him and blaming us…
[Via Jess]
My first thought was to wonder how many set casualties there would have been had Alec Baldwin done this routine.
[Via 1Gat]
The family of a Marine killed in Afghanistan last year reportedly filed a defamation lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin last week for the second time, accusing him of being “negligent and reckless”… [More]
Joe Rogan slams Hollywood hypocrisy: ‘Anti-gun, but they promote guns more than any other media on the planet’ [More]
Says the @$$hole who said he was voting for Bernie.
This Rogan character is turning out to be a bigger fraud than obnoxious carnival barker Michael Savage. I’m just not getting why so many self-identified “conservatives” are enamored of the guy.
[Via Jess]
“It’s my honor to be here,” Pelosi said after being introduced by host RuPaul Andre Charles. “Your freedom of expression of yourselves in drag is what America is all about.” [More]
Just read anything by the Founders…
Tell me John Adams wouldn’t have been the first one to jump into the mosh pit. (I’d say “NSFW” on that last link, except in today’s “woke” corporate world, you’d no doubt be canceled and destroyed for complaining.)
A culture with such “values” and priorities in a world filled with ruthless and serious enemies is on a self-induced downward spiral to hard extinction.
A group of 200 top writers, producers and directors have signed an open letter backed by the Brady gun violence organization that includes a pledge to incorporate gun safety best practices into their shows and to scrutinize the use of firearms in storytelling. [More]
That means scripting in more manipulative lies.
Funny, how everything “progressives” do has been done before.
[Via Steve T]