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Official: Dissent Now Unpatriotic

You all know the drill. The recent vague and controversial DHS report on right-wing extremism, the cover of which DHS might just as well have put on the Republican Party platform. The endless puerile teabagging jokes from the fourth estate’s

Know Right-Wing Extremists By Their Bumper Stickers

TO: ALL LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES FM: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJ: NATIONWIDE ALERT – KNOW RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS BY THEIR BUMPER STICKERS! Per the Guidelines of the Department of Homeland Security’s recent report, all units and law enforcement agencies

Why Reparations Have Already Been Paid, With Interest

I may get in a lot of trouble for this, but that’s the risk you take with bold statements. And the bill on slavery reparations, currently before a Congressional committee, requires the boldest. Even President Obama stated he was against

Hollywood Diplomacy All Around

If you think this is another hit piece on Team Oscar’s abortive soiree to Islamist Iran, I only wish it were just that bad. It’s actually worse. Much worse. It seems the rest of the civilized world, particularly America under

Adventures in the Scream Trade, Take One

If you’re wondering if I was about to opine on the craft of gut-twisting horror stories, you’d only be half right. I’m actually talking about real life here. As many of you may know from my earlier posts, I first

Hollywood as Willie Horton and Team Oscar's Iran Blog

Some interesting news on Team Oscar in Iran. It seems both Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (he of the murdered blogger and post-Obama video Death to America rallies) and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are actually using Team Oscar’s visit to Iran as

Why Big Brother Matters: The Enduring Importance of '1984'

Few books in history, if any, have left such a powerfully lingering effect with their last four words as the classic tale of a totalitarian nightmare by Eric Blair (aka George Orwell), ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’: “He Loved Big Brother.” In those

Team Oscar Praises Film, Women's Rights in Iran

In a recent interview in Iran with the Hollywood Reporter (THR), AMPAS President Sid Ganis and actress Annette Bening made the following comments on the state of Iranian film culture and women’s rights today. First up, Mr. Ganis: It is

Some Tough Questions For Team-Oscar's Iran Follies

When Team Oscar lands on the Red Carpet at LAX, they’ll tell us what a joy it was sharing tea, finger cookies and film seminars with the hostage-takers, women-stoners, blogger-killers and gay butchers of Iran. As a public service of

The True State of 'Film Culture' in Today's Iran

Speaking at a film seminar in Tehran this past week, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis made the following statement regarding the recent controversy over such films as “300” and “The Wrestler,” which resulted in the

One Critic's Review of 'Mr. Ganis Goes To Tehran'

If anyone wrote a script like this, no one would believe it. But I already read the book. That they even went to Iran in the first place was an abomination, especially given their three-hour gay rights infomercial called The