In the past, artists fought against big government and heretics, now they lobby for government growth accompanied by a Springsteen soundtrack while sneering at decent people of faith. There is nothing heroic about artists being part of the state. Artist
by Joseph Lindsey26 Apr 2011, 6:38 AM PST0
Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! (out today) is not the book I thought it would be. I was expecting a storied narrative simply about a man who stumbles into a career as a political muckraker. What
by Joseph Lindsey15 Apr 2011, 4:48 AM PST0
Mohandas Gandhi was imprisoned in 1922, 1930, 1933 and 1942. He went on a hunger strike. But because of Gandhi’s stature around the world, British authorities were loath to allow him to die in their custody. —– Potti Sriramulu was
by Joseph Lindsey14 Apr 2011, 10:56 AM PST0
Hollywood loves war, it is their glory. War lines the pockets of Hollywood liberals while giving them a forum to moralize their position at the cost of box office totals. And war is what most Hollywood lefties turn to when
by Joseph Lindsey23 Mar 2011, 4:39 AM PST0
If there is a line to get into hell the man standing at the front is author and habitual literary-prevaricator James Frey. Frey, one of those writers who in their misguided youth got hooked on drugs, stole things, got in
by Joseph Lindsey17 Mar 2011, 12:13 PM PST0
In May of 1994, I walked into a Hollywood chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous for the first time; while waiting for the meeting to begin I watched as an Academy Award-wining actor swept the floor. It was his humbling little task.
by Joseph Lindsey3 Feb 2011, 4:47 AM PST0
The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner recently hosted a dinner for the man who’s holding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner in prison. The Hollywood community and their human rights lobby were oddly silent on this event. Could it be
by Joseph Lindsey28 Jan 2011, 6:37 AM PST0
Every year we regular folk are blessed with wisdom from Hollywood’s elite: how to vote, worship, eat, what to drive, raise our kids, who in corporate America is making too much money, and who we should love and who we
by Joseph Lindsey2 Jan 2011, 10:45 AM PST0
The President and his clan are all tied-up-in-knots over not being able to raise taxes on those they deem rich. When Democrats don’t get their way they loose all rational thought like teen-girls suffering a case of front row “Bieber
by Joseph Lindsey15 Dec 2010, 4:52 AM PST0
When overweight girls start committing suicide, will Kathy Griffin stop bullying them? Only in liberal Hollywood can someone as washed up and discarded by her own personal life be considered someone with a sense of morality and cause. Because her
by Joseph Lindsey8 Dec 2010, 10:07 AM PST0
Oscars are more often distributed to women in Hollywood who play to the downfall of their species, rather than to its nobility. Or, in the case of Gwyneth Paltrow, winning an Oscar for playing a prepubescent boy in “Shakespeare in
by Joseph Lindsey17 Nov 2010, 7:30 AM PST0
Once a year the portrait of Chairman Mao that hangs above Tiananmen Gate is replaced by a new one. Who the artist is has never been disclosed. For Napoleon, Jacque-Louis David was his favorite painter and the man most responsible
by Joseph Lindsey8 Sep 2010, 9:47 AM PST0
Ed. Note: This is second part of a two-part series of excerpts from Joseph Lindsey’s new novel “Life to the Right of Hollywood.” Part one can be found here. Take 4 – An Actor Sees no Limits The odds against
by Joseph Lindsey21 Jul 2010, 6:44 AM PST0
My name is Joseph Lindsey and it’s been 4195 days since I last pretended to be a liberal. When I sat down to write my story my first instinct was to write it as a vapid, narcissistic autobiography, one about
by Joseph Lindsey20 Jul 2010, 6:41 AM PST0
I once found myself on bar stool in Hollywood seated next to the writer Elmore Leonard, eventually striking up a conversation I told him how much I enjoyed his work and of my own desire to write but that my
by Joseph Lindsey14 Jul 2010, 12:15 PM PST0
[Editor’s Note: Script reviews of upcoming projects have been around for as long as there’s been an Internet. Therefore it’s no secret that a film can evolve into something quite different from its screenplay. Please keep in mind that this
by Joseph Lindsey24 Jun 2010, 5:02 AM PST0
Hollywood leads young women to believe that to be somebody the public needs to know who they are through a media outlet. Unfortunately, for some young women wanting to be in the spotlight, that entails lifting their shirts–or worse, while
by Joseph Lindsey8 Jun 2010, 5:02 AM PST0
Watching The Joy Behar Show on Head line News is akin to watching dead tuna dry in the sun- and the only thing that squashes this tuna melt more is when her guest is the man who inspired the term
by Joseph Lindsey13 May 2010, 1:22 PM PST0
When Hollywood Leftists cannibalize one another as if they were a bunch of Troglodytes forced into an out of control Kubrick film it sends a spool-of-drool to my mouth like a Pavlovian animal. Over the weekend Sigourney Weaver served up
by Joseph Lindsey14 Apr 2010, 8:41 AM PST0
[Editor’s Note: Script reviews of upcoming projects have been around for as long as there’s been an Internet. Therefore it’s no secret that a film can evolve into something quite different from its screenplay. Please keep in mind that this
by Joseph Lindsey7 Apr 2010, 6:55 AM PST0
I have yet to see a show business person give the acceptance speech they should at the Oscars. Instead, some turn the moment into a narcissistic stunt of protest, global outrage or badge of honor for whatever social injustice they
by Joseph Lindsey4 Mar 2010, 5:02 AM PST0
A onetime global but now aging action hero once told me in private how he took pity on an ugly woman pining for an autograph by taking her to bed, only to find that he couldn’t reach climax until he
by Joseph Lindsey13 Jan 2010, 5:01 AM PST0
Fame is that place where character is rarely able to sustain itself. I don’t know how much character Levi Johnston had as a boy, but as a young man in the grips of the Hollywood culture machine he’s lost it
by Joseph Lindsey4 Jan 2010, 2:46 PM PST0
Harvey Weinstein Members of the Hollywood community have signed a petition to have Roman Polanski released from jail. When is the Hollywood community also going to demand the release of 58 year old rapist Bruno Vece? On January 31st 2009
by Joseph Lindsey6 Oct 2009, 10:00 AM PST0
by Joseph Lindsey28 Sep 2009, 11:32 AM PST0