Is leftist Hollywood racist????

[gardenweasel]

don`t know about the racist question...

but,imo,a large majority disgust me..

the certainly never stood up for theo van gogh, who in effect was one of their own.....

i think hollywood`s full of uneducated, ignorant and narcissistic cowards who believe their easy access to a public platform makes them more knowing and worldly than john q. public, but in reality they are one of the most uneducated and vacuous classes of people in the country......

here`s the difference between generations...in a nutshell...this current crop of pampered wussies are allowed to be a large force in the current crop of socialist anti-american circus freak shows thanks in no small part to these folks...


alec guinness (star wars) operated a british royal navy landing craft on d-day.

canandian james doohan (“scotty” on star trek) landed in normandy with the u. s. army on d-day.

donald pleasance (the great escape) really was an r. a. f. pilot who was shot down, held prisoner and tortured by the germans.

david niven was a sandhurst graduate and lt. colonel of the british commandos in normandy.

james stewart entered the army air force as a private and worked his way to the rank of colonel...during w.w.III, stewart served as a bomber pilot, his service record crediting him with leading more than 20 missions over germany, and taking part in hundreds of air strikes during his tour of duty. ..stewart earned the "air medal", the "distinguished flying cross", france’s "croix de guerre", and 7 "battle stars" during wwII.... in peace time, stewart continued to be an active member of the air force as a reservist, reaching the rank of brigadier general before retiring in the late 1950s.

clark gable (mega-movie star when war broke out): llthough he was beyond the draft age at the time the U.S. entered WW II, clark gable enlisted as a private in the aaf on aug. 12, 1942, at los angeles.......he attended the officers’ candidate school at miami beach, fla. and graduated as a second lieutenant on oct. 28, 1942......he then attended aerial gunnery school, and in feb. 1943 he was assigned to the 351st bomb group at polebrook where he flew operational missions over europe in b-17s.....capt. gable returned to the u.s. in oct. 1943 and was relieved from active duty as a major on jun. 12, 1944, at his own request, since he was over-age for combat.

charlton heston was an army air corps sergeant in kodiak.

ernest borgnine was a u.s.n navy gunner’s mate 1935-1945.

charles durning was a u.s. army ranger at normandy, earning a silver star and awarded the purple heart.....

charles bronson was a tail gunner in the army air corps, more specifically on b-29s in the 20th air force out of guam, tinian, and saipan.

george c.scott was a decorated u.s. marine.

eddie albert (green acres, tv) was awarded a bronze star for his heroic action as a u.s. naval officer aiding marines at the horrific battle on the island of tarawa in the pacific, nov. 1943.

Brian Keith served as a U.S. Marine rear gunner in several actions against the Japanese on Rabal in the Pacific.

lee marvin was a u.s.. marine on saipan during the marianas campaign when he was wounded, earning the purple heart.

john russel(lawman)l: in 1942, he enlisted in the marine corps where he received a battlefield commission and was wounded and highly decorated for valor at guadalcanal.

robert ryan was a u.s. marine who served with the o.s.s. in yugoslavia.

tyrone power (an established movie star when pearl harbor was bombed) joined the u.s. marines, was a pilot flying supplies into, and wounded marines out of, iwo jima and okinawa.

audie murphy, little 5’5“ tall 110-pound guy from texas who played cowboy parts?

most decorated serviceman of wwII and earned: medal of honor, distinguished service cross, 2 silver star medals, legion of merit, 2 bronze star medals with ”V", 2 purple hearts, u,s, army outstanding civilian service medal, good conduct medal, 2 distinguished unit emblems, american campaign medal, european-african-middle eastern campaign medal with one silver star, four bronze service stars (representing nine campaigns) and one bronze arrowhead (representing assault landing at sicily and southern france) world war II victory medal army of occupation medal with germany clasp, armed forces reserve medal, combat infantry badge, marksman badge with rifle bar, expert badge with bayonet bar, french fourragere in colors of the croix de guerre, French legion of honor, grade of chevalier, french croix de guerre With silver star, french croix de guerre with palm, medal of liberated france, belgian croix de guerre 1940 palm.....

not to mention that gable lost his wife,carole lombard on a uso missuin..

other nptables...alan hale,jr and russell johnson(the prof...highly decorated)from gilligan`s islad....

neville brand was highly decorated..bob hope performed an amazing service service with the uso..

larry srorch from "f troop"...
sports stars like ted williams,hank greenburg,

julia child :scared joined the office of strategic services (OSS) after being turned down by the united states navy "for being too tall"...

humphrey bogart....

also must mention the great marlene dietrich, VERY anti-nazi, who went to the FRONT lines (unlike the uso shows) in ww II, at very great risk of her life, with just a guitar guy and a jeep driver to put on shows for the men in bombed-out cellars and basements.....

and they loved her for it. and still speak of La Dietrich with tears of gratitude.

she also did some resistance work.... quite a lady.

that`s just a smidgen...i missed a ton of `em...

obviously we live in different times...and the last few generations are cut from a different cloth....

our parents and grandparents were from special generations...we owe them everything.....

 

[gardenweasel]

jimmy stewart...."There are three things you lose as you get older. The first is your memory and...I can't remember the other two".......lol

 

[smurphy]

audie murphy, little 5?5? tall 110-pound guy from texas who played cowboy parts?

most decorated serviceman of wwII and earned: medal of honor, distinguished service cross, 2 silver star medals, legion of merit, 2 bronze star medals with ?V", 2 purple hearts, u,s, army outstanding civilian service medal, good conduct medal, 2 distinguished unit emblems, american campaign medal, european-african-middle eastern campaign medal with one silver star, four bronze service stars (representing nine campaigns) and one bronze arrowhead (representing assault landing at sicily and southern france) world war II victory medal army of occupation medal with germany clasp, armed forces reserve medal, combat infantry badge, marksman badge with rifle bar, expert badge with bayonet bar, french fourragere in colors of the croix de guerre, French legion of honor, grade of chevalier, french croix de guerre With silver star, french croix de guerre with palm, medal of liberated france, belgian croix de guerre 1940 palm.....

Don't forget it, man. Tippin my 40 for cousin Audie.

Still, no reason to get riled up about today's celebrities. Anyone with a lot of time and money on their hands starts getting into causes. How are activist celebrities any different than activist CEO wives or avtivist software gurus. You see a few on O'Reilly and start thinking all of Hollywood is on some leftist liberal agenda. It's simply not true. Visit the operations of any TV or film studio. You'll see a ton of hard working behind the scenes people working their asses off. You obviously don't hear what their views and causes are because their too busy working and nobody would care to hear anyway. Every now and then, a project might feature one of these rich out of touch icons. It's pretty much the same as every industry - millions of low level worker bees and a few rich people at the top with the luxury of finding a cause. You only think it's outrageous because all you see are those lucky few paraded in a situation that always makes them look at their worst.

 

[djv]

If they only gave Oscars out to moves that made most bucks. They would have some stupid winners at times.

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Not only that GW--but Hollywood was instrumental in supporting troops---

Hollywood's World War II Combat Movies

Ninety million Americans went to the movies every week during World War II. The shows began with a newsreel. The audience saw Hitler dancing a jig or Pearl Harbor engulfed in flames or Roosevelt meeting with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. A cartoon followed, perhaps Bugs Bunny "Nipping the Nips." Then came the main attraction, with Errol Flynn spitting grenade pins out of his mouth or John Wayne using a bulldozer to push an enemy tank off a cliff.

Many of our deepest images of war's glory and ugliness come from World War II combat films. They helped shape our very conceptions of courage, patriotism, and teamwork. Their images remain firmly etched in our imagination: of Axis troops torturing and mutilating prisoners; of heavily outnumbered American GIs fending off enemy forces; of a corporal telling a young marine, "Nothing wrong with praying. There are no atheists in foxholes."

In comparison to Hollywood's efforts to promote public support for the war effort during World War I, the wartime movies of World War II tended to be much more subtle and restrained. Where many films made during the First World War had focused on real or alleged enemy atrocities - depicting wicked German soldiers ravishing innocent Belgium women - Hollywood's World War II produced a more diverse response, ranging from films like Mission to Moscow, presenting our Soviet allies in a positive light, to Casablanca, with its portrait of a Rick Blaine's gradual shift from self-centered detachment to active involvement in the Allied cause.

Of the many kinds of films that Hollywood produced during World War II to rally the public behind the war effort, perhaps the most distinctive was the combat film. Films like Air Force, Destination Tokyo, Flying Tigers, Guadalcanal Diary, Objective, Burma!, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, and Wake Island gave viewers on the home front a vicarious sense of participating in the war. Employing an almost documentary style, these films helped bring the war home. But these war films did much more: they helped educate viewers in the reasons why we fought by depicting "democracy in action." Apart from offering a sense of wartime crisis, these films were allegories of a democratic nation at war.

Typically, these films focused on an small group of men involved in a life-or-death mission: struggling valiantly to hold an island or to attack a target deep behind enemy lines. Thus, the film Air Force told the story of a single B-17 Flying Fortress; Wake Island, the tale of the small group of marines and civilians who struggled to hold off a much larger force of attacking Japanese; and Destination Tokyo, on a single submarine's efforts to enter Tokyo Bay in preparation for Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo in 1942. By focusing on a single isolated group, Hollywood was able to reveal the human meaning of war to individuals that the audience could identify with.

Invariably, this small group was a microcosm of the American melting pot, made up of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, men from diverse ethnic groups, and distinct personality types. Objective, Burma! had, for example, a Hennessy, a Miggleori, a Neguesco. The group's very composition underscored the fact that this was a democratic war - a peoples' war - drawing upon every segment of society.

Although these groups were usually commanded by a strong leader, success ultimately depended on the men's ability to operate as a team, balancing individual acts of heroism with professionalism and mutual cooperation. In Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, the story of Jimmy Doolittle's bombing raid, each man played a critically important role, whether he was a mechanic, a navigator, a bombadier, a pilot. Individualism and cooperation both were necessary, according to these films, to preserve American freedoms.



The key crises in these films's plot tended not to come from the threats posed by enemy forces - which the men faced with remarkable stoicism - but rather, as Robert B. Ray has noted, from the arrival of an outsider - a coward, a malcontent, a reckless loner - who threatens group cohesion and the men's ability to concentrate on the task at hand. The plot ultimately turns on the whether this outsider can be successfully integrated into the group and become a contributing member of the team. In one of the most famous examples, in the film Wake Island, a selfish civilian contractor, who initially refuses to obey air raid warnings, ultimately joins a marine commander in a fox hole in a desperate attack to stave off the Japanese attack.

Much more than mere entertainment, the combat films of World War II were veritable civic lessons that taught Americans winning the war required the country to live up to its democratic values.


Hollywood Goes to War

During World War II, no group of American gave more to the war effort in time, talent, energy and the raising of money than the Hollywood stars of the day. Clark Gable, James Stewart, Lloyd Bridges, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, Frank Capra, Walter Huston, John Huston and William Wyler worked on and appeared in many war documentaries that brought hope and understanding about the war to the American people back home. Humphery Bogart, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Alan Ladd, Barbara Stanwyck, Carmen Cavallaro, Red Skelton, to name a few, worked tirelessly throughout the country, to raise the needed money for the government to continue its war effort.

 

[gardenweasel]

i hear you,dogs....i don`t think you can underestimate the effect that this emotional support had on patriotism and the war effort.....

the movies...the celebrities...the war bond drive...rosie the riveter....

a different time...better,stronger people....that didn`t take everything for granted..

thats right...they were better..stronger...more patriotic...

maybe because their life was harder...maybe it was because they didn`t have this type of extremist left wing media hammering their anti-american agenda day in and day out

the war generation...and the following generation...they had jimmy stewart.....cary grant .clark gable....kirk douglas....spencer tracy...cagney.....burt lancaster...david niven...anthony quinn....heston....gregory peck....gary cooper..

now??...clooney...oralndo bloom...brad pitt..johnny depp?....matt damon....ben affleck..."leo"de caprio(is he 18 yet?)...

star power?...maybe alec baldwin...he can act...but he looks more and more like daniel baldwin.....

after deniro and morgan freeman,you can throw `em all in the ocean...

are any of these guys out of puberty yet?

they had sinatra and dean....we have clay aiken(or whatever his name is)...

all terrorists are germanic,according to the new hollywood...just watch "the sum of all fears"...then,read the book....

there`s no right or wrong...just "feelings"...


lol...

why is anybody surprised at our lack of resolve?...

we`re bombarded with this crap from grade school(at least in colorado).......

 

[StevieD]

Maybe because they were fighting a war the people could believe in.

 

[DIRTY Diapers]

Maybe because they were fighting a war the people could believe in.

Like the Vietnam war... Lol

 

[gardenweasel]

the stars of today reflect the overall laizes-faire attitude of left wing america and their darlings in the media...and academia...

isn`t it funny...that perceptions are starting to change in europe....after a few stiff shots in the nuts...

maybe that`s what it will take here...

you aren`t alone,stevie and diapers....like minded individuals have your backs...

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[DOGS THAT BARK]

Was different back then--no liberals
Even Dems were conservative--seriously.

-- few drugs-no aids-little welfare--few illegal aliens-no flag burners-and church's on every corner--

 

[djv]

No Drugs. They just drank more booze. After prohibition beer out sold milk.
WW I a strange war. WW II a war it took Perl Harbor to get us in. However we were close to going in. Do to we didn't want Russia to hold most of Europe if things went bad. And they ended up with 30/40% anyway.
Iraq war built on so much miss info and bad intelligences It's hard
to believe in. I guess because we never finished in Afghan does not
help. In Iraq We put our Soldiers in harm way with out a good plan.