… a New York Times profile on Robert Downey Jr. featured the following quote buried in the 23rd paragraph: “I have a really interesting political point of view, and it’s not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you can’t go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You can’t. I wouldn’t wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics ever since.”
it’s good to know that “iron man” ain’t no moonbat.
… Playwright David Mamet recently expressed a similar Road to Da Masses conversion. “I took the liberal view for many decades,” Mr. Mamet bravely wrote in a Village Voice op-ed, “but I believe I have changed my mind.”
he forgot to mention the best part of that piece: the title!
“David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’”
They join an elite brunch that includes Adam Sandler, Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton who also brazenly wear the Scarlet “R” in the middle of the school cafeteria.
Michael Crichton – who, to the chagrin of Al Gore, exposes “environmentalism as a religion” – and comic geni1us Dennis Miller show that there are cracks in the wall artificially separating Hollywood from much of America. This stealth contrarian trend (featuring high-end talent with iconoclastic reputations) could gain steam in an election featuring a “maverick” like Mr. McCain, who gives nervous showbiz conservatives far greater career cover than toxic avenger George W. Bush ever did.
i want to believe that this is really the tip of the “conservative” iceberg in hollywood. time will tell…
When asked recently what it was like to work with “Republican” Clint Eastwood (the question speaks volumes), Angelina Jolie, a “surge” supporter who also wants to produce Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” surprised Entertainment Weekly with her answer: “Actually, we don’t disagree as much as you’d think. I think people assume I’m a Democrat. But I’m registered independent and I’m still undecided. So I’m looking at McCain as well as Obama.”
oh, angelina baby; just when i thought you couldn’t get any cooler, you go and say that! i am IN LOVE! 
(all emphasis mine)
