"I chose to go to college in New Orleans because I really liked Lisa Bonet in Angel Heart..."

Nick Gillespie | September 27, 2007

Over at the LA Times (a.k.a. workfare for former reason employees) Andrew Breitbart and David Ehrenstein have been debating "Hollywood values" with a ferocity of thrashing and splashing not seen since Shelly Winters made that ill-fated swim in The Poseidon Adventure.

How to do this exchange justice? It is throwing off more heat and light than the explosion of a 1,000 suns. Don't stare directly into, lest you go blind. And like a bag of Lay's Potato Chips, I bet you can't eat just one snippet, such as this Roy Batty-like mesmerizing morsel:

I know your biracial homosexual bio perfecta trumps my humble multiculti checklist, but I did have a bitchin' Bar Mitzvah; I adore my Latina sister (we're both adopted); and I chose to go to college in New Orleans because I really liked Lisa Bonet in "Angel Heart." Isn't that enough not to have an embroidered scarlet KKK on my hooded sweatshirt?

Read the whole exchange here.

Tim Cavanaugh, back before he sold out to the MSM, wrote about Hollywood's message movies here.

Matt Welch, before he became part of the problem, wrote about "Hollywood Whores and Their Political Johns" here.

Comments

stephen the goldberger|9.27.07 @ 5:48PM|#

well that was incomprehensible, gillespe's intro included.

|9.27.07 @ 6:06PM|#

It's like Dennis Miller on crack, and not in a good way.

|9.27.07 @ 6:12PM|#

"I know lets try to dissect the moral and political values of entertainers."

Jesus fucking Christ, what a waste of time.

Paul|9.27.07 @ 6:17PM|#

Say what?

Hmm. Maybe Reason staffers communicate to eachother [ex-staffers] in code.

|9.27.07 @ 6:35PM|#

I thought it was pretty damn entertaining.

JMR|9.27.07 @ 6:39PM|#

Winters did quite a bit of thrashing off-screen, too. From about.com:

Some of the men she said she had affairs with include Marlon Brando, Sean Connery, Adlai Stevenson, and Robert Walker. Additionally, Shelley "has been linked romantically to Lawrence Tierney, Anthony Quinn, Burt Lancaster, Alex Cord, Robert De Niro, Albert Finney, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, John Garfield, Farley Granger, Sterling Hayden, William Holden, Howard Hughes, and John Ireland."

stephen the goldberger|9.27.07 @ 6:42PM|#

what a ho

dhex|9.27.07 @ 6:47PM|#

smoke 'em if you got 'em.

and yeah that wasn't bad. not great, but not bad.

Guy Montag|9.27.07 @ 9:26PM|#

Um, Nick, Sir . . .

Did I ghost write this post for you while I was drunk and forget that I wrote it AND that I ghost write for you when I am drunk?

Also, why did you shave your sideburns to be in that Nationwide auto insurance commercial?

Guy Montag|9.27.07 @ 10:43PM|#

Nick in a commercial:
http://www.nationwide.com/nw/about-us/our-ads/auto-ads/index.htm

roy edroso|9.28.07 @ 1:44PM|#

Gibberish exponentiated is still gibberish. This "debate" makes Libertas look like Plato's Symposium.

What's the libertarian angle here? Perhaps only that logrolling is an essential part of unfettered capitalism.

|9.28.07 @ 2:56PM|#

Breibart text reads like it has been Babelfished one too many times.

Guy Montag|9.29.07 @ 10:56PM|#

Nick,

Christopher Hitchens said hello tonight, but you probably talk to each other more often that I see either of you.

Ohters, wow, the Hitch is one cool doode. Had a great conversation for about an hour at King Street Blues in the Crystal City Underground. I had to run home to get my copy of "The Trial of Henry Kissenger" for him to autograph. He was taking a break from some Athiest's convention. Quite surprised that I did not see commenters from H&R there ;)

Will 'blog it on /. soon.