Apparently Their are a Few Conservatives in Hollywood
Posted by: Editorial Staff | 10/06/2008 2:03 AM
David Zucker's new movie, American Carol opened this weekend. Here is Rush Limbaugh's plug. Here is a review from the National Review. Here is a review from Red State.
Here is an excerpt from this weekend's Los Angeles Times:
Here is an excerpt from this weekend's Los Angeles Times:
The comedy 'An American Carol' skewers Michael Moore
By Derrik J. Lang | The Associated Press
It's a movie genre you don't hear much about in Hollywood: the right-wing comedy. For that matter, it's not much of a genre at all.
But it's exactly what conservative producer-director-screenwriter David Zucker created with "An American Carol." The gag-filled liberal lampoon stars Kevin Farley, brother of the late Chris Farley, as a scruffy Michael Moore clone named Michael Malone, an infamous documentary filmmaker leading a slapstick campaign to abolish the Fourth of July.
"I didn't tell anyone, not even my brother John, I had this part," said Farley, sitting in a conference room chair across from Zucker at Vivendi Entertainment, the film's distributor. "We wanted to keep it close to the vest. Meanwhile, I'm growing a beard and getting fatter. I had just gone through a divorce, and my brother was like, 'You need help!"'
Keeping mum is something both Farley and Zucker said they're accustomed to: In left-leaning Hollywood, conservative political inclinations aren't popular. In fact, when they first met about the role - Zucker said Larry the Cable Guy and Frank Caliendo were also considered - Farley wasn't sure if the veteran director knew he was a Republican.
"I think I've always been on the right side of things," said Farley. "I had a dad that was an influence on me. He was part of the Young Republicans at Georgetown University. He then ran for several public offices in Madison, Wisconsin, which is a bastion of left-wing politics. I grew up in the middle of that, so I'm used to being a fish out of water."
Zucker, who has made over $20,000 in contributions to Democrats over the years, turned to the right later in life.
"It happened gradually for me," said Zucker, director of the original "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun" films. "After 9/11, I saw the reactions of both parties. The Democrats were saying, 'How is this our fault? How are we to blame for this?' And the Republicans were saying, 'This is pure evil, and we need to fight this now.' It made me rethink things."
