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...film was Un Americano a Roma, a modest comedy about a young Italian besotted with all things American. It expressed the hope of two paisan producers to make films that appealed both to the local market and the American, often by pairing one of their star spouses with a Hollywood name. Thus Mangano played Penelope (and Circe) to Kirk Douglas' Ulysses; Loren was the honey to Anthony Quinn's Attila. Quinn, in Federico Fellini's La Strada, was the circus brute to the sad clown played by Fellini's wife, Giuletta Masina. Europa 51, directed by Roberto Rossellini, starred...
...Washington's fascination with Hollywood is nothing new, and has always been mutual. Bill Clinton's candidacy and presidency - like John F. Kennedy's 40 years before - was closely tied to Hollywood, first because of his old pals, producers Linda Bloodworth and Harry Thomason, and later through friendships with industry bigshots like Spielberg, Barbra Streisand and others...
...Hillary Clinton is likely to draw on those friendships for her own possible Presidential bid."People in Hollywood who care about changing the world see people in Washington as a way to do it,"observes Marge Tabankin, Streisand's political guru and former director of the now-disassembled Hollywood Women's Political Committee (HWPC), of which Streisand was a founder."And people on the Washington axis recognize that Hollywood has been an incredibly generous zip code for political giving. They view celebrity as a megaphone which can be useful...
...most potential candidates, a trip out west will include a visit with a couple of the industry's notable Democratic activists - producer Norman Lear, Warner Brothers Entertainment President Alan Horn, actor-director Rob Reiner, George Clooney, to name a few. There will be breakfasts, private get-togethers in Hollywood homes, parties to recruit younger Hollywood supporters and bigger fundraisers. Just which candidate most of the Hollywood crowd winds up back remains to be seen, but one thing is fairly certain: Streisand will sing. "Barbra has been performing for every major Democratic candidate for almost 20 years," says Tabankin. After...
...fact that a movie satirizing anti-Semitism opened around the same time that Hizballah launched a campaign of protests to bring down the Lebanese government is surely mere coincidence, and not evidence of a subtle Hollywood-Jewish plot to undermine the Islamist group's anti-Israel agenda. Nevertheless, it remains remarkable that Borat played in Lebanon...