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Eminentoes
Angelinas Rush in Where Fools Fear to Tread
Hoping for a photo-op at the Lyubyanka.
Do you know the joke about the ventriloquist who was having trouble landing gigs so he went into business as a medium? His first customer was a wealthy widow who wished to converse with her dear departed mate, Clarence. He assured her this could be managed without a hitch. She seemed eager to proceed but first she asked the price for this venture into the metaphysical realms.
“One hundred dollars for a regular conversation. And for two hundred I can do it while drinking a glass of water.”
In the age of Lindsay Lohan and her ditzy ilk, I often think these celebs cannot utter a single intelligible word while their managers are having that drink of water. Presumably this is by design. The agents, managers and producers have their turfs staked out well in advance and they prefer a malleable mall rat to a bright person brimming with actual opinions. Some smart ones slip through the cracks; the blockers cannot maintain the eternal vigilance which is the price of their liberties.
So it is that the trajectory to Number One is with a dumb-dumb bullet. Which in a way is a relief to us audience types as well. We enjoy a covenant of sorts with the performers. They can share their recipes, skin care tips and saccharine left-wing orthodoxies in press conferences and on talk shows in return for supplying us with light entertainment in music and film. Leave the penetrating insights to serious literature which for the hours we can devote with full attention to culture and the humanities. When a Jane Fonda shows up in Hanoi or a Sean Penn in Saddam’s Baghdad, they have crossed the line into flagrantly seditious behavior forcing us to take them seriously. And nothing could be more mutually detrimental.
The latest instance of such a leap out of the box into the loony bin has been taken by the very talented Angelina Jolie. Her father, Jon Voight, is one of the rare outspoken conservatives in Hollywood, but the daughter is of a quirkier breed. Fair enough as long as she is advocating for flavor-of-the-month liberal causes. This time she has gone too far. She invited the deported Russian spy AKA Anna Chapman to attend the Moscow premiere of Jolie’s new movie, Salt. Apparently the character resembles Ms. Chapman in trying to balance spy craft with career obligations or some such nonsense.
Amazingly this has been widely reported in news and gossip sources with no sense that there are moral implications. The producers of the film earnestly announced an effort to locate the elusive Ms. Chapman to tender the invitation. Alas they could not track her down; perhaps those pesky KGB buffoons had not yet signed off on her debriefing. Imagine the brutishness to prevent a young woman from attending a gala media event as a movie star’s personal guest. Next thing you know they will deprive Lubyanka prisoners of their Elton John CDs.
Is it just me, or is there another sensible person on the planet who thinks we should not be inviting Russian spies to American cultural events as conquering heroes? It may be fodder for Page Six in the New York Post to exploit some outwardly attractive features of a captured spy, but that should not transform her into a likable hail-maiden-well-met to be added to the A list.
Perhaps it is uncouth to mention, but spying for a foreign government against the United States is an act of treason. It endangers the lives of our citizens and our military, with implications also for allied countries This is not cute. It is not a yuppified version of playing Clue at a cocktail party. It is not recreation for some sweet young thing looking to put charge into her vanilla suburban existence. This is not a game and those who play it play for keeps. The thirty-pieces-of-silver is not the new twenty-questions. If we have to swap spies and throw the fish back into the sea, that does not make them less poisonous. Shame on you, Angelina, for making prettiness a higher virtue than patriotism.
This reminds me of the old lady trying to park her Cadillac. She is about to back into the one space available on the block. Suddenly some young fellow grabs the spot ahead of her by driving forward into the space from behind. “Sorry, lady, that’s what you can do when you are young and quick.”
She calmly continues to back up, smashing his car into smithereens. “Sorry, kid, that’s what you can do when you are old and rich.”
About the Author
Jay D. Homnick, commentator and humorist, is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator. He also writes for Human Events. Here he speaks at the Rally for Religious Freedom in Miami on June 8, 2012.
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drudge ette obama| 8.5.10 @ 6:28AM
All I need to know about Jolie is that she was a cutter and had long term affairs with men and women. She is probably trying to recreate that Sandra Bulloch/Scarlett Johannson fake kiss scene with the Russian spy invite. Saavy, but ohh so strange.
Toto| 8.5.10 @ 9:07AM
Salt is an espionage movie about a CIA agent who is accused of being a Russian spy.
Isn't it a fact that the U.S. has planted spies nearly everywhere? Everyone takes it for granted that both Russia and the U.S. employ spies.
What's the big deal of Angelina inviting a Russian spy, who has been treated as a beautiful celebrity in the media, to the premiere of her movie?
Again, much ado about practically nothing.
Brian Richard Allen | 8.5.10 @ 11:05PM
.... Isn't it a fact that the U.S. has planted spies nearly everywhere? ....
Used to be.
And then came the recidivist, treasonous, lying, looting, thieving, mass-murdering, co-serial-rapist Billy-Bubbah Blythe ("Cli'ton") Crime Family, the Jamie Gorelicker "wall" -- and the willfully-subversive politicization of America's every intelligence agency.
And now it's a fact only that those agencies have planted spies nearly everywhere there is anything to be learned about an America-loving constitutionalist -- and absolutely everywhere there is a "Democrat's" arse in need of cover.
Andrea 98| 8.5.10 @ 1:03PM
"Saavy, but ohh so strange"?
Strange? Get over it! I'm all for affairs between women and women and men and men. In fact, I, a beautiful brunette, am in the midst of a beautiful relationship with another beautiful brunette.
"Love the one you're with" is my song, and I sing it beautifully.
Ruffslitch| 8.5.10 @ 3:14PM
Just remember: you won't be young and beautiful forever. You had better work on your character in the meantime so there will be some substance left when your looks fade.
Katharine| 8.5.10 @ 5:00PM
Do you really think "love" is the correct term here?
Alan Brooks| 8.5.10 @ 2:36PM
I shit you not:
"UPI
Mao's grandson says he wants to pursue career in politics"
Alan Brooks| 8.5.10 @ 2:41PM
"In fact, I, a beautiful brunette, am in the midst of a beautiful relationship with another beautiful brunette. "
It will merely give you pleasure, not happiness. Besides, Andrea; though ugliness goes all the way to the core, beauty is still only skin-deep.
Robert Pinkerton| 8.5.10 @ 7:04AM
If Lubyanka prison is not as downright infamous as Auschwitz or 38 Prinz Albrecht Strasse in Hitler's Berlin, then it none the less ought to be.
Appleby| 8.5.10 @ 7:14AM
One more rich yuppie who thinks inside the box where everyone agrees with her and money and celebrity trump everything.
Radegunda| 8.5.10 @ 4:45PM
Actually, she has not always been inside the box in her political pronunciamentos. Sometimes she has sounded relatively level-headed (emphasis on sometimes and relatively). But this weird gesture does not get my sympathy.
Joe D.| 8.5.10 @ 9:35AM
Sorry, Jay, that is what you get from these Hollywood leftists. They think because the public has been dumb down to Communist/Socialist that they can say or do anything that would be considered treasonist before. We let them out of the box after the McCarthy 1950s and we just got more and worse behavior. Send them all to Europe, Cuba, Russia, China or Venezuela.
Clinton nee Publius| 8.5.10 @ 10:38AM
Natalie Main
Matt Damon
Jane Fonda
Sean Penn
Tom Hanks
All award winning artists who are no longer able to command an audience.
Seek| 8.5.10 @ 12:02PM
In your dreams. How many movies have you starred in lately?
I've been saying it for years: "Hollywood" is to the envious Right what "rich corporations" are to the envious Left. A target of rage that masquerades as moral virtue.
CharlieEcho| 8.5.10 @ 12:47PM
Yes, and how many takes do they get to be foolish?
Brian B| 8.5.10 @ 1:10PM
Saying it for years doesn't make you correct. Perhaps it just makes you repetitive.
Occam's Tool| 8.5.10 @ 3:52PM
Sorry, I'm a Conservative, but Tom Hanks starred in Toy Story 3, which is a box office smash. Now.
A pen| 8.5.10 @ 1:07PM
I suspect most of these performers think their skills match real life. Actually, as far as treason goes, they are quite well skilled just short one little thing, opportunity.
Paul Revere| 8.5.10 @ 1:17PM
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Margie| 8.8.10 @ 11:00PM
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Purple Lips| 8.5.10 @ 1:31PM
Come one, folks. The Russians are soooo yesterday. No one fears the Russians anymore, just as no one any longer buys the books of Clancy or Len Deighton.
If the good people of this nation contnue to protest and complain about the Cordoba Mosque, the next thing you know some washed up actor will use it to re-launch his career. Heck, the Dixie Chicks will be doing benefit concerts in Lower Manhatten doning hijabs and burkas! And Angelina will gladly go off to some harem to protest the zenophobic rubes.Heck, we could be stampeded with dozens of nealry broke 40 and 50 something entertainers protesting "Amerika" on behalf of the Religion of Peace. Some may, as a show of solidarity, publicly convert to Islam! It will be quite the spectacle!. But don't expect any gay entertainers to join. For obvious reasons, they will take a pass on all of the fun. Sorry Elton.
Someone needs to call Angelina's press agent and tell him the Russians are yesterday's news. They're pussy cats compared to the real men of Islam. Angelina get your butt down to the Financial District before someone else steals the show!
AliceL.| 8.5.10 @ 1:59PM
Angelina - just another sapphic homewrecker who picks up kids as if she were ordering from Chinese takeout.
mike ames| 8.5.10 @ 2:32PM
She is a tremendously talented actor as is her father. Let's give her some time and she may come around. Stupid is as stupid does.
Nancy in NC| 8.5.10 @ 2:54PM
Yeah, well, too bad she didn't get any common sense.
Hollywoodies made billions and then trash the country that allowed them the opportunity, and look down at those who bought the tickets.
Seek| 8.5.10 @ 5:24PM
Name me one studio exec, producer or director who "looks down" at his audiences. And if Americans supposedly are so offended by today's films, why do we see them, spending "billions" in the process? You obviously have no idea how film gets made.
BackToBasics| 8.6.10 @ 2:33AM
I watched about half of the first "Tomb Raider" movie. The reason why I did not finish it was that is was almost painful to watch such poor acting with tall the glaring looks she gave that somehow was supposed to show "machismo-like" presence or maybe the looks were a fill-in for a lack of dialogue. And the fight sequences were poorly choreographed. She did not look athletic enough or fast enough to pull off the moves she was attempting.
Interesting how feminists and week liberal men seek to portray normal and strong men as Machismo-tyes or dumb-brute neanderthals. Yet in movie after movie, when a script is made for a woman to show us just how the feminist-types should act it is always as a machsimo-type woman who can get as angry or swear as much as the best of them and usually can knock out white men with a single punch.
Maybe she is better in other movies but after seeing that, I have not been in any rush to see others.
BackToBasics| 8.6.10 @ 2:35AM
Correction - all the glaring looks
The Spiritual Arc | 8.5.10 @ 4:40PM
I don't see anything wrong with Angelina's invite. Further the rich and famous enjoy perks that you and I don't!
Mike| 8.5.10 @ 5:22PM
Who cares what Jolie thinks, says or does? She is a mediocre actress who has starred in junk, crap movies and she is in a relationship with the most over-rated actor ever. That guy can't act his way out of a paper bag.
And, she is not that good looking.
BackToBasics| 8.6.10 @ 2:57AM
I've noticed that often the very brash and / or outspoken women in Hollywood look nice when they are young but lose the good looks quickly. Their hard demeanor shows in their eyes which grow cold and that is wehre 50% of the beauty comes from. After awhile the physical features look statuesque and the eyes are still cold.
Liveaboard| 8.5.10 @ 6:11PM
Sean Penn?? Jane Fonda?? Jolie is not in the same league as those traitorous scumbags. If she wants to shmooze with Chapman, who cares? What did Chapman really do? And, Chapman is no Aldrich Ames; now there's a real spy.
Jeremiah| 8.5.10 @ 8:20PM
Hate to disappoint anyone, but I have a soft spot for Angelina Jolie. I respect how she has adopted those children and doesn't seem to use them as public props for her image (which is not to say they never are with her publicly). She was wild - probably still has a few wild hairs, but it strikes me she really cares about her children.
Though I used to really dislike Paris Hilton, I became a bit of a fan of hers after that commercial parody she did - saying smarter things about energy than either McCain or Obama ever mustered. Yeah, I know it was scripted for her, but that she did it made me wonder if she is really a vacuous airhead - or a very shrewd woman who is parodying the vacuousness of pop culture and making a mint in the process.
I adore Jodie Foster who is a brilliant artist and woman of substance. Don't know her politics and don't much care - what I care about is that she doesn't waste oxygen hectoring us or blabbing ignorantly about things she has no particular expertise in. A brilliant artist who hones her art and minds her own business while expecting us to mind ours. What a concept! Wish it would catch on in Hollywood.
This from a man who busted a gut at the subversive movie "Team America." You gotta love the Film Actors Guild (which the movie substituted for Screen Actors Guild - SAG - you do the alternate acronym).
America is the Blue States| 8.5.10 @ 10:52PM
You people are fucked. Please move to the aisle with the Red States and secede! Go! Go! Go! You sick facist, racist, sexist, homophobic, bigots!
Citizen-Comrade| 8.7.10 @ 10:44PM
I just knew we'd finally hear from Brad.
John Doe| 8.5.10 @ 10:54PM
The American Spectator = A stupid blog for delusional fat, white, racist, bigoted, sexist, homophobic, Nazis who should be killed.
Shirley Sherrod| 8.5.10 @ 10:55PM
I'm gonna kill your mother fucking white asses.
What is 2 + 2?| 8.5.10 @ 10:57PM
Stupid mother fuckers! I do not break for you stupid inbreeds. Watch out! I will run over you! Blood everywhere! "Jesus's blood."
Jeremiah| 8.6.10 @ 1:38PM
Uh-oh, the Tolerant, Loving Left is joining us again. (For those of you who don't know, Tolerant, Loving Left is not a description of them - it's their gang name)
Mike| 8.6.10 @ 8:50PM
If you US government wasn't completely insane, it might be meaningful to consider spies a threat. The threat from spies is not even measurable compared to the threat from the government.
Citizen-Comrade| 8.7.10 @ 10:46PM
Come on Brad, we've already heard from you once already. Give it a rest.