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Festivito

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31. They're not. They're capitalist sponges rather than squeezers.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 11:39 AM
Feb 2013

They absorb money from a liquid population. They want MANY to have excess money. When excess money is tied up with a few, they might make an astounding wage once or twice. It's not really this simplistic, they do want more than money, they want that approbation of audience or high sales figures. For the few of them that could make more just pleasing the ultra-rich, they would miss the applause of the MANY.

So, they are a little left of capitalist sponges.
Little left of status quo, but loving the applause for capitalizing on their skills.
Little left for the need of safety nets. They're one accident away from needing it.
B-grade actors like Reagan need a union.
(But, selling out to the rich is far more profitable if you're in a position to capitalize on your position.)

It's not a uniform left. Some are too far left for their own good, as some are too far right for their own good.

They sound like more than they represent, after all their profession gives them amplification of whatever they say. The hard-right then characterizes them as far left.

So, it ends up being themselves with a bull horn against a think-tank army of bull horns.

And, that's America.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, big exception (billionaire). TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #1
there are actually lots of exceptions cali Feb 2013 #2
They come up more and more from places like Yale flamingdem Feb 2013 #3
Ronald Reagan. Though he did start out more liberal. cali Feb 2013 #4
He was our only President to have been a union organizer Recursion Feb 2013 #6
There was an interesting thread here years ago about conservative comedians and how rare they are Recursion Feb 2013 #5
And PJ O'Rourke... once upon a time. n/t lumberjack_jeff Feb 2013 #15
You must have known ol' PJ in grade school tularetom Feb 2013 #29
National Lampoon had some seriously funny stuff. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2013 #32
Yep, you're right I'd forgotten about that tularetom Feb 2013 #33
I don't know about that. If anything, I think the opposite is true RZM Feb 2013 #7
I was thinking of the powerhouse actors: Affleck, Asner, Clooney, Judd, Sarandon, Damon... Bucky Feb 2013 #8
I think it has more to do with the fact that they are exposed to the arts community Bjorn Against Feb 2013 #9
agree treestar Feb 2013 #11
More people will go see a movie where the little guy succeeds. What if alfredo Feb 2013 #24
Very true, and that was at least part of the reason Atlas Shrugged bombed so badly Bjorn Against Feb 2013 #25
That's it. alfredo Feb 2013 #28
The first thing an actor or comedian has to do is sell himself/herself to the audience. People alfredo Feb 2013 #26
Creativity is not economics or class. It is formlessness, barriers/boundaries-busting, open, . UTUSN Feb 2013 #10
I notice that the form of "liberalism" pushed by Hollywood rarely seems to threaten the status quo. Romulox Feb 2013 #12
Precisely Puzzledtraveller Feb 2013 #14
Guilt and fear of envy. Puzzledtraveller Feb 2013 #13
They also have to play and create stories about ordinary people. Kablooie Feb 2013 #16
acting, at its core, requires EMPATHY. To be a good actor.... antigop Feb 2013 #17
I also think they realize how LUCK is a factor. Someone somewhere along the way antigop Feb 2013 #18
Unfortunately that doesn't seem to apply for NFL players. DebJ Feb 2013 #19
You cannot be a good actor if... OldEurope Feb 2013 #20
Also because usually actors start out in Drama club/Glee which is very LGBT friendly, move to LA JaneyVee Feb 2013 #21
They create fantasy worlds, they don't live in them? on point Feb 2013 #22
Not only that, all the ones who are in the mainstream belong Cleita Feb 2013 #23
It all boils down to your world view ... Me/ mine or the greater good. pkdu Feb 2013 #27
"One reason Hollywood millionaires are so liberal is that most of them had to earn their way up" HiPointDem Feb 2013 #30
They're not. They're capitalist sponges rather than squeezers. Festivito Feb 2013 #31
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