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Al Gore's Flatulence Flick James Hirsen
THE LEFT COAST REPORT
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Looks like the practical joke feud between "Ocean's 'Whatever'" stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts is getting out of hand. The Enquirer recently reported that, when Roberts made her debut on Broadway, an assistant showed up at her dressing room just moments before curtain time.
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The assistant delivered to Roberts several pages of "script rewrites" for the actress to quickly learn. It turns out that the special delivery was all a bit of Clooney tomfoolery, but it caused a Julia high jinks to be set in motion. After returning from his trip to the Darfur region, Clooney received an invitation to speak about his journey to a select group at a New York hotel. When Clooney took to the podium and looked out at his audience, there to greet him were one hundred people wearing clown masks. One of the clowns jumped up and ripped off the mask, only to reveal the face of the "Pretty Woman" herself. "Gotcha!" Roberts gleefully shouted. The Left Coast Report wonders if a reality show might be in the works – a Clooney-Roberts version of the "Itchy & Scratchy Show."
2. High Taxes Equals Hollywood Outsourcing Economics has a way of modifying everyone's behavior, Hollywood libs included. According to FilmLA, the nonprofit corporation that handles film permits for Los Angeles, the number of TV pilots that have been shot in the Los Angeles area so far this year is 23 percent lower than during the comparable period last year. Thirty-nine of this year's 120 television pilots have been filmed outside of Los Angeles. FilmLA President Steve MacDonald explained that the survey's results challenge the assumption that most pilots would be shot in Los Angeles. "Aggressive [tax] incentives from other jurisdictions have now succeeded in attracting almost a third of the season's pilot productions," MacDonald said. The production shift during this pilot season has cost Los Angeles thousands of jobs and as much as $70 million in production spending. MacDonald warned, "Without a significant response, we're not likely to retain a majority share for much longer." The Left Coast Report suspects that lower taxes for all those rich entertainment corporations are right around the Hollywood hypocritical corner.
3. Did Charlie Gibson Insult Africa? The ink on Charlie Gibson's deal wasn't even dry yet. Gibson had just started his new gig of replacing Elizabeth Vargas as the new permanent anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight" when he found himself under fire. Gibson had made some comments in New York magazine that seemed to suggest issues affecting Africa are somehow lacking in newsworthiness. Referring to NBC's Brian Williams, who recently reported from several African countries with activist/rocker Bono at his side, Gibson said, "That's because of Katrina; you saw him [Williams] going down there, now he's in Africa. I don't know why you do that. Why the hell do you go to Africa? It's certainly an interesting choice. We'll do travel, when it warrants." You may recall that NBC also sent "Dateline" co-host Ann Curry to Africa to interview Angelina Jolie. In a subsequent interview with The Associated Press, Gibson called his remarks a "jesting reference" to an e-mail he had written to "Nightly News" producer John Reiss. "I'm literally puzzled as to what they were doing. It is certainly worth traveling there. There are certainly problems to explore and issues to do. But I was curious as to why they would send Brian with Bono for a number of days for that program," Gibson said. Gibson blamed the dustup on a distortion of his statements by the reporter. "This guy, who I will never talk to again from New York magazine who is something of a snake, he took my quote and I think perverted the meaning of it to indicate in some way that I was insensitive to news from one of the five major continents in the world," Gibson told Chicago radio station WVON. A spokesperson for New York magazine said that, after reviewing the raw transcript of the interview, the magazine stands behind what was printed.
4. Brangelina Baby Sets Off Star Kids' Domain Grab Any celebrity baby who's anyone these days has got to have an Internet domain. It's a Hollywood tyke's must-have. But don't expect www.tom, dick or harry.com. Star kids' domains are more like Apple (Gwyneth Paltrow), Kal-el (Nicolas Cage), Brooklyn (David Beckham and his ex-Spice Girl wife Victoria), Bluebell Madonna (another former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell), Moxie Crimefighter (Penn Jillette), Phinnaeus (Julia Roberts), Pilot Inspektor (Jason Lee), Suri (Tom & Katie Cruise) and, of course, Shiloh (the Brangelina offspring). Following the Namibian birth of Shiloh Nouvel Jolie Pitt, lawyers at the Lavely & Singer law firm, which represents Angelina, apparently gave to her daughter a cyber gift of 24 registered domain names along with the extensions ".com," ".org," ".net" and ".info" (including the "shilohjolie," "shilohpitt," "shilohjoliepitt," "shilohnouveljolie," "shilohnouvelpitt" and "shilohnouveljoliepitt" variations). It appears that the Pitts and their legal counsel have heard about what happened to fellow thespians Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, whose daughter's name Suri was registered by some riffraff non-celebrity, who registered "suricruise.com." The Left Coast Report waits in breathless anticipation of future star kids' domains ButternutSquash.com, FleetForeman.biz, OliveOil.org, Cracklin'Rosie.net and Buttons-n-Bows.info.
5. Al Gore's Flatulence Flick America is responsible for global warming. At least that's what many of Hollywood's celebrity activists believe. That myopic perspective is the reason why former Vice President Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," is resonating so deeply with the Hollywood left and Democratic Party proletarians.
Laurie David, wife of "Curb Your Enthusiasm's" Larry David, produced the Gore-plugging vehicle. Like so many of the eco-chic in Tinseltown, Larry and Laurie drive Priuses to red carpet events and fly in non-hybrid, fuel swigging private jets to get back and forth between their multiple energy guzzling mansions. The lefty punditocracy has been lauding Gore for his relaxed candid manner and for not acting like a politician. Wrong on both counts. According to Gore, the world will end in 10 years unless we avail ourselves to the only hope we have to survive. Our saving grace is displayed throughout the film. From every left angle we see Gore thoughtfully looking at nature. We hear his exhortative tone, a single orator against the forces of enviro-evil. The answer to our earth shattering problems? Gore himself. Because no viable solutions are offered in the movie, the whiff of politics hangs in the theater air. Gore claims that his conclusions are scientific fact. But there's no empirical proof that the former veep's "The Day After Tomorrow" scenarios would or could be caused by global warming; no proof either that human activity is a substantial factor in altering something with as many variables as the climate. The film ignores myriad scientists who acknowledge that temperatures are rising but who question the proprietary and selectivity of climate change research that allegedly supports Gore's hypothesis. The film conveniently skips over the eight years that Gore was second in command. According to Gore's own exhibits, this was the time period in which the greatest warming trend occurred. Gore puts the blame squarely on Americans, conveniently ignoring the polluting habits of China, India and Mexico, which are exempt from the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty outlining pollution control for nations. With a straight face, Gore claims that China is "on the cutting edge of environmentalism," ahead of the United States. When "An Inconvenient Truth" opened in L.A., Larry David, Sharon Stone, David Duchovny and Garry Shandling were among the celebrities who turned out for their hero. In other greenhouse gassy celebrity news, longtime global warming lecturer and actor Leonardo DiCaprio is preparing his own documentary on the subject with an even more urgent title, "11th Hour." Keanu Reeves and Alanis Morissette are narrators of a feature film, "The Great Warming," which is being shown in selected theaters this month. And when Brad Pitt returns from Africa, he'll no doubt help to promote a series about eco-friendly architecture that he's narrating for PBS, "Design: e2." Meanwhile the Weather Channel has been predicting that this year six hurricanes will occur. What does it mean for us? The Left Coast Report figures we'll be hearing Gore attribute any and all disastrous weather to global warming, Pat Robertson claim it's all caused by sin and Howard Dean pin it on the GOP tax cuts.
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