[MeekandMild]

I would like to propose that we develop an award to be given to the politically active actor who is most involved in the deconstruction of Western Society. We could call it the:

John Wilkes Booth Memorial Award

(Named after the actor who has done the most to damage the US.)

This award would be announced with lots of hoopla and then given to whichever actor wins. We could announce it to the press and if the winner desires they could even be given a trophy. maybe, considering the nominees, a bronzed ham sandwich.


I would like to nominate the following:

Michael Moore

The Dixie Chicks

Martin Sheen

[Preacherman]

May I please add Alec Baldwin, Barbra Streisand and Susan Sarandon to the list? :fire:

[F=ma]

We could announce it to the press and if the winner desires they could even be given a trophy. maybe, considering the nominees, a bronzed ham sandwich.

Ha! How 'bout a statuette of Booth leaping from the balcony, or maybe of a barn with flames running up the side.

[gbelleh]

Janeane Garofalo, Rosie O'Donnel...

[Standing Wolf]

"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"

[cool45auto]

Robin Williams?

[David Scott]

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why anyone listens to or even cares about celebrities' political views. That's like going to your doctor for advice about your car's transmission. He may be a great doctor, but that don't make him a mechanic.

[gbelleh]

The reason people care is that it's frustrating to see these "entertainers" with no qualifications and very little knowlege on the subject of politics taking advantage of thier public recognition to further their own twisted, biased agenda based on a completely unrealistic world view.

They force their opinion on everyone because they can, even though no one asked them to.

That's like going to your doctor for advice about your car's transmission. He may be a great doctor, but that don't make him a mechanic.

That's what's so frustrating about it: We didn't ask for their opinion, they force it on us. Just like if you went to your doctor asking about gastroesophageal reflux disease, and he begins giving you unqualified advice about your transmission for no reason. :rolleyes:

[MeekandMild]

Yes, Robin is a definite!

Also:

Richard Gere

Paul McArtney

Sean Penn

Sharon Stone

Spike Lee

Lorna Luft

Larry Flynt

Mandy Patinkin.

Oprah

Michael Douglas


We may have to have male and female categories and maybe a category for Black entertainers?

Also, maybe in addition of the annual awards a lifetime achievement award, maybe going to Hanoi Jane? Rosie and Yoko Ono would also be contenders. For Rosie that would give her three chances to win. ;)

[Preacherman]

Just like if you went to your doctor asking about gastroesophageal reflux disease, and he begins giving you unqualified advice about your transmission for no reason.gbelleh, there are those who woud say that "gastroesophageal reflux disease" leads DIRECTLY to transmission - of a kind, anyway... :D

[Cal4D4]

How can we not remember the contributiions of some of the acting/political has beens like Ed Asner, Sally Struthers and of course, Jane Fonda. All candidates in their own right(left!).

[MeekandMild]

OK howabout these as fnal lists for the John Wilkes Booth Awards. Any further suggestions please, as to who you would exhange for instance canning Yoko Ono in favor of Boy George, et cetera.


Lifetime achievement dedicated to the disassembly of Western culture and the American way of life:

Ed Asner, Larry Flint, Hanoi Jane, Paul McArtney, Rosie O'Donnell, Yoko Ono, Martin Sheen, Barbara Streisand, Sally Struthers, Robin Williams


2003 Awardas the thespian who has urinated on our lifestyle most thoroughly this year:

Alec Baldwin, The Dixie Chicks, Janeane Garofalo, Richard Gere, Michael Moore, Oprah, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Sharon Stone


Now please remember these nominations are all secret so don't go telling the nominees lest they try to bribe the committee! :neener: Also, please no politicians. We know that Ted Kennedy has been playing Senator for many years, but he's not an actor.:rolleyes:

[Fed168]

How about the cow pie cluster with the silver shaft?

[MeekandMild]

For actions above and beyond the call of nature?

[Jim March]

The award should be a tin braying jacka$$.

[BrokenPaw]

That's what's so frustrating about it: We didn't ask for their opinion, they force it on us.

gbelleh, I have to disagree here. They don't force their opinions on us; we allow them to voice their opinions to us, by listening when they speak.

They have a right to speak their minds. We have a right to choose whether to listen or not to listen.

I think we can all agree that it's unseemly and crass for them to assume that having starred in a movie automatically lends wisdom, but we can't say that they're forcing us.

If you don't like what they have to say, turn them off. Don't go to their movies. Don't buy their DVDs. Don't watch their TV shows.

Nothing that Martin Sheen (for instance) has said in the entirety of his stint on The West Wing has ever even bothered my neurons, because I don't watch the show. Problem solved.

-BP

[CZ-75]

What has Sally Struthers done to deserve this honor?

I didn't know she had a career after "All in the Family." It was downhill to Feed the Children talking head, then to Home Career Institute spokesperson, until they realized that getting an ATTRACTIVE blond half her age with no "name recognition" worked just as well.

IMO, she doesn't have enough "celebrity" to qualify. Whatever she said, it was GOOD for her career, since she didn't have one. Sometimes any attention is good attention.

[Joe Demko]

I honestly expected somebody to object to naming the award after John Wilkes Booth. Haven't seen it here yet, but at TFL I remember reading more than once about Lincoln being the worst tyrant in American history. Those who subscribe to that view would probably consider Booth to be a hero.