Kidman condemns Hamas, Hezbollah | Herald SunNothing on this in USA Today. Or CNN. Or MSNBC.NICOLE Kidman has made a public stand against terrorism.
The actress, joined by 84 other high-profile Hollywood stars, directors, studio bosses and media moguls, has taken out a powerfully-worded full page advertisement in today's Los Angeles Times newspaper.It specifically targets "terrorist organisations" such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine.
However, Jon Benet Ramsey's front page news. Gee, isn't it peculiar that a 10-year old murder's getting front-page headlines in the US, but 85 high-profile Hollywood stars going against terror doesn't even rate highly enough to be mentioned ANYWHERE in the day's coverage?
Or even rate a mention in the LA Times itself?
To be fair, I'm simply searching the above sites for "Kidman". Perhaps there's some other search terms I should be using? And this IS supposedly in tomorrow's paper - so how did the Aussie paper find out about it before it went to print?
Something else that's odd... since when do Australian papers scoop US papers? Is that what things are boiling down to? We have to go outside the country to get positive news on the WoT? Why didn't this make the radar?
J.
Comments (2)
I was surprised.
Also, Bernie Mac,
Pat Sajak, Danny Devito, were welcome surprises to me.
I expected Bruce Willis, Gary Sinise,
Sam Raimi, and many of the others.
Some names I didn't recognize.
Michael Douglas was a small surprise, but he is Jewish.
It should've gotten alot of coverage, I agree.
Fox had some coverage, but I expected that.
BTW, Adam Sandler is donating 400 playstations to Israeli kids who hadtheir homes hit by Hezbollah rockets.
I'm not a big fan of his acting, but that was a good thing to do.
Posted by Ben USN (ret) | August 21, 2006 7:26 AM
Posted on August 21, 2006 07:26
Nicole Kidman's always struck me as being pretty intelligent (Tom Cruise being an exception) but that may be more from the parts I've seen her in. Certainly she's been much more, um, 'restrained' in her actions than the normal Hollywood star these days. I'd like to think there's a good mind there to go with the looks.
I'm also thinking at least SOME of the folks in Hollywood are looking at the entire situation and realzing that even if it takes decades that the war against radical Islam has to be fought, and fought sucessfully. And they need to throw their weight behind that struggle instead of being politically trendy.
J.
Posted by JLawson | August 21, 2006 9:43 PM
Posted on August 21, 2006 21:43