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Redford fears Bush censorship
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Jul 30, 2003 17:13 PDT
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Redford fears Bush censorship
Plus: Under Angelina Jolie’s skin; Matt Drudge’s secrets
With Ashley Pearson - MSNBC
Jan. 23 — Robert Redford doesn’t count himself among all the
president’s men. The actor-director recently blasted the climate of
censorship under the Bush administration, and warned of these “dangerous
times” that smack of McCarthyism.
SPEAKING AT his Sundance Film Festival, Redford said that the patriotic
fervor in post-9/11 Hollywood has led to censorship in movies.
“The early signs are this administration could go further,
shutting down information, not allowing certain truths to get out, ”
Redford said. “And all you’ve got to do is look at history to see what
that led to. The McCarthy era.” Redford has also been a vocal critic of
Bush’s environmental policies.
Redford also discussed how the ads for his flick “The Last
Castle” were changed.
They originally had an upside-down flag, which was removed for
fear that it would be deemed unpatriotic, according to the Ottawa
Citizen, and Redford said that some of his most famous films — including
“The Candidate,” “All the President’s Men” and “Three Days of the
Condor” — in which he plays a rogue CIA agent — probably would have been
censored if they were made today.
“Freedom of expression is our most precious virtue,” the actor
told the Citizen. “We have to be on guard not to be careless with it.”
How does Matt Drudge get his stories? Fans and foes of the
Internet gossip will be intrigued by an exchange of e-mails between
Drudge and an alleged source, which have been posted at
www.weaselsearch.com. The info comes courtesy of a messy lawsuit filed
by author John Connelly against a former researcher who confessed to
leaking info to Drudge. The e-mails discuss in sometimes-salty language
a “non-disparaging clause” Drudge had with former employer News Corp.
and a purported deal in which Drudge will link to articles by the
researcher if she’ll hand over Connelly’s manuscript, which supposedly
contained damaging info on Drudge. . . .
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