Ron Silver ("Democrat" for Bush) says that his Career in Hollywood is over

[PROGRESSIVE1]

"Did anyone just see Ron Silver on O'Reilly? He was not only condemning the Radio City Hate Fest, but he was lavishing praise on the President.

O'Reilly told him that his career in Hollywood was over.

Then Silver started taking pot-shots at the Hollywood mentality.

He called the President, I believe, a visionary, and listed him amongst the great Presidents."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1170801/posts

Thank God that we will NEVER have to see his face corrupting Hollywood again.

[MikeG]

1. Gotta be the mushrooms.

[MrBenchley]

2. Fox couldn't get anyone to watch his last series

although they plugged it so hard and often during last year's World Series that one sportswriter said he thought Jorge Posada was going to guest star...

[MallRat]

25. HIS FATHER IS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY!

If you looked closely at the promo, you could actually see little bits of scenery stuck between Ron Silver's teeth.

-MR

[skypilot]

29. Wasn't that the series where...

...he plays a pornographer? Let's see how long it is before he starts spouting off about family values.

[kysrsoze]

48. O'Reilly was gently telling ol' Ron what everyone else already knows

He was a crappy actor. I hope he's shaved off that beard by now.

[Fovea]

3. And I will so miss him

in his bit roles as thugs and cretins.

[NYCGirl]

4. His career may be over, but it has nothing to do with his politics. (eom)

NT

[Feanorcurufinwe]

9. Darn, you beat me to it.

Now that is one unconvincing actor. Every character he plays seems exactly the same.

[BlueEyedSon]

5. "his Career in Hollywood is over".... let's hope!

[wicket]

6. Who is Ron Silver?

[Terran]

15. The Bad Guy in "Time Cop"

That's about the only film I can think of that he's been in.

[bullimiami]

22. 2nd rate crappy character actor.

Who cares. Its not his politics but the foul bigoted hate that he is spewing that is going to make him unwanted.
Hey he can always get a job with fox after all its a free country. Right?

[Terran]

35. Um, "who cares"?

The person who asked who he was, evidently. And I imagine it IS his politics, since I don't see any of what you're referring to as "foul bigoted hate"--the guy is just another Deluded Fool for Bush, that's all.

[Ripley]

23. Husband of Meg Ryan where she was alcoholic.

(When a Man Loves A Woman for Meg Ryan movie.)
Blue Steel bag guy with Jamie Lee Curtis as cop.
Evil alien in Arrival with Charlie Sheen.

[NYCGirl]

24. I think that was Andy Garcia in "When a Man Loves a Woman"

not Ron Silver

[Ripley]

27. Hey you're right!

They do look similar and I saw that on HBO a long time ago...

Thanks.

[NYCGirl]

31. Except that Andy Garcia is a much better actor.

:D

[Ripley]

37. Better looking too...

What was I thinking?! They're not similar at all! Silver is creepy, Garcia is HOT! :dunce:

[NYCGirl]

39. True!

:evilgrin:

[BlueStateGirl]

44. He was on the West Wing for a while. Playing a Dick Morris type

campaign strategist.

[Doctor_J]

7. And Rudy, and Pataki, and Bloomberg, and Whitman

It's OK to be a repug, Ron, just stop calling yourself a Dem.

[CWebster]

8. Good

He could always co-host with Dennis Miller.

That guy is a nasty little prick and he isn't funny at all.

[gasperc]

10. crybabies are popular in hollywood

they make lots of movies

[UdoKier]

38. I thought Silver was an idiot even when he was a Clintonite...

I remember him giving the radio jocks lots of fodder at Clinton's inauguation when he was standing right behind Clinton and he saw the traditional military jets flying over in formation. An angry Silver was clearly heard saying something like "what are those fucking jets doing over here? Then he grinned and said, Hey, those are our fucking jets now."

Once a clod, always a clod...

[tom_paine]

11. First off, his career is NOT over...just another Bushevik LIAR

Second, it's nice to see they picked someone familiar with being EVIL and following EVIL to be the EVIL Senator McComb in "Timecop".

No WONDER Silver did such a great job portraying that Human Spit Bucket.

Once again, a Bushevik Liar is projecting what they do onto others.

[HFishbine]

12. Pop Quiz: Why didn't Ron Silver serve in Vietnam?

Anybody?

[HFishbine]

34. Okee Doke, here's the answer

He claims he was doing intellegence gathering for the CIA in Asia and Russia.

http://www.skymovies.com/skymovies/article/0,,80000-11005848,00.html

[gauguin57]

13. OMG, has he ever gone to the dark side

He used to be so ... rational (well, sort of ... he used to use any podium he saw, at any awards show he was presenting at ... to discuss various liberal causes (as I recall, they were liberal).

WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?

I was just watching the West Wing (rerun) the other day, and thinking how great it would be if the campaign-manager character he played on there could be advising Kerry (his character was RUTHLESS, which is what we need right now).

Screw you, Ron.

[libertad]

16. bush* sent him overseas on some mission early in the misadministration,

on some publicity tour or something for bushco.

[Elidor]

20. He's a Likudnik

And he approves wholeheartedly of how America is being used to bully Israel's neighbors.

[HootieMcBoob]

26. This is unbelievable

Ron Silver was one of the founders of the Creative Coalition: http://www.thecreativecoalition.org/newsite/index.html

He was for a long time the President of Actor's Equity Association! If this is true this is really depressing. Man he was a great advocate to have on our side.

[Connie_Corleone]

14. What Career?

His career has been over for years. He's only been in some straight to video movies and failed TV series.

[gauguin57]

19. Sorry to say this about a DINO, but...

... he was wonderful on the West Wing. And that was pretty recent.

[Connie_Corleone]

21. He had a failed TV series after that

n/t

[VolcanoJen]

45. Yeh... he was playing the thinly-veiled Dick Morris character, right?

Is there such a thing as a "self-fulfilling prophesy" when selecting acting parts? }(

[displacedtexan]

17. This is what happens when your Kool-Aid glass is empty, Ron.

Shouldn't have accepted the Kool-Aid in the first place, Ron.

Have no fear. You can still work!

You could replace Lindsey Wagner in those Sleep Number/Select Comfort bed infomercials!

[ibegurpard]

18. being conservative=career over in Hollywood

sure...tell that to the California Governor.
:eyes:

[maggrwaggr]

28. yeah .... NOT. But if you're an angry fat ugly asshole like Silver

and a bad overweight actor to boot, then yeah, your career might be over.

[SoCalDem]

30. Dear Ron,

You started out as a "bit-player". Your "career" was over a loong time ago, because you were not good enough to emerge from the "pack".

Truth hurts, eh? Get over it...move on...get past it...deal with it..

[RFKHumphreyObama]

32. I had to look Ron Silver up at IMDB to remember who he was

And I still can't picture him in anything.

He must be the zillionth non-entity celebrity to endorse Bush.

[KharmaTrain]

33. He Had A Career?

I hadn't heard of this role player until he started showing up on wingnut talk shows a couple years ago. Yawn!!

He's a Neo-Con of the Pearle, Skunk Baxter ilk...and totally in a parallel universe.

How ironic these assholes bitch when a "Hollywood" type speak out, yet when it's a "Hollywood type" of their liking, then he's elevated to "star" status.

Spare me!

[bobbyboucher]

36. Still can't picture him, who is this Laaaooooooooser?

Reckognize the name, but no face yet.

[NYCGirl]

42. He was president of Actors' Equity for a while...

and was a good president. But that was when he still cared about working people...



(Edited to change my mistaken Screen Actors' Guild in the thread title for AEA — and I'm a member of both!)

[mondo joe]

40. What a WHINER. Schwarzenegger and Willis had careers

What a WHINER. Schwarzenegger and Willis had careers despite their right wing politics.

[terrya]

41. Oh, PLEASE. Not another of that "conservative blacklist in Hollywood" crap

I remember a while back when Bo Derek said that her career was over because of a mysterious "blacklist" of right wingers in Hollywood. Utter, complete bullshit. :-)

[VolcanoJen]

43. Hey, Ron? I saw "Timecop," and "Victoria's Closet."

Umm, your support of Bush had nothing to do with the death of your acting career.

That's a creative misplacement of blame, though. Good try!!

[HootieMcBoob]

46. You guys can trash talk all you want

but I think this is a bigger loss than you know. Silver was, whether you want to admit it or not, a very well respected actor. He was the President of the actor's union, Actor's Equity Association for a long time and was one of the leaders in championing progressive issues. That's why I find this so disturbing. He was a founding member of the Creative Coalition which has done a lot of lobbying for progressive issues over the last 14 years or so. I'm really disappointed to learn this.

[bobbyboucher]

49. Maybe he's eyeballing some "Dennis Miller" dollars.

There's a lot of money out there for your soul, if your willing to sell it.

[NYCGirl]

50. You're right, and I'm also disappointed...

what he does in his private political life is his business. But blaming his lack of work on a blacklist of right-wingers is quite silly.

[West Coast Democrat]

47. He's been making the news talkshow rounds for some time...

I remember seeing him on Larry King after 9-11 talking about how much he loved Bush* and that normally he was a Democrat or some such nonsense. How long does he plan to continue calling himself a Democrat?