You Could Knock Me Over With A Feather!
Well, I’ll be…in addition to being one of the most stunningly beautiful women on the planet, Nicole Kidman is…a supporter of Israel!
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.
“We the undersigned are pained and devastated by the civilian casualties in Israel and Lebanon caused by terrorist actions initiated by terrorist organisations such as Hezbollah and Hamas,” the ad reads.
“If we do not succeed in stopping terrorism around the world, chaos will rule and innocent people will continue to die.
“We need to support democratic societies and stop terrorism at all costs.”
A who’s who of Hollywood heavyweights joined Kidman on the ad.
The actors listed included: Michael Douglas, Dennis Hopper, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Danny De Vito, Don Johnson, James Woods, Kelly Preston, Patricia Heaton and William Hurt.
Directors Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael Mann, Dick Donner and Sam Raimi also signed their names.
Other Hollywood powerplayers supporting the ad included Sumner Redstone, the chairman and majority owner of Paramount Pictures, and billionaire mogul, Haim Saban.
I’ll tell you what, that almost brings a tear to my eye, so jaded have I become when it comes to Hollywood and politics.
God bless each and every one of them…
(with the tip of the hat to Instapundit)
Bravo for her and the rest of them … floored I am too.
Patricia Heaton is a rock-solid fellow traveler. She doesn’t get nearly enough props.
Well, Nicole is an Aussie first and foremost, and Mann is from Chicago. Douglas is like his father, who was a passionate supporter of Israel back in it’s early days. Woods was also on a flight that was suspected of serving as a pre – trial for many of the terrorists on 9/11, and Hopper has renounced many of the far – Left sympathies he espoused during his earlier days.
I guess “fellow traveler” is the wrong phrase. She’s actually all-in, as far as I know.
A little bit of trivia for you: Mel Gibson and Nicole Kidman, both famous Aussies, are actually native-born American citizens. Gibson was born in upstate New York, and Kidman was born in Hawaii; both had Australian parents and moved back to Australia as children.
Now how that resulted in one signing a letter in support of Israel and the other ranting about Jews starting all the wars, I’m not sure.
Guess it’s the old nature vs. nurture argument on that one. Gibson’s father is a notorious anti – Semitic loon, so there you go.