Most Actors Stink, But...

Let's face it. Most actors and actresses are pretty shallow. They are shallow in the behavior, their intellect and their political thinking. This crowd makes one nostalgic for the old studio days when actors were expected to shut up and act while the studios made the effort to make sure that the actor did not make himself look like a complete boob.
Gwyneth Paltrow makes a movie in which she plays the character of a country-western singer and all of a sudden she IS a country-western singer. Sally Fields and Meryl Streep play farmers' wives in movies and all of a sudden they are experts on farming. Alec Baldwin plays the Shadow and then IS the Shadow, and thus is an expert on politics.
Most actors, at least in their public pronouncements, are liberal. They may take that position because they are looking at the studio hands that feed them, but the writer suspects that the reason is because they do not think, They react. And because they have celebrity they think that their opinions have more weight than those who are not celebrities while, in fact, their opinions are as weightless as goose down.
One actor, and perhaps the greatest actor of our time, who is a thinker and who does not consider his opinions as a leader of the populace, is Robert Duvall. He has culturally and politically gone against the grain of Hollywood. An example would be Duvall's film The Apostle. Instead of taking cheap shots at Christian evangelists who sin and dwelling on the "hypocrisy" of the men, he portrayed man who fell and then found Grace. The same holds true for his film Tender Mercies.
Duvall is not only the best actor in the trade, but is probably the best man in the trade.
Read this for a better assessment than provided by this writer:
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Robert Duvall: American Through and Through

Social Networking

If you are into social networking and are an adherent of Facebook, this writer would suggest that you quit being part of that juggernaut.
We are all part of a machine, but there's no reason to be part of an overbearing and all too snoopy machine.
This writer would suggest that the reader, if he or she, is addicted to social networking, dump Facebook and move to a smaller social networking provider such as Bebo.com. Why leave your fate to Facebook when you, on a smaller social network provider, can decide what and where your information goes?

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The grandfather of your faithful correspondent, Sir Bill of Talaqhua, while not condemning moving pictures, was never a fan of actors. To put it short, his opinion of actors and actresses was summarized in the phrase, "They're whores." And this writer's father, the First Lord Nib, while not holding to quite the same opinion of actors and actresses, thought that they were "silly people."
This writer adheres to the opinion that actors are silly people who are paid a lot of money to do the same things that children do for free i.e., pretend that they are what they are not. And that they think that they, because of their fame are, therefore, Solons that we among the hoi polloi should pay attention to in their lives and opinions. Well, let's face it, most actors and actresses are pretty much dopes. They make their livings verbally reading the words of other people. It has long been a axiom among the opera crowd that opera singers are not especially endowed with the smarts. They sing well, but they are, usually, rather stupid.
Liam Neeson has proven that the opinion of the First Lord Nib and this Lord Nib are more true than the entertainment industry would like to be revealed.

Liam Neeson angers Narnia fans by suggesting Aslan is Mohammed - Telegraph

Mr. Neeson, while a pretty good actor and a man who at one time aspired to become a Roman Catholic priest, has shown himself to be a victim of politically correct thinking instead of good thinking. Apparently he did not aspire to be a hard Jesuit instead of a lazy parish pulpit filler.

The Copts in Egypt are still getting the sharp end of the stick:

Ennahar Online - Egypt: Copts fear the rise of Islam promoted by the State

And then there is this. A Christian woman face hanging for being a Christian woman:

Cleric offers reward to kill Christian woman - World news - South and Central Asia - Pakistan - msnbc.com

And this:

Somali Teenage Girl Shot to Death for Embracing Christ | Christianpost.com