April 14, 2004
SAY IT AIN'T SO, SALMA:
Abortion Advocates Struggle to Find Marchers, Look to Celebs for Help (Steven Ertelt, April 13, 2004, LifeNews.com)
Pro-abortion groups are having a tough time finding enough abortion advocates across the country to attend their national march that will be held in less than two weeks. To get more people to the event, they have enlisted the support of top Hollywood celebrities to help them.Leading groups like Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and the ACLU have spent over a year touting the April 25 march, but are now relying on leading television and movie stars and pop music icons to get more people to the nation's capital. [...]
The coalition of Hollywood celebrities backing the pro-abortion March includes:
Margie Adam
Christina Aguilera
Jennifer Aniston
Curtis Armstrong
Elaine Aronson
Bea Arthur
Ed Asner
Kevin Bacon
Alec Baldwin
William Baldwin
Meredith Baxter
Shari Belafonte
Maria Bello
Polly Bergen
Thora Birch
Amy Brenneman
Betty Buckley
Jessica Capshaw
Lynda Carter
Stockard Channing
Jill Clayburgh
Kate Clinton
Glenn Close
Cindy Crawford
Sheryl Crow
Alan Cumming
Tyne Daly
Blythe Danner
Kristin Davis
Ossie Davis
Dana Delany
Laura Dern
Ellen DeGeneres
Ani DiFranco
Illeana Douglas
Denise Dowse
Fran Drescher
Kirsten Dunst
David Eigenberg
Hector Elizondo
Emme
Eve Ensler
Giancarlo Esposito
Melissa Etheridge
Morgan Fairchild
Edie Falco
Frances Fisher
Calista Flockhart
Jane Fonda
Bonnie Franklin
Janeane Garofalo
Ana Gasteyer
Indigo Girls
Annabeth Gish
Whoopi Goldberg
Lauren Graham
Maggie Gyllenhaal
LisaGay Hamilton
Ben Harper
Ed Harris
Salma Hayek
Marg Helgenberger
Isabella Hofmann
Helen Hunt
Amy Jo Johnson
Kathryn Joosten
Ashley Judd
Catherine Keener
Carole King
Swoosie Kurt
Christine Lahti
Sanaa Lathan
Sharon Lawrence
Lisa Loeb
Amy Madigan
Natalie Maines
Wendie Malick
Joshua Malina
Camryn Manheim
Frances McDormand
Ewan McGregor
Marilyn McIntyre
Sarah McLachlan
Moby
Demi Moore
Julianne Moore
Alanis Morissette
Kathy Najimy
Alyson Palmer
Joe Pantoliano
Mary-Louise Parker
Adrian Pasdar
Pink
Martha Plimpton
Doris Roberts
Paul Rudd
Susan Sarandon
Campbell Scott
Kyra Sedgwick
Martin Sheen
Cybill Shepherd
SONiA
Fisher Stevens
Gloria Steinem
Julia Stiles
Corky and Mike Stoller
Sharon Stone
Amber Tamblyn
Mary Testa
Charlize Theron
Uma Thurman
Heather Tom
Stanley Tucci
Kathleen Turner
Ted Turner
Sarah Weddington
Audrey Wells
Bradley Whitford
Alfre Woodard
Thom Yorke
Amy Ziff
Elizabeth Ziff
It's mostly the usual suspects, but one does wish Ben Harper weren't supporting the Death March. Posted by Orrin Judd at April 14, 2004 2:41 PM
How cool is this: One more reason to hate Fran Drescher and Alanis Morissette?
Posted by: Chris at April 14, 2004 3:06 PMEwan MacGregor -- is he even a U.S. citizen? Oh yeah -- citizen of hollywoodland.
Posted by: Twn at April 14, 2004 3:24 PMWhat exactly is a SONiA?
Posted by: brian at April 14, 2004 3:30 PMDon't worry, Our Betters in the media will report the turnout as millions upon millions upon millions....
Posted by: Ken at April 14, 2004 3:55 PMKathy Najimy? *Peggy Hill* is a latter-day Margaret Sanger? Oy vay.
Posted by: Random Lawyer at April 14, 2004 4:10 PMDamn. They got Illeana. AND the Pink Ranger. CURSE THEM!
Posted by: Just John at April 14, 2004 5:22 PMRandom Lawyer,
"Kathy Najimy? *Peggy Hill* is a latter-day Margaret Sanger? Oy vay."
There's a great bit in Michael Graham's Redneck Nation, where he describes interviewing Najimy in a Manhatten restaurant for a magazine article in the mid-1990s. She spent half the interview hectoring him about what he was eating (a piece of chicken) and the wonderful merits of vegitarianism!
So I guess killing chickens is bad, but killing kids is OK.
Ed
Posted by: Ed Driscoll at April 14, 2004 7:00 PMSorry to see Stanley Tucci. And yeah, an awful lot of Canadians and other non-Americans.
And why on Earth would Ellen DeGeneres care?
Posted by: jsmith at April 14, 2004 7:28 PMI'd always thought Bea Arthur and Ed Asner were the same person.
Posted by: Carter at April 15, 2004 12:53 AMEwan McGregor is Scottish, of course. What else with a name and accent like that?
I don't know how it works in the US, but here in the UK, once a celebrity endorses a political campaign it actually reduces the credibility of that campaign in direct proportion to the fame of the celebrity. Especially as they're almost exclusively champagne socialists and other bleeding hearts.
The natural reaction is: 'what the hell do you know about abortion/iraq/terrorism? - get back to playing your guitar, silly boy.'
(But then, you lot did elect Conan the Barbarian to make crucial political and economic decisions for you, so I have to admit I don't have a clue how your voters think.)
Posted by: Brit at April 15, 2004 4:37 AMActually, Brit, "Conan the Barbarian" holds a graduate degree in Business and made most of his fortune in real estate -- the movie money just provided seed money. The guy's got a rep from his young-and-crazy bodybuilding days of succeeding in whatever he puts his mind to do. He's also established a reputation in his business dealings as a fair dealer, but don't even think of trying to rip him off or cheat him on a deal.
Posted by: Ken at April 15, 2004 12:29 PMI wouldn't dream of it.
In case he came after me with his broadsword.
Posted by: Brit at April 16, 2004 4:06 AMAh, Martin Sheen. The guy who claims to be a Catholic.
Posted by: pchuck at April 16, 2004 10:57 AMI can't believe that Britney Spears is allowing Christina Aguilera to appear in a public venue without her.
Posted by: Robert Duquette at April 16, 2004 12:43 PM