How to Forgive Actors' Politics

How to Forgive Actors' Politics
Written by Jack Engelhard
Saturday, March 11, 2006

This is entirely personal, so much so that in the survey I took I was about the only one who agreed with me.

The question--to which everyone out there is invited to contribute--is whether actors ruin their images when they get real, or, go from reel to real.

It's not just actors, come to think of it, but moviemakers in all forms, like Steven Spielberg, who will never be the same for me after "Munich."

It all started weeks ago when something came on, during channel surfing, starring Tom Cruise--"A Few Good Men," I think it was, really a fine movie ordinarily. But times have changed. Or maybe it's Cruise that's changed, or me, a typical movie buff. Anyway, I could not watch this.

I kept remembering Cruise so "master of the universe" when he had that tiff with Matt Lauer, but mostly, jumping up and down Oprah's couch.

So Tom Cruise will never be the same, not for me, and now I find him tough to watch in anything he does. Can't get that other business out of my mind.

So many of these stars have you at hello, but then it's goodbye.

Nick Nolte? A fine actor. BUT--that skid row mug shot. Remember? Of course. How can we delete that from any performance he gives?

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Actors seem to feel that because they read their press clippings they have some deep insight into politics and the human condition. Note to actors: Better to remain silent and be thought a dullard, then to open you mouth and prove you're a real dumb-ass!