Richard Gere And Charlize Theron Slam Bush At Venice Festival

[CatWoman]

VENICE, Italy — Richard Gere and Charlize Theron added their voices to a chorus of stars taking swipes at the Bush administration at the Venice Film Festival.

"How did we elect Bush twice?" Gere asked rhetorically while promoting his new film, "The Hunting Party."

In the film, Gere plays a reporter determined to track down Radovan Karadizic _ who has been hiding for more than a decade and is charged with genocide and crimes against humanity for his role as an alleged architect of the Bosnian war.

"What's interesting to me is how do the bad people among us end up our leaders?" the 58-year-old actor said at a news conference Monday.

In "The Valley of Elah," Theron plays a New Mexico detective drawn into the case of a U.S. soldier who disappears just days after returning from a tour of duty in Iraq.

"The decision-making process for going into Iraq was very hastily done, and I think the facts weren't there, and I just don't think you go to war for those reasons," Theron, 32, told Associated Press Television in an interview. "I think the thing that upset me most was the manipulation that our government did towards our people, manipulating them to believe that if they weren't for the war, they weren't patriotic."

George Clooney has said he made "Syriana" and "Good Night, and Good Luck" out of anger for being considered a traitor for questioning the decision to go to war. He told reporters at Venice last week that he believes Americans are now in the process of fixing the mistakes of the last few years.

The film festival ends Saturday with the awarding of the top Golden Lion prize.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070904/people-gere-theron/

[obama_girl]

1. I would vote for Gere

He would make a good congressman.

[kestrel91316]

3. Him and Clooney. Plus, they are both major hotties IMHO.

[niyad]

2. how the reichwingnutjobs will scream about this--only people on THEIR side in the entertainment

world are allowed to express opinions (hey, nuge, got an answer for richard?)

[gratuitous]

4. Ooh, and they said it on foreign soil!

Do you smell a Dixie Chicking? Or does the Fred Thompson factor now excuse and pardon all Hollywood opinionating?

[CatWoman]

5. Hi, G

:hi:

:loveya:

[gratuitous]

6. Hey good-lookin'!

Whatcha got cookin'?

[CatWoman]

10. I guess I'll know around 6

:)

[Peregrine Took]

7. Creepy rethugs always want to deny celebrities their right to speak publically

on subjects they care about. They despise free speech for everyone who isn't one of "them."

[here_is_to_hope]

11. *420*

Sorry, just had to....:smoke: :hi:

[Netbeavis]

8. oh, you meant something else...giggity giggity

Sorry, I was just thinking how I'd like to slam Bush with Charlise as well. giggity giggity.

[Cheap_Trick]

9. I'd have thought that Gere would have made a better republican....

what with the gerbils and all. :rofl: