Kudos To Denzel Washington

September 27, 2009 at 3:46 pm
The showbusiness industry, it’s got to be said, is not renowned for it’s right wing thinking. Senator McCarthy probably had a whole wing of his mansion dedicated to files on Hollywood stars, and the files on Jane Fonda would have been large enough to sustain their own gravitational field. Over here, Bliar packed No10 with his glitzy ‘friends’ whilst the Conservative Party could only boast celebrity endorsements from the level of the bloke who had his arm up the backside of Zippy from Rainbow.
This does have its advantages, though. Most of the supermodels tend to support animal rights loons PETA and TheEye always looks forward to when they do those advertising campaigns in the nude to say that…they’d rather….not wear anything….than….wear….uh, where was I?
Oh yes. An admiration for Denzel Washington, a star who clearly doesn’t feel the need to kiss Obama’s ring.

From the Austrian Times:
Hollywood superstar Denzel Washington has told how he snubbed an invitation to attend a fundraising dinner for Barack Obama and went to watch a game played by his favourite basketball team instead.

The two-time Academy Award winner told Austrian magazine Live: “I’m very happy that the colour of one’s skin is becoming less and less important. The first black president – it was a good headline, but, if we don’t finally become colour-blind in that regard, we won’t make any progress.
“And, to be honest, Obama cannot be as important to me considering how I acted when Dreamworks boss Jeffrey Katzenberg called. He only phones me if he wants a donation. At that time, he was organising a fundraiser for Obama and asked me to come along. But I went to see the (Los Angeles) Lakers play in the NBA Finals,” the “Training Day” actor said.
A man with priorities after TheEye’s own. Sport and beer.