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Originally Posted by bronconick
I was wondering why athletes always get more of a backlash then actors for coming out on political stuff. It's been a time honored tradition in Hollywood, after all, and musicians are about as bad. Both are involved in what I'd call "escapism" where when I'm watching, I don't WANT to hear about politics, the starving kids, or whatever, and all I can think of is that when Mel Gibson is an idiot, he makes one movie a year (where he's technically not Mel Gibson during) which is 3 hours of my life that I can choke down my bile or just skip, while if a football player on my favorite team starts going political, that's 16+ games of 3 hours a piece.
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I don't give actors a pass either FIWW.
Haven't been to a Mel Gibson movie since his nuttiness came out, and haven't been to a Tom Cruise movie since he went postal and super-scientologist. Same thing for Travolta.