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Your Tax $$$ at Work: Antonio Shills for Hollywood
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 Am I the only one whose neck-hair is standing up over this?
LAObserved points out a press release saying Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the entire City Council and LAPD Chief William Bratton will be honoring the makers of Crash on the occasion of the movie's release to video?
Never mind that the movie was an over-hyped pastiche of comic-book set-pieces, but do the taxpayers get a cut of the gross? Otherwise, the mayor, council and chief of police have no business doing the work of Lionsgate flacks ...
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"Our City is proud of Lionsgate and the cast and crew of Crash for this powerful film, which was shot almost entirely on the streets of Los Angeles," said Mayor Villaraigosa. "In the most diverse City in the world, we live and work side by side with people from different backgrounds, but we seldom talk about -- and learn -- from our differences. Art is meant to provoke, Crash certainly has and will continue to do so for years to come." If the timing weren't so dead-bang convenient for the Lionsgate marketing team, we could good-naturedly cuff him about the ears and write it off as the gushings of a fanboy.
But this week, right now, this reeks.
... or is there some subtle value here for Angelenos that I'm completely missing?
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| Posted by: Mack_Reed on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 10:28 AM
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