This ad (click to see larger version) appears in the Los Angeles Times on 17th August 2006. Its message is neither complicated nor (if you're going to be fair-minded about it) controversial. The Hollywood insiders who signed up are people who evidently believe what most people say: that terrorism is a shocking, horrifying thing and that unless it's stopped, innocent people will die.In alphabetical order by surname, the list comprises: Avi Arad, Jon Avnet, Gary Barber, Lawrence Bender, Roger Birnbaum, Phil Blazer, Eric Braeden, Colin Callender, Gloria Carlin, Kristin Chenowith, Lionel Chetwynd, Michael Chiklis, Arthur Cohn, Bryan Cranston, Clint Culpepper, Boaz Davidson, Matt DelPiano, Danny De Vito, Danny Dimbort, Dick Donnor, Lauren Shuler Donner, Stephen Dorff, Michael Douglas, Tom Dressen, Larry Elder, Ari Emanuel, Randall Emmett, Ben Feingold, Rick Finkelstein, Vivica A. Fox, William Friedkin, Bob Gale, Larry Gelbart, Jack Gilardi, Mark Gochman, Howard Gordon, Meyer Gottlieb, Patricia Heaton, Dennis Hopper, William Hurt, Don Johnson, Nicole Kidman, Anne Kopelson, Arnold Kopelson, Scott Lambert, Sherry Lansing, Avi Lerner, Jon Liebman, Doug Liman, David Lonner, Branko Lustig, Bruce Ramer, Bernie Mac, Joshua Malina, Michael Mann, David Matalon, Ron Meyer, Arnon Milchan, Rupert Murdoch, Emmanual Nunez, Amy Pascal, Millie Perkins, Cyntheia Pett-Dante, Kelly Preston, Frank Price, Sam Raimi, Summer Redstone, Ivan Reitman, Haim Saban, Pat Sajak, Deran Sarafian, Steve Scheffer, Sam Schwartz , Sir Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Gary Sinise, Sylvestor Stallone, Joel Surnow, Daniel Adam Sussman, Sandy Wernick, Serena Williams, Bruce Willis, Irwin Winkler, James Woods, Laura Ziskin (Thanks to Urban Grounds for most of the hyperlinks.)
Here's the text:
"We the undersigned are pained and devastated by the civilian casualties in Israel and Lebanon caused by terrorist actions initiated by terrorist organisations such as Hezbollah and Hamas. If we do not succeed in stopping terrorism around the world, chaos will rule and innocent people will continue to die. We need to support democratic societies and stop terrorism at all costs."Since it appeared, various blogs and newspapers have commented on the show-business names that are not here, while others congratulate those who are.
That's not really our concern. We'll just remind ourselves that sometimes there's a very concrete downside to such public declarations. The film maker Theo Van Gogh, working from a script by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (a Somali refugee and liberal parliamentarian who recently abandoned her adopted country) who for years had been fighting for women's rights in the Netherlands, created the 10-minute movie Submission, dealing with violence against women in Islamic societies. For having taken on jihadist Islam as a target, Van Gogh was murdered in 2004 by a Dutch Moslem.
That's one way to silence the voices that condemn terror.
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