Academy Voter Takes Bold Pro-Life Stand Adam Holz
Hollywood hates Christianity. Everyone knows that, right?
I confess, that’s an easy stereotype many buy into. And there is no shortage of examples of people who say and do things that reinforce the narrative of Tinseltown being a “godless” or “immoral” place.
Every now and then, however, something challenges that narrative in a way that gives me hope. And I ran across one of those stories last week.
Filmmaker Kieth Merrill won an Oscar for his 1973 documentary
The Great American Cowboy. He was nominated again in 1997 for his short feature
Amazon. He’s also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences one of a record 9,362 Academy voters deciding this year’s awards (which air on ABC this Sunday night). Back in February, Merrill announced that he would not be watching one film still in consideration for nominations at that point, the pro-abortion drama
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Oscar winner to Never Rarely Sometimes Always director: “I have ZERO interest in watching a woman cross state lines so someone can murder her unborn child”
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Oscar winner to Never Rarely Sometimes Always director: “I have ZERO interest in watching a woman cross state lines so someone can murder her unborn child”
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 12:50 pm on March 3, 2021
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Is this an example of “choice,” or a demonstration from the “old white puritanical guard” of Hollywood? If you’re puzzled by this question, you may have missed the Tinseltown tiff between
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