Poor Kirk Cameron! August 26, 2007
Posted by Evil Bender in Humor, Religion, wingnuts.trackback
That’s right, everybody’s vote for most annoying favorite sitcom star turned wingnut is back again, and this time he’s upset that people don’t want to hire him to be in productions not funded by Tim LaHaye:
But Cameron says his priorities are very clear: God, family, career — in that order.
He says those decisions have had negative consequences for his career.
“I had one producer in a meeting discussing a movie say, ‘So I hear you’ve got content issues.’ You know, absolutely I’ve got content issues,” Cameron says. “What I would say is I’ve got convictions. I’ve got priorities. If someone was asking me to do something that would compromise my relationship with my wife I wouldn’t do that; if that’s going to hurt my marriage, I’m not going to do that. If it’s going to hurt my kids, I’m not going to do that and I take it a step further and say if this is going to hurt someone else’s kids, I don’t want to be a part of that.”
“It’s about personal integrity,” he says, “that’s all.”
Cameron says he’d love to do non-religious films and TV again, but at times it’s difficult to convince producers that while he has found Jesus, he hasn’t lost his sense of humor.
One is tempted to say lack of talent might have some part to play in this too, but Lindsay Lohan keeps getting work, so maybe that’s not fair. But why would Cameron suspect that people think he’s lost his sense of humor? Maybe because of the bullshit lies he tells about those for whom he wants to work:
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So, he accuses Hollywood of hating Christianity* and then turns around and laments that Hollywood producers don’t want to give his fundamentalist ass a job? In related news, spitting on your would-be employer during a job interview isn’t a great way to get work.
But perhaps I’m being unfair to Cameron. Maybe he does have a sense of humor. After all, his “bananas are proof of God’s existence” bit was the funniest thing I’ve seen in years.
*Why is Hollywood always a unified block for these people? I can’t imagine it has anything to do with stereotypes about Jewish people.
It’s not like Hollywood is pumping out tons of nice portrayals of non-believers: if anyone is a non-believer or skeptic in the movie, they generally get comeuppance and ridicule and a portrayal as a arrogant snot.
The reality is that Hollywood doesn’t care in the least about promoting religion, anti-religion, or non-religion: they just want to pump out hits with lots of flashes, one-liners, and perhaps a boob or two. When they do deal with religion, it’s always going to be the basic reader’s digest version. That might not excite skeptics or fundamentalists, but at least most of us non-believers don’t run around claiming that there is some sort of giant conspiracy behind our portrayals: it’s just run of the mill lazy-mainstream-pitched writing.
The Major Movie company (-ies) in Hollywood, New York, Great Britain, Cananda, and even here in good ol’ Pagan Orygone love to do movies with a Christian theme, WHEN there’s a buck in it.
“Family-Oriented” movies? Sure, if it’s potentially profitable. Using a actor with specific conviction, no worries if he/she’s boxoffice
“The Passion of Christ” brought in a lot of money, and there were a number of very vocal Jewish groups with concerns about it. (Hey, i don’t want to be called a Christ-killer either.)
RE: Kirk Cameron. I am a Christian. i don’t watch his show, nor do I watch Hammer, Paul & Jan, or most of whatever else is on TBN or other so-called “Christian television.” I’ll take my entertainment with a little talent on the side please. Oh, yeah, I need to find the banana thing. It might be fun. :-p
Who’s Kirk Cameron?
Man…Kirk Cameron’s Buddy on Growing Pains was named “Boner”. BONER. COME ON.