Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon inspired stage satires cast in the mold of Shakespearean and Greek tragedies. George Bush gets the comedy of ineptitude. See “You’re Welcome America” with Will Ferrell. It’s a benchmark of sorts.
Oh crap. The Mayans and the Hopi predict some bad stuff is coming down in 2012. I mean, the world might end. Armageddon? It is written, grasshopper, that 2012 will be Sarah Palin's year.
Now for some good news. Twinkies have/has emerged from bankruptcy. They survived the Great Depression and the Atkins diet, too. Ding Dongs now roam throughout the land. Not just in Washington.
Val Kilmer is considering a run for governor of New Mexico. Here's a list of other actors, singers, dancers who have served their higher calling:
- George Murphy was a famous film actor turned California state senator.
- Ronald Reagan, film actor, California governor then president.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, film actor, now California governor.
- Sheila Kuehl was a famous TV star in the 50s
- Dobie Gillis became a California state senator.
- Shirley Temple (Black) became an ambassador.
- Clint Eastwood became mayor of Carmel, California.
- Sonny Bono, technically a singer but did some TV and film, became mayor of Palm Springs.
- Jarosław and Lech Kaczyński, prime minister and president of Poland respectively, starred in the film The Two Who Stole the Moon
- Glenda Jackson became a member of British Parliament.
- And going backwards, Jerry Springer was a mayor first, then became talk show host.
Anybody else?
7 comments:
Bono was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994.
Fred Grandy was elected to Congress in 1986 (Iowa). He played "Gopher" on THE LOVE BOAT
Jesse "The Body" Ventura, while initially gaining acclaim on the pro wrestling circus, er, I mean, CIRCUIT, had numerous acting credits under his belt by the time he was elected governor of Minnesota in 1998.
You left out Pappy Lee O'Daniel! And California would have been better off with Maynard G. Krebs...
Mussolini was a fledgling screenwriter.
Don't think you will really have a lot to worry about from Palin in 2012.
And Rowdy has gotten to old to be a threat, either.
Maybe somebody will show up that will really do what he/she says they will do.
Another backwards, politician to actor Fred Thompson.
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