"We're dropping Minnesota."
I am a producer, by the Atlas Shrugged definition and the movie definition. In addition to being a radio talk show host I'm the producer of the new movie, An Inconsistent Truth, which is an answer to Al Gore's film.
I was invited to be a part of Atlas Shrugged 3 and was delighted to accept. Like so many of you, I waited years to see Ayn Rand's masterpiece brought to the silver screen. The first two were excellent and I'm looking forward to number 3.
I play the part of Eugene Lawson. Lawson is a looter of the first order. After destroying a bank he headed in Wisconsin, and almost taking the entire state down with him, he was tapped to join the Bureau of Economic Planning in Washington. Proof that the old adage is true. Defecation really does float to the top.
In my one scene, Lawson is sitting at a dinner table filled with black ties, cognac and fine cigars as the looters plot to cut off rail service to Minnesota. It's primarily a confrontation between Cuffy Meigs (Tony Denison) and Dagny (Laura Regan) who warns Meigs that cutting off Minnesota will cut off the farmers and starve the country.
I deliver my one and only line at the end of the scene when I announce to the table, "We're dropping Minnesota." I studied for days to master that line. ;)
Thanks to Harmon, John, Jim and all the great folks on the set of Atlas Shrugged 3. Can't wait to see the movie in theaters.
And remember what I always tell people who want to tax the rich more. When you soak the rich, everybody gets wet.
Phil Valentine
Host,
The Phil Valentine Show
Cumulus Media Networks
I was invited to be a part of Atlas Shrugged 3 and was delighted to accept. Like so many of you, I waited years to see Ayn Rand's masterpiece brought to the silver screen. The first two were excellent and I'm looking forward to number 3.
I play the part of Eugene Lawson. Lawson is a looter of the first order. After destroying a bank he headed in Wisconsin, and almost taking the entire state down with him, he was tapped to join the Bureau of Economic Planning in Washington. Proof that the old adage is true. Defecation really does float to the top.
In my one scene, Lawson is sitting at a dinner table filled with black ties, cognac and fine cigars as the looters plot to cut off rail service to Minnesota. It's primarily a confrontation between Cuffy Meigs (Tony Denison) and Dagny (Laura Regan) who warns Meigs that cutting off Minnesota will cut off the farmers and starve the country.
I deliver my one and only line at the end of the scene when I announce to the table, "We're dropping Minnesota." I studied for days to master that line. ;)
Thanks to Harmon, John, Jim and all the great folks on the set of Atlas Shrugged 3. Can't wait to see the movie in theaters.
And remember what I always tell people who want to tax the rich more. When you soak the rich, everybody gets wet.
Phil Valentine
Host,
The Phil Valentine Show
Cumulus Media Networks
In the real world, however, *after* he said "we're not gonna allow you to run that train on the John Galt Line", and she replied, "get out of here; you do not come into my office and tell me what you will or will not allow me to do", the actual course of events would have been quite different.
In the movie, he sputters and weakly tries to defend his position. In the real world he would have said, "I just did." and walked out.
Welcome to the Gulch.
About a year ago he'd thrown one of those tiny, hand-held flags on the floor of the maintenance room, after plucking it from the shelving unit where someone had shoved it. After picking it up I was so incense I told him if he did anything like that again, I'd kick the living shit out of him. (did I mention that my management evaluation concluded that I'm "non-confrontational"? :)
So I thought he was needling me, but then he went on about how the flag is a symbol of evil, and the entire country was stolen (to which I asked how many hospitals, highways, factories and spaceships the natives had built before we came here), and built on slave labor (to which I again asked the name of the slave who invented the automobile, invented the concept of the hospital, etc).
He later said he wasn't trying to get me upset (he didn't; I had a stomach ache that was already bothering me more), but he sincerely believed the nonsense he was telling me.
He's otherwise a good guy, but no wonder he has a negative outlook on life, if that's where he starts from.
Amazingly, still to this day when ave Americans hear someone pushed the boundaries, broke with tradition, disrupted something, we are excited by trying something new. In many places, people have a negative bias. They have ethnic traditions going back 1000 years, and they feel comfortable with not rocking the boat.
I live in a neighborhood that's 85% liberal, and I see lots of flags flown.
You don't need to be belligerent about saving a flag from being disposed of with spoiling food and general trash. The person who thinks it's okay is in the minority.
Thank you for taking on a difficult task.
You get to play a man we'll love to hate.
But we'll remember the actor we love, as well.
So glad you are part of this.
Is it fair? no But to those on the street or see their childen going hungry that is how it is.
And once the government drain all the money from the middle class. Guess who left?
http://www.plusaf.com/global-warming/glo...
Shame that too many people have gotten too lazy & complacent to understand that.