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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 31, 2012

  In awards-obsessed Hollywood, why aren’t stunt performers included for an Oscar win? If not the stunt performers, then surely the stunt coordinators, those who create, direct, and implement incredible, heart-racing stunts in films, should be honored by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. But, they aren’t. While the Academy Award for title-writing [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 11, 2011

  Sign of the times — Hollywood films royally choked this weekend, with the worst ticket sales for the whole year. The worst since September 2008. Our economy is still in the toilet, unemployment looks less awful on paper when you disregard all the unemployed people not included in the stats who have given up [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | October 30, 2011

  I’ve been boycotting the films of liberal radicals like Sean Penn, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore, Alec Baldwin, Rosie O’Donnell, Jane Fonda, and Gwyneth Paltrow for years… I’m not the only one, according to a Hollywood Reporter poll this month that evaluates American moviegoers and the actors and actresses they will not pay [...]

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