Why didn't Hollywood save New Orleans?

[Happy Monkey]

Read about the real asses here.

Unfortunately, our sinking feeling (along with the sinking City) was correct. Just as dusk set in, a Gretna Sheriff showed up, jumped out of his patrol vehicle, aimed his gun at our faces, screaming, "Get off the fucking freeway". A helicopter arrived and used the wind from its blades to blow away our flimsy structures. As we retreated, the sheriff loaded up his truck with our food and water.

Wow! Great link, HM! What an appalling story written by two visitors to New Orleans. How damning are their words. Enough said.

[Hobbs]

Purhaps this has already been addressed in this thread, so I'll just reiterate the obvious.

Why didn't Hollywood save NO, or better put why did it take Hollywood so long to save NO? Becuase it took them that long to figure out how to capitalize on this disaster. Any celebrity worth their weight in helping would be better doing it on the sly. When you drag a shit-load of cameras, and production crews with you, your efforts become suspect and smacks of self-promotional material. It happens all the time. Being a celebrity is a desease. They need the spotlight. If they want to truely help, shut the cameras off, push the producers out of the boat and pack it full of food and water. Right now everyone is cashing in on this situation from Richard Simmons, Sean Penn, to President bush and Channey.

Historical story of interest:

One late night a fire broke out on the Paramount back lot. William Shatner was first on the scene. Seeing the fire, he rushed to a phone. Only he wasn't calling the studio fire deparment, but his publicist and a photographer. When they arrived, he then called the studio FD and then lent a hand putting out the fire. Lots of good pub shots of him fighting the fire along side the professionals. The building/set invovled in the fire was a complete loss btw. That's it in a nut shell.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Hobbs

Any celebrity worth their weight in helping would be better doing it on the sly.

Exactly. The only ones you hear about are the ones who did have media coverage. But asking why Hollywood in general didn't respond before FEMA did is like me asking why Hobbs and NICOTINEGUN haven't contributed to the Red Cross.