HOLLYWOOD ENLISTS FOR WAR DUTY.Byline: Valerie Kuklenski Staff Writer Sixty years after Hollywood joined the war against the Axis powers Axis Powers Coalition headed by Germany, Italy, and Japan that opposed the Allied Powers in World War II. The alliance originated in a series of agreements between Germany and Italy, followed in 1936 by the Rome-Berlin Axis declaration and the German-Japanese Anti-Comintern , Washington and the entertainment industry are joining forces in the war on terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act , industry leaders said Thursday. A handful of powerful TV and film executives met this week in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. with two Bush representatives - Chris Henick, deputy assistant to the president, and Adam Goldman, associate director of the office of public liaison - to lay the groundwork for an arts and entertainment task force. Screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd and Craig Haffner, chief executive officer of Greystone Communications Groups Inc., said Thursday that they had been dealing with the Bush administration for a few months in efforts to ease the adversarial ad·ver·sar·i·al adj. Relating to or characteristic of an adversary; involving antagonistic elements: "the chasm between management and labor in this country, an often needlessly adversarial . . . relationship between Washington and Hollywood. The events of Sept. 11 gave that goal new urgency. Haffner said the task force's purpose could range from procuring Procuring, in general, is the act of acquiring goods or services, usually by contract. It may refer to:
``The advantage here is we have the most creative people in the world, and people have already stepped up and started doing things,'' Haffner said. ``We are now going to have the advantage of to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. - Clarendon. See also: Advantage having the administration coordinate what they would find useful, and we'll both talk about it and see what can be done.'' He said the entertainment industry has made significant contributions since Sept. 11, from concerts and telethons to public-service announcements, and still wants to do more. ``And there needs to be a point of contact because the White House doesn't have the mechanism to handle the outpouring that they've gotten,'' Haffner said. ``The White House wanted to show how committed it was to this by sending representatives out here to have a conversation with leading members of the (entertainment) community and, secondly, to underscore The underscore character (_) is often used to make file, field and variable names more readable when blank spaces are not allowed. For example, NOVEL_1A.DOC, FIRST_NAME and Start_Routine. (character) underscore - _, ASCII 95. that this is to be a broad-based effort, that there's something for everybody to do, and that's what we're going to try and figure out,'' Haffner said. Chetwynd suggested the task force may be up and running sooner in the private sector than on the government's side. White House officials will be holding more meetings in Washington with various departments before proceeding. There have been comparisons made to World War II when the country's outrage over the Pearl Harbor attack Pearl Harbor attack (Dec. 7, 1941) Surprise aerial attack by the Japanese on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu island, Hawaii, that precipitated U.S. entry into World War II. In the decade preceding the attack, U.S. led to a flurry Flurry A drastic volume increase in a specific security. of movies heavy in patriotic and pro-military messages. Director Frank Capra made pro-Army films during his stint in the Signal Corps. But Chetwynd said the task force will not be a propaganda machine. ``I don't think it is to try and influence what we do,'' he said. ``No one has discussed conscripting anybody from Hollywood into the service.'' Chetwynd said there may have been political motives to outreach efforts before the terrorist attacks, but not now. Bob Gustafson, director of the Entertainment Industry Institute at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , said the greatest benefit to Hollywood might be in getting a handle on what the public wants and needs in entertainment while world tensions remain high. Chetwynd and Haffner said the task force could become a permanent Washington fixture if it is effective. Gustafson, however, said powers might be abused after the sense of crisis has passed. ``If one of the sides feels manipulated by the other, you've got trouble,'' Gustafson said. |
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