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Too many speeches. (L.A. Stories).


Hollywood celebrities hotly hot·ly  
adv.
In an intense or fiery way: a hotly contested will.

Adv. 1. hotly - in a heated manner; "`To say I am behind the strike is so much nonsense,' declared Mr Harvey heatedly"; "the
 contesting the war in Iraq made enough sparks to garner their own protest.

A loose-knit conservative, online activist organization called grassfire.net footed the bill for a billboard on Highland Avenue condemning con·demn  
tr.v. con·demned, con·demn·ing, con·demns
1. To express strong disapproval of: condemned the needless waste of food.

2.
 Hollywood's protests of the war. The billboard, across from the Kodak Theatre The Kodak Theatre is a live theatre in the Hollywood and Highland retail, dining, and entertainment complex on Hollywood Boulevard and North Highland Avenue in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. , says: "Dear Hollywood... Get the Picture! America Supports Bush."

Ron De Jong De Jong is the most common Dutch surname. Many people bear this name, including many important historical figures. Some of these people are mentioned below.

De Jong may mean:
  • Petrus de Jong, prime minister of the Netherlands from 1967 until 1971
, a spokesman for grassfire.net who lives in Virginia, said the billboard went up on March 18 in time for the 75th annual Academy Awards, and will remain for about a month.

"We felt like they have a podium podium

In architecture, a pedestal on a large scale. It may be any of various elements that form the base of a structure, such as the platform forming the floor and substructure of a Classical temple, a low wall supporting columns, or the structurally or decoratively
 and a microphone that we don't have' De Jong said of Hollywood celebrities. 'They don't speak for the majority of Americans, and we felt like we should give those Americans a microphone?'

De Jong said the billboard is the first for the three-year-old organization, which has plans for two additional billboards in Hollywood in the near future.
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Title Annotation:A loose-knit conservative, online activist organization called grassfire.net footed the bill for a billboard on Highland Avenue condemning Hollywood's protests of the war.
Author:Bronstad, Amanda
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U9CA
Date:Mar 24, 2003
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