Radical Hollywood
People complain that there social activism isn't what it used to be -- and it seems that's true even amongst the limousine liberals. Loved this anecdote in a piece on Donald Sutherland in New Statesman. Stephen Armstrong writes:

Donald Sutherland is a veteran Hollywood activist who in the 1970s made anti-Vietnam films with Jane Fonda. Those heady days pale in comparison to today's political battles.

Many Hollywood actors like to sound off about politics. But few have been at the sharp end of it quite like Donald Sutherland. "I was in Yugoslavia when I found out," he says, with a fond smile. He is telling me about the day in 1969 when he found out his then wife, the actress Shirley Douglas, had been arrested for procuring arms for the Black Panthers. "Clint Eastwood came walking out of the sun like it was a spaghetti western and said, 'I have some bad news for you. Your wife's been arrested. For buying hand grenades. From an undercover agent of the FBI. With a personal cheque.' And when he got to the personal cheque he started laughing so hard he fell to the ground. I had to help him back up."

via theweek