>If it takes courage to have a right-wing view in the industry, all I want is an instance that displays that.

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Patricia Heaton was having dinner and conversation with a few Hollywood friends when the subject of politics came up. When the "Everybody Loves Raymond" star said she's voting for George W. Bush, the chatter turned to awkward silence.
"You'd think I'd crapped in the middle of the table," the Emmy-winning actress says in "Rated R: Republicans in Hollywood," a documentary that premiered recently on AMC-TV.

Hollywood has always been a liberal town, a Democratic stronghold


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/09/01/DI2008090101813.html

Thanks for that. And yeah, Hollywood conservatives - and conservatives in the arts in general - get in touch with me a lot, often just to thank me for opening my big mouth. It's an odd situation, especially in a democracy, when the people in the majority feel they have to be careful what they say for fear of an elite

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110005377

Along with not succumbing to the casting couch and not dating your co-stars, one of the unwritten rules in Hollywood has been not coming out of the GOP closet. Actress Emma Caulfield ("Darkness Falls") was slammed when she said she would campaign for Elizabeth Dole. "I would never fully admit to being a Republican in this town," she later told Premiere magazine. "I want to work."