TIME offers a nice report on the new right-leaning movie, An American Carol. The opening paragraph explains why such a conservative picture is so rare in Hollywood:

[T]here’s the thing you don’t admit to: that you vote Republican. “I preface it by saying I’ve been convicted of child molestation, and that breaks the ice,” says director David Zucker of sharing his political views with liberal-leaning colleagues. “Then being Republican doesn’t seem so bad to them.”

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