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Don't Vote, Vote? Whatever–Spielberg's Directing an Online Video!

in News on October 30, 2008 at 1:36 am PT

Not many online videos have sequels, but the one below–featuring a passel of celebrities, including Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Borat, Leonardo DiCaprio, Julia Roberts and Harrison Ford–is one and even has famed director Steven Spielberg at the helm. It is a follow-up to a PSA I posted earlier this month, called “Hollywood Declares Themselves,” encouraging young people to vote.

Don't Vote! (Except, It's Celebs Being Ironic, So Do!)

in News on October 1, 2008 at 2:52 pm PT

Here’s an interesting online video, in which a passel of celebrities urge young people to vote. It begins with them urging youth not to vote, in that hipster, sarcastic, of-course-we-really-mean-you-should-vote-you-dope tone. The nonpartisan PSA–well, honestly, it does lean decidedly liberal–has been produced by actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and includes DiCaprio, Jennifer Aniston, Dustin Hoffman, Eva Longoria, Forest Whitaker, Ellen DeGeneres, among others.