Lieberman Not Going Hollywood
— -- Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman says he’ll continue his campaign to improve Hollywood’s moral values. Meanwhile, the Clintons held a star-studded fund-raiser in Tinseltown.
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Aug. 13 — Sen. Joseph Lieberman will be a headliner in Los Angeles this week, but he’s not going Hollywood. The Democratic vice-presidential candidate may have a prime-time role at his party’s convention, which opens Monday in Los Angeles, but Lieberman said today that he will not back away from his criticism of the entertainment industry — even though show business interests are some of the most reliable supporters of the Democrats.
“I’m going to keep appealing to them to draw a line,” Lieberman said today on ABCNEWS’ This Week.
“There’s so much violence, so much sex, so much incivility,” he said. “It makes it very hard for parents to give their kids values.”
Movie And Music Money
Lieberman’s comments come even as his party engages in a massive round of entertainment-related fund-raisers this week.
Saturday night, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinon held a fund-raiser for her New York Senate campaign that included concert performances by a number of star singers, including Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Cher, and Michael Bolton. The event was expected to bring in a minimum of $1 million.
This morning, Barbra Streisand was hosting a brunch for President Clinton’s presidential library that could raise as much as $10 million. And Streisand, among others, is planning to sing at a fund-raiser for Gore on Thursday that may rake in another $2.5 million.
“I love movies, I love music,” Lieberman said. But he added that a future Gore-Lieberman administration would endeavor “to improve the moral future of America” in addition to working on traditional policy matters.
Appearing on NBC’s Meet The Press today, Lieberman conceded that, if elected, he would stop presenting the “Silver Sewer” awards that he and William Bennett, former Education Secretary under President Reagan, have given out in recent years to companies they call “cultural polluters.”
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