{"id":8046,"date":"2016-12-22T17:47:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T00:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8046"},"modified":"2017-01-05T17:55:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T00:55:45","slug":"hollywood-babylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/22\/hollywood-babylon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Babylgun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/features.hollywoodreporter.com\/the-gun-industrys-lucrative-relationship-with-hollywood\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>LOCKED &amp; LOADED: The Gun Industry&#8217;s Lucrative Relationship With\u00a0Hollywood<\/h1>\n<p>By Gary Baum &amp; Scott Johnson<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/769341148\/E1zVmpNYx_default\/index.html?videoId=5250042060001\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"480\" height=\"240\" ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The NRA and the entertainment industry interact publicly as mortal enemies. But as the number of weapons shown in movies and TV steadily increases \u2014 and stars like Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie make fortunes wielding guns onscreen \u2014 a co-dependence that keeps both churning is revealed: \u201cmaking the liberal bias a lot of money\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"widget_1482438145695d0ea3abb\" class=\"n2-text-block\"><span id=\"widget_1482438145695979785f0\" class=\"n2-text-block\">BURNISHED BY THE LOW LIGHT OF GLASS-WALLED DISPLAYS, THEY seem like ancient artifacts, but the objects here are beloved contemporary icons. One case houses the massive Smith &amp; Wesson Model 29 wielded by Clint Eastwood&#8217;s &#8220;Dirty Harry&#8221; Callahan in the 1973 film\u00a0<span id=\"widget_148243814569687490fae\" class=\"n2-text-block\">Magnum Force<\/span>. In another rests the Beretta 92F used by Bruce Willis in\u00a0<span id=\"widget_148243814569604035510\" class=\"n2-text-block\">Die Hard<\/span>. All the great shoot-&#8217;em-up classics \u2014\u00a0<span id=\"widget_1482438145696e5a2813b\" class=\"n2-text-block\">The Bourne Identity<\/span>,\u00a0<span id=\"widget_148243814569611c47f43\" class=\"n2-text-block\">Pulp Fiction<\/span>,\u00a0<span id=\"widget_148243814569622bdd80b\" class=\"n2-text-block\">The Wild Bunch<\/span>\u00a0\u2014 are here. This exhibit, celebrating cinema, isn&#8217;t in Hollywood; it&#8217;s thousands of miles away, in a museum at the headquarters of the National Rifle Association in Fairfax, Va.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The NRA is proud of its &#8220;Hollywood Guns&#8221; exhibit. It&#8217;s the most popular of more than a dozen rooms and multiple showcases, which include the gun that Theodore Roosevelt took on a 1913 expedition to the Amazon. The shiny allure of the Hollywood gun room comes last in the museum tour \u2014 &#8220;like a reward,&#8221; says an NRA official.<br \/>\n<span id=\"widget_14824381456964ff70704\" class=\"n2-text-block\"><span id=\"widget_1482438145696daa7d673\" class=\"n2-text-block\"><span id=\"widget_14824381456967825f758\" class=\"n2-text-block\"><span id=\"widget_1482438145697aea1b9bb\" class=\"n2-text-block\"><br \/>\nThe exhibit highlights the sometimes uneasy but fruitful partnership between the gun industry and Hollywood, where firearms are an integral part of life and storytelling. Meanwhile, gun manufacturers say that there&#8217;s no better way to brand, market and sell a weapon than to get it placed in a big Hollywood production. And most of the time, it&#8217;s free \u2014 product placement at its finest.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/features.hollywoodreporter.com\/the-gun-industrys-lucrative-relationship-with-hollywood\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at THR<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Hollywood Reporter LOCKED &amp; LOADED: The Gun Industry&#8217;s Lucrative Relationship With\u00a0Hollywood By Gary Baum &amp; Scott Johnson The NRA and the entertainment industry interact publicly as mortal enemies. But as the number of weapons shown in movies and TV steadily increases \u2014 and stars like Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie make fortunes wielding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}