Posted by
The Cat Herder on Saturday, February 06, 2010 3:16:28 AM
Our new FM talk station brought Jerry Doyle to town to promote the station, his daily radio show, and his book, Have You Seen My Country Lately? We listened for about an hour, and I tell you, we could have spent all evening in a booth at Denny's just listening to this man share political information and Hollywood stories (after all, this is Michael Garibaldi we're talking about!). He told of running for Congress in 2000, and learning that in Hollywood, "if you come out as a heroin addict, they're oh so compassionate and caring, but if you come out as a Republican, not so much!" I asked him a chicken/egg type question about whether artists become liberal or liberals become artists - he said in his experiences with people, he's seen people define what their values are, then align with the Republican Party because they matched. He's also seen people become Democrats, then adopt whatever values the Democrats espouse. A couple of big surprises for me were that when he went to LA to get into acting, he had no acting training, and still he successfully landed on Babylon 5 in a very short time - and that even though he worked on all five years of the show plus its movies, he has never seen a single episode (he was there, he read the scripts, he knew how the stories went, and that was all he needed, he said).
Now we have to dig into the book! And hope he comes back here again...