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Cinemocracy enlists Northeastern Univ. professor and author Alan Schroeder as a guest-essayist, and Schroeder takes a look at George W. Bush's stable of Hollywood endorsers, which increasingly looks like a VIP lounge after the free booze has run out. Indeed, it seems that Kerry's got most of the star power behind him, but it's probably closer to being a wash than most would like to admit: If the GOP didn't have Vincent Gallo making noise for conservatives between billboard orgasms, Ben Affleck's motor-mouthed, baby-eating activism might have negated some of the apparent Dem advantage.

An excerpt from the essay:

As John Kerry amasses ever greater support from the entertainment community, the Republican candidate must make do with whatever table scraps drop from Democratic plates. Heading into a fight-to-the-death general election season, Team Bush finds itself trying to cobble together the show biz equivalent of a coalition of the willing: there is Nashville, W.'s most reliable entertainment bedfellow, serving as the equivalent of Tony Blair's Britain. Gospel music is Poland, and Dennis Miller and Wayne Newton function as Nicaragua and Albania.