CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports:

Michael Douglas, who is at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival to present a newly restored print of Miloš Forman’s classic “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” spoke at the festival about his fears for democracy in the U.S. under the Trump administration. When asked at a press conference about the state of politics in his home country, the Oscar-winner said the nation is currently “flirting with autocracy.”

“I look at it generally as the fact of how precious democracy is, of how vulnerable it is and how it always has to be protected,” he added. “I hope that what we’re struggling with right now is a reminder of all the hard work the Czechs did in gaining their freedom and independence. Politics now seem to be for profit. Money has entered democracy as a profit centre. People are going into politics now to make money. We maintained an ideal, an idealism in the U.S., which does not exist now.”

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Michael Douglas Has ‘No Intention’ of Returning to Acting, Says U.S. Idealism ‘Does Not Exist Now’: ‘People Are Going Into Politics to Make Money’ https://t.co/QlKc0lPJDK

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