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Tom Cruise, Needing Money, Goes Republican
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
By Roger Friedman
Politics — even in Hollywood — indeed does make for strange bedfellows.
Tom Cruise has found a little new money — about $ 3 million — for his production company. But it’s no case of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
Cruise, in partnering with Washington Redskins owner Daniel M. Snyder and Virginia home builder Dwight W. Schar, is now in very different company than ever before.
Both Snyder and Schar are very big Republican donors, active in the Virginia Republican party, and huge supporters of President Bush.
This is in stark contrast to Sumner Redstone, head of Viacom/Paramount. Redstone, who lives in Massachusetts, is a Kennedy man and a big Democratic contributor.
Cruise’s partner, Paula Wagner, and her husband Rick Nicita, Cruise’s agent, are also active Democratic contributors in Hollywood.
Leaving the Democratic confines of Hollywood studios for outside money puts Cruise in an interesting position with his new partners.
According to federal election filings, Schar, for example, has given Republicans hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last few years and was President Bush’s finance co-chair in Virginia.
And Schar is seriously a Republican. In 2005, Schar gave $36,000 to Pennsylvania congressional candidate Michael Fitzpatrick, using his Palm Beach, Fla., address.
In the last two years, Schar has also contributed $77,400 to the Republican National Committee.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,210972,00.html
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
By Roger Friedman
Politics — even in Hollywood — indeed does make for strange bedfellows.
Tom Cruise has found a little new money — about $ 3 million — for his production company. But it’s no case of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
Cruise, in partnering with Washington Redskins owner Daniel M. Snyder and Virginia home builder Dwight W. Schar, is now in very different company than ever before.
Both Snyder and Schar are very big Republican donors, active in the Virginia Republican party, and huge supporters of President Bush.
This is in stark contrast to Sumner Redstone, head of Viacom/Paramount. Redstone, who lives in Massachusetts, is a Kennedy man and a big Democratic contributor.
Cruise’s partner, Paula Wagner, and her husband Rick Nicita, Cruise’s agent, are also active Democratic contributors in Hollywood.
Leaving the Democratic confines of Hollywood studios for outside money puts Cruise in an interesting position with his new partners.
According to federal election filings, Schar, for example, has given Republicans hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last few years and was President Bush’s finance co-chair in Virginia.
And Schar is seriously a Republican. In 2005, Schar gave $36,000 to Pennsylvania congressional candidate Michael Fitzpatrick, using his Palm Beach, Fla., address.
In the last two years, Schar has also contributed $77,400 to the Republican National Committee.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,210972,00.html
