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01/22/2004 Archived Entry: "G.O.P. Gallo"

Posted by steve @ 12:49 AM EST [Link]

VINCENT GALLO...CONSERVATIVE?: Vincent Gallo, a writer, actor and director, has made the entertainment news quite a bit in the past year. After Roger Ebert savaged his movie The Brown Bunny -- one that includes Gallo being...hmmm...pleasured on screen -- and a resulting war of words between the two, Gallo has been pilloried by the media. Now comes word that he's a conservative.

Mr. Gallo, 41, is a devout if unlikely member of the G.O.P., an outspoken Republican who rivals only punk rocker Mr. Ramone, Motörhead bassist and hair-meister Lemmy Kilmister, and Factory alum Paul Morrissey for the title of Least Likely Celebrity Conservative. He has been a part of the downtown art scene since the late 1970’s—a product of the days of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Studio 54’s Steve Rubell (both friends of Mr. Gallo before they died of a drug overdose and AIDS, respectively)—and his most recent film, The Brown Bunny, turns an extended *** into a new form of cinema vérité.

He is hardly the poster child for the Moral Majority.

But Mr. Gallo insisted that he’s the real deal. "There’s a picture of me at 6 years old campaigning for Richard Nixon. I’ve always been the same. Always. I was against hippies," he told his Young Republican Club hosts. He loves President Bush and loathes "self-serving" lefties, particularly "that commie crawfish, Al Franken," and that "destructive hog," Michael Moore. And he thinks politicians spend too much time pandering to special interests like "the gays, the AARP, handicapped groups." When he gets going on the media’s anti-Republican bias, as he did the other night, Mr. Gallo sounds like a regular Bill O’Reilly.

Read on.

Replies: 2 comments

Just we need: a conservative who puts curses on people...

Posted by Kathy @ 01/22/2004 10:29 AM EST

I'm all for truly hip conservatives or members of my own tribe, the rock and roll conservative -- and I'd even welcome Gallo to the club -- but there is a limit to what I can accept.

Posted by Steven Martinovich @ 01/22/2004 02:24 PM EST