Chavez government to finance Danny Glover film

Via: Guardian Unlimited

Venezuela is to give the American actor Danny Glover almost $18m (£9m) to make a film about a slave uprising in Haiti, with President Hugo Chávez hoping the historical epic will sprinkle Hollywood stardust on his effort to mobilise world public opinion against imperialism and western oppression.

The Venezuelan congress said it would use the proceeds from a recent bond sale with Argentina to finance Glover’s biopic of Toussaint Louverture, an iconic figure in the Caribbean who led an 18th-century revolt in Haiti.

Glover, 60, who starred with Mel Gibson in the Lethal Weapon series, and more recently with Eddie Murphy in the film DreamGirls, is a civil rights activist and supporter of Mr Chávez’s radical leftwing policies.

In otherwords his politics are lame as his movies. Sorry Danny, your insanity has destroyed all respect I had for you and any movie you were in. Oh wait I never liked you in any of the movies you were in. Well theres always moving to another country. I guess your on the path you deserve. A road to no where.

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