Published November 13, 2005
The New York Times Magazine
Last August, in Beverly Hills, I stopped in to see the actor, director and producer Rob Reiner, who has emerged in recent years as a highly articulate spokesman for Democratic causes and an acid critic of the president and his war in Iraq. There was a time, decades ago, when studio executives were the main political players in Hollywood, and like the heads of other profitable American industries, they spent their capital on their own parochial interests, things like intellectual property rights and access to foreign markets.
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