Cinemocracy Goes Billboard Hunting:

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http://cinemocracy.blogs.com/cinemocracy/2005/02/cinemocracy_goe_1.html


Cinemocracy went out in search of the Citizens United billboards this weekend, and we found two of the three. Last week, we exposed as a lie the group's erroneous claim that celebrities will see the "thank you" messages as they walk down the red carpet on their way into the Academy Awards. Turns out, one billboard actually is on Hollywood Boulevard, but a good four blocks away from the Kodak Theater at the corner of Hollywood and Whitley. It sits just above Mr. Rogers's star on the Walk of Fame, and, yes, that is Frederick's of Hollywood right next door.

The second billboard we found is on Sunset Boulevard, a block east of Doheny, in West Hollywood, some 3.3 miles from the site of the Oscars ceremony. I guess they figured they'd catch the winners on their way home to Beverly Hills.

This spot also makes for an interesting choice. When viewed from a certain angle, a key portion of the advertisement for Constantine, on a building behind the billboard, shows through.



A subliminal message of Freudian significance, no doubt. In case you can't quite the make it out from the photo, George W. Bush's new "caption" reads, "Hell wants him. Heaven won't take him. Earth needs him." Which I think echoes the reasoning of swing voters who went Republican in 2004.