商业报道:好来坞明星为奥巴马助选

Celebs invade the DNC 好来坞明星为奥巴马拉票

Hollywood stars including Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner¹ and Chevy Chase traveled to Denver to show support for Obama.

Well, it looks like the Hollywood left their hills and are flew on over to Denver for the DNC. I’m talking big names, there are Ben Affleck, we are talking Shawn Pan, Steven Spielberg. These were guys with a lot of money, they are backing Obama it looks like. With us now, Andy Serwer, managing editor of Fortune Magazine. Literally² I mean the celebrities³ and droves at the DNC, what is going on?

They went from the hills of the mountains, (The hills of mountains.) there they go. (That is better than mine.) that’s no, it’s just adding on to, yours is good. Well, listen, these conventions have become sort of mega what, star kind of events. No. 1, I think that you know, politics and celebrity⁴ have been merging⁵ in our society for quite a well now, and so as we seeing more and more celebrities going these conventions, it’s not a big surprise, No. 1. No. 2, you are gonna see more celebrities at democratic convention, and republican one because let’s face at Hollywood, is a left-wing democrat⁶ libber town, there is no question about that. And you know, you see things like the White House correspondent’s dinner becoming more and more sort of like a red carpet event, (Yeah.) this is another point to make about these two worlds colliding. On the other hand, you know really is some business said has been done in terms of Hollywood, and politicians, as you know, Poppy I mean, Hollywood is a business, so they have business interest so they have to look after theses things.

I gonna ask, is this the power of O, Obama and Oprah it seems, people follow Oprah wherever she goes, whatever she says, now there are a lot of them backing Obama. I mean, is this, this is the first we’ve seen with this much celebrity backing of a candidate, isn’t it.

Yeah, I think that’s probably true, and I mean maybe it is like, you know, Chicago becoming the new LA, I don’t really think so. Listen, you know, they’ve always said that Washington is Hollywood for ugly people, so maybe the beautiful people are coming here, they will give me a little show. But I think you know, when you talk about the real business’s going on, first of all, a lot of these stars will tell you that they really are politically concerned, I mean, someone like Shawn Pan, L. M., really has been involved, the ethnic⁷ same thing, these guys have been doing this quite well now. But also you know, in terms of their bosses, the studio chiefs, and the moguls, and the producers, they actually, you know, concern the backing involved on the political process for a couple of real practical reasons. No. 1, you know, censorship, No. 2, tax breaks for deals, dealing⁸ with copyright issues when it comes to China. So you know, if you wanna have a cocktail⁹ party and get the politicians there, not just Obama, maybe the vice¹⁰ president, maybe the future secretary of state,etc . You know, it might not be a bad idea to show them and let them know that you got some ideas, and that what you get your foot involved in the door there.

Ok, you know, on the foot set that though, can it ever be banned for a candidate, is it banned for Obama to have all of these celebrities backing that is making the front pages of tabloids¹¹ and you know, this gossip magazines if you will because, remember that McCain ad, he’s the biggest celebrity in the world. I mean they are using it against him.

And then Paris Hilton came right back, of course it did her a little video thing, you know, I think, you know, it’s kind of a delicate ballots¹², obviously, if you just gonna hang out, pull side the LA all the time, if you are Barack Obama, that’s not gonna work very well, and he’s very well of that of course. And of course, it can backfire for the stars as well, I mean who can forget the dickercy checks, when they came out with that song that was anti-president Bush, and you know, there are country band, a lot of audience’s reacted very very negative to that. So I think both sides have to be a little careful. You know, what can you say, you know, if you got, you know, Hollywood’s stars coming to see you though, you can’t wanna answer the door. Don’t you think?

All right, Andy, thank you very much. I appreciated it. Andy Serwer, managing editor of Fortune Magazine, and check out the piece about this and more by Richard S. Fortune writer is on fortune.com

1 garner   

v.收藏；取得

参考例句：

• He has garnered extensive support for his proposals.他的提议得到了广泛的支持。
• Squirrels garner nuts for the winter.松鼠为过冬储存松果。

2 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

3 celebrities   

n.（尤指娱乐界的）名人( celebrity的名词复数 )；名流；名声；名誉

参考例句：

• He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
• a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目

4 celebrity   

n.名人，名流；著名，名声，名望

参考例句：

• Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
• He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。

5 merging   

合并（分类）

参考例句：

• Many companies continued to grow by merging with or buying competing firms. 许多公司通过合并或收买竞争对手的公司而不断扩大。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
• To sequence by repeated splitting and merging. 用反复分开和合并的方法进行的排序。

6 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

7 ethnic   

adj.人种的，种族的，异教徒的

参考例句：

• This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
• The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。

8 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

9 cocktail   

n.鸡尾酒；餐前开胃小吃；混合物

参考例句：

• We invited some foreign friends for a cocktail party.我们邀请了一些外国朋友参加鸡尾酒会。
• At a cocktail party in Hollywood,I was introduced to Charlie Chaplin.在好莱坞的一次鸡尾酒会上，人家把我介绍给查理·卓别林。

10 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

11 tabloids   

n.小报，通俗小报（版面通常比大报小一半，文章短，图片多，经常报道名人佚事）( tabloid的名词复数 )；药片

参考例句：

• The story was on the front pages of all the tabloids. 所有小报都在头版报道了这件事。
• The story made the front page in all the tabloids. 这件事成了所有小报的头版新闻。

12 ballots   

n.投票表决( ballot的名词复数 )；选举；选票；投票总数v.（使）投票表决( ballot的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• They're counting the ballots. 他们正在计算选票。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The news of rigged ballots has rubbed off much of the shine of their election victory. 他们操纵选票的消息使他们在选举中获得的胜利大为减色。 来自《简明英汉词典》