Stars Fall From Anti-gun Bandwagon
In the heat of summer and apparently in hot pursuit
of publicity, scores of movie and television personalities hopped on the
gun control bandwagon—briefly. When the furor died down, they quit. Actor-Producer
Tom Laughlin, chairman of a Hollywood anti-gun movement billed as “Ten
Thousand Americans for Reasonable Gun Con- trol”, admitted defeat and dejection
in a news report in Film and Tele- vision Daily. Laughlin was quoted as
terming the quitting actors “sum- mer soldiers” and lamenting: “We'd put
them all on network shows. We built the campaign, and then everyone just
became uninter- ested. When the failure set in in Washington, when it was
clear that there was a need for a sustained, organized effort, everyone
became disinterested. “They were all hepped up for 2 weeks. The commitment
could’t last any longer than that. It’s fright- ening to me.” Laughlin
cited as diehards who stuck with his anti-gun movement a “little more than
a handful” includ- ing Producers Richard Zanuck and Robert Blumoffe, Producer-Director
Robert Wise, and film stars Warren Beatty, Candice Bergen, Marlon Brando,
Charlton Heston, Hugh O'Brien, Jill St. John.
The foregoing item is from page 10 of the October, 1968 issue of
American
Rifleman.
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