Orrin Hatch song in Ocean’s 12
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As you may or may not know, senator Orrin ‘Terminator’ Hatch, one of Hollywood’s most favoured promoters, also fancies himself as a song-writer.
Hatch has fronted some of the entertainment industry’s most flagrant (fragrant?) attempts to stomp p2p and pillory file-sharers, the INDUCE Act being one of the best-known examples.
Hatch wanted to terminate file sharers’ computer by blowing them up, quite literally.
He’s also infamous for making grotesque misstatements about p2p file sharing and technologies which, somehow, always seem to benefit the record labels or movie studios who have contributed so handsomely to his political coffers.
Back to his musical career, Souls Along the Way, “the love song Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch wrote for political rival Sen. Ted Kennedy and his wife a few years ago, has found its way to Hollywood in the box office hit Ocean’s 12’,” says the Salt Lake Tribune.
Sadly, the song didn’t make the soundtrack CD to the”hip heist thriller,” but Hatch who, according to the report, “has earned thousands of dollars in royalties as he hobnobs with stars and manages to persuade some well-known artists to perform his works” is well chuffed anyway.
His song is heard in the background as Las Vegas casino boss Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), “crashes a wedding party to demand the gang of crooks repay his stolen loot,” says the Tribune write-up, going on:
“In a subliminal reference to Hatch, the groom at the wedding is Virgil Malloy (Casey Affleck), one of the ‘Mormon Malloy’ brothers from Utah.”
Utah composer and former Springdale Mayor Phillip Bimstein is quoted as saying, “I thought it was a little endearing that here was one of the most powerful senators in the United States and yet he’s still promoting himself in the same way any songwriter would.”
On September 11th, Hatch released the single, America United.
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See:-
stomp p2p – RIAA collapses INDUCE talks, p2pnet, October 8, 2004
musical career – Hatch’s ‘Soul’ music a Hollywood hit, Salt Lake Tribune, December 18, 2004
December 21st, 2004 at 11:40 pm
bwhahahahahahah, sure he is.
December 22nd, 2004 at 8:09 pm
if i had know there was so much money being a shady politician, i would never had started selling crack. Politics is where the real money is at, and all that i would have to do is sell out the publics future to big business for my own personal gains.
(i dont really sell crack, but i hope you understand the point im trying to make)