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blog.spout.com - 11/30/2008
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I had heard a rumor about this earlier this morning, but Mike Jones at The Circuit is the first to confirm it: Rich Raddon has resigned from his post as the director of the Los Angeles Film Festival. Raddon, who is a practicing Mormon, first submitted his resignation last week , when it was ...
hollywood-elsewhere.com - 11/30/2008
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Contrary to what MCN's David Poland reported on
11.14, L.A. Film Festival director Rich Raddon did not,...
I'm told, tender his resignation to the FIND board a day earlier over the revelation that he'd donated $1500 is support of Proposition...
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... over his financial support for Proposition 8, the California law passed earlier this month that denies marriage rights to gay couples. Raddon is Mormon, so his support for that law -- and the threat of boycotts against the LAFF so long as he remained in charge of that festival -- has raised a major debate over the limits of diversity, and whether religious minorities deserve the same tolerance as sexual minorities. -- Hollywood Reporter, Jeffrey Wells, Karina Longworth, Dirty Harry 2. A poll commissioned by the ...
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