Directors are many things … but not lobbyists. And “Boys Don’t Cry” director Kimberly Peirce might want to brush up on her lobbying skills before her next visit to Washington.
After screening her latest drama, “Stop Loss,” at the Landmark E Street Cinema, Peirce conceded she wasn’t meeting any politicians while in town (gosh, why else would anyone else visit our town?!?).
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“I don’t know what to do,” she confessed. “Someone has to show me the ropes!”
Her film chronicles the story of Brandon King (played by actor Ryan Phillippe), an Iraq war hero ordered back to the Middle East after he had already settled back home following his first stint abroad.
Many attendees expressed shock that the stop-loss policy was in effect. “I just didn’t know they were doing this to our soldiers,” said one audience member. “It’s slavery.”
After the event, one journalist told Peirce that, were the filmmaker ever to muster up the strength to go lobbying, she ought to first try hitting up Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill. “She knows George Soros and he’s rich!”
