Of all the criticisms to make of Rudy Giuliani, his touting of his support from a few Hollywood actors seems like a pretty light one. But Soren Dayton thinks it’s an unwise move:

And that’s why you have to wonder why Rudy Giuliani is dropping endorsements from famous Hollywood actors like Robert Duvall and Ron Silver this week. I mean, the Leno thing puts the whole Hollywood story on Fred Thompson. Does Rudy want a part of the spotlight? Is he just another divo, like his late pal Pavaratti? (I didn’t know that they were friends. I admire that, and friendship deserves memorialization) But should Rudy be reminding us that he is a Hollywood-loving, (effete?) opera-loving New Yorker?

Do you have to loathe Hollywood to be a good conservative? Can’t you just roll your eyes and hope for some non-preachy good movies?

If a Republican candidate were endorsed by any of the Hollywood folks who have openly touted their staunchly liberal views – Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, George Clooney, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell, Michael Moore, etc. — well, that would be a different story. But do vast swaths of conservative America have that much of a beef with Robert Duvall? Ron Silver? The guy spoke at the 2004 Republican convention.

Isn’t it maybe a good thing that a Republican candidate can start with not everybody in the entertainment business hating his guts?

I note Laura Ingraham’s book was “Shut Up And Sing,” not, “Shut Up and Go Away.” The gripe I have with Hollywood actors telling us how to vote is that their life experience is mostly being paid unimaginable amounts of money to dress up and pretend to be somebody else in front of a camera, and that doesn’t really make them a policy expert. (If Fred Thompson says he knows how to deal with the worsening flight delays at America’s airports because he worked with John McClane in the 1990 Christmas Crisis at Dulles Airport surrounding the extradition of Gen. Ramon Esperanza, it’s all over, man.)

UPDATE: I’m told that Robert Duvall attended the first inauguration of President George W. Bush as the president’s guest, and backed Bush’s reelection in 2004.