Richard Gere Has a Theory Why Mainstream Hollywood Dumped Him | Vanity Fair

Richard Gere Has a Theory Why Mainstream Hollywood Dumped Him | Vanity Fair: That factor: China, the country that finances much of Hollywood these days. Not so coincidentally, it’s also the country that Gere—a practicing Tibetan Buddhist and longtime friend of the religion’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama—infamously disparaged during the 1993 Oscars when he went off-script while presenting the art-direction category.