This idea, should it be turned into actual policy, would have tremendous implications for every interest group, enviros high among them. Candidates and parties no longer dependent on industry money would be far more likely to pursue environmental policies that industries find abhorrent. The answer appears to be not much. Other green celebs come more easily to mind. Robert Redford on western land issues, Bette Midler on New York City community gardens, Ted Danson on oceans, Ed Begley Jr .
Most people draw a blank.
So one must look deeper into his film oeuvre . Specifically, to the 1978 film Heaven Can Wait, about a snafu at the pearly gates that sends a dead football player back to earth in the body of a slimy corporate executive, for which Beatty picked up Academy Award nominations for best actor, best director, and best adapted screen play. The reincarnated character, Leo Farnsworth, sets about sprucing up the executive's mess of a life, including arguing against investing in an oil refinery that might threaten the local environment. Where Beatty's Bulworth is a born-again liberal spouting gospel on campaign finance, Beatty's Farnsworth is an avatar of the green investing craze of the late 1990s. Let's not stop there.