*You knew this was coming. Word of Venezuela’s generosity toward actor Danny Glover hit the U.S.

Congress and has prompted one Republican to speak out in frustration.
As previously reported, Glover’s upcoming film about a slave uprising in Haiti will receive $18 million in funding from the government of Venezuela, headed by longtime U.S.

rival, President Hugo Chavez.
Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla.

, on Tuesday urged Glover to refuse to accept the money based on Chavez’s politics and bold animosity toward the Bush administration.
"Danny Glover should refuse to accept Hugo Chavez's tainted movie deal and instead work with legitimate enterprises, investors and financiers who value freedom, treasure our nation and who won't climb into bed with renegade communist dictators," Mack told the Hollywood Reporter.
Mack said he was saddened that a prominent American like Glover would accept a movie deal with someone like the communist Chavez.

Mack also said Glover was a supporter of Chavez's policies and is a member of the board of the television network Telesur -- a Chavez-funded network that has teamed with Al-Jazeera to spread anti-democratic messages across Latin America.
"To turn to an avowed enemy of the U.S.

, and someone who in his own right has snuffed out dissent and free speech, for movie financing smacks of radicalism and opportunism run amok," Mack said.