 This became a part of the campaign issue over Hollywood's "pervasiveness of violence", centered around Silver Screen Management Board's approval of the highly violent horror-suspense film "The Hitcher", when Bush ran for president in 2000.The original Silver Screen Partners, L.P. was organized by New York film investment broker Roland W. Betts to fund movies for HBO in 1982.The limited partnerships (13,000) sold through EF Hutton were oversubscribed and raised $83 million.