HOLLYWOOD BABBLE ON

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MY, HOW THE MOVING PICTURES HAVE CHANGED!

THEY SUCK. BUT TV IS EVEN WORSE. ESPECIALLY THE NEWS

And It Ain't Just Me! It's Other Old Farts, Too!

Hollywood back in the day was run by nice (and not so nice) Jewish boys trying to entertain and assimilate with nice (and not so nice) goys, basically by selling them what they already believed about themselves. It worked out pretty well: The Hollywoodniks got rich, got assimilated, and the hix in the stix didn't nix their pix, they got entertained and enlightened as to American values by commie writers and directors. Working together, they all beat the Depression, the Nazi's and the Nips, and everyone lived happily ever after. A real Hollywood ending.

Then along came McCarthy and Nixon and Reagan and the Bushies. They wanted to redefine America in a most unAmerican way. Rather than entertain and enlighten, assimilate and reconcile, they used the media to sow anger and hatred, fear and envy, paranoia and prejudice. It worked pretty well, for them. Not so much for us. We're only just coming out of that long nightmare, and it's hard to shake it off.

People are waking up, though. They really don't like the residual odors left behind by the Right. They're tired of hearing the same old sh*t recycled endlessly in the formerly mainstream corporate media. They're tuning it out in droves. The new medium is the Internet, but its' potential has hardly been tapped.

We should be using the Web to reach out to everybody, to talk to each other across all borders and boundaries as if we were face to face, instead of displaying our wonky prowess, our awesomely arcane acid wit, and our desperate desire to shock and titillate. So far, there's no Harry Cohn or Louis B. Mayer of the 'Net. Let's hope there never is. But let's hope there's no Joseph Goebbels or Rupert Murdoch, either.

Hollywood was the invention of a few individuals; outsiders, most of them, looking to get in. Print and television news have been taken over by soulless corporations controlled by people who are already in, trying to shut the rest of us out. The struggle between those controlling, and killing the "MSM," and the wee little bloggers would make a great movie, if people made great movies any more.

Hildy, get me re-write!


(This was in response to this: )

DIGBY'S "HULLABALOO"
"Reflections On The Summer of Shark"
What I learned in the dark.

' It strikes me as a bit odd that the infotainment complex is hitting the fear button so hard right now. I was always told that during the depression Hollywood made a lot of fantasy and upbeat comedy because people wanted an escape. I'm not sure that isn't true now. I don't watch a whole lot of TV for relaxation, but when I do I certainly don't want to watch something that's going to make me feel more fear and anxiety than I already do. But the humiliation rituals on reality TV and the violence in the movies right now are just mind-boggling --- I watched a Mamet flick the other night that just about made me sick. I don't know about you, but I feel as if our society is in a sour, sour place right now --- and justifiably so. It doesn't seem like pumping up the anxiety and fear can be good for people who are already stressed out beyond belief. '
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(cross-posted at Democracy For California by cosanostradamus)


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