[Haemo]

Where are the movies it made a mere 10 years ago, like The 12 monkeys, or Groundhog Day, and so on. You got your teenage movies,you got your gay, effete liberal movies, and a few segmented others but almost nothing that even has the whiff of "patriarchal" normalcy? Are you telling me she doesnt have a point at all? In any good screed there's always a kernel of truth - it's what makes it's so hard to just totally write off. In this case, she's spot on about Hollywood's output becoming less and less palatable to the American consumer.

However, she then proceeds to lambaste them for trying to "sell Americans white-liberal guilt", and call them "dinosaurs" for not becoming more conservative - and thus increasing circulation. However, as I have repeatedly argued, that's not a reaction you're ever going to see out of the Hollywood establishment.

It exists to do exactly what she's lamenting - sell films at odds with the majority of America. It's funded by people who are at odds with the majority of America and relfects its backers, not its consumers. It's classical economic at its best.

[Nonstatist]

It's funded by people who are at odds with the majority of America and relfects its backers

Hollywood was always "at odds" with the majority of America, but it knew who bought the tickets and it had a vigorous censor board. They played with the edges but they toed the line.

The disconnect now has to do with a more powerful and political (read liberal) beauracratic elite (including actors, journalists, academics, etc) who run right over the institutions that should be keeping Hollywood on the tracks, but doesent anymore. So therefore you have a disconnected and underserved customer base.

The reason I accept the writings of the "heretical Housewife" is because there is a fundamental unfairness and dislocation going on here. Major corporations are underserving the public AND losing money, and there seems to be nothing the average person can do but SCREAM.