RED LEFT COAST (denudes Follywood-lefties' cover as selfless defenders of freedom)

NY POST ^ | July 17, 2005 | HARRY STEIN

[Liz]

RED STAR OVER HOLLYWOOD: The Film Colony’s Long Romance With The Left By Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh

.....leftist activist, (Radosh once) set out to write a book on the Rosenberg spy case intended to exonerate Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.......what he and his co-author found convinced them that, at least in Julius' case, the guilty verdict was entirely appropriate, a fact subsequently confirmed by the release of long-secret Soviet files.

That book cost Radosh a legion of old friends and left him a pariah in leftist academic circles, where ideological purity is too often prized over honest scholarship. But the experience was life-altering, the beginning of the end of his lifelong infatuation with an ideology he has likened to a religion.

....Radosh takes on another myth assiduously propagated by the American left, along with many in the media: that all those victimized by the blacklist of the 1950's were innocent idealists guilty of nothing more than wanting a better world..........the truth is infinitely more complicated and nuanced.

But neither are they under any illusions about some of those in Hollywood targeted by the committee. For, contrary to well-honed mythology, the Communist Party, to which many of these were intensely devoted, was far from benign.

Controlled by the Comintern out of Moscow, operating largely in the shadows and enforcing strict party discipline, the American Communist Party's single overriding aim was to serve the ever-shifting interests of Stalin's Soviet Union. In only a handful of cases were those loyal to the party actually able to shape the content of movies, yet they achieved considerable success infiltrating Hollywood's powerful trade unions.

Moreover, through alliances with naive liberals in organizations like the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, they succeeded in casting the party and its intentions as mainstream and democratic.

[Liz]

The outing of Hollywooden continues. You can safely bet your bucket of popcorn with extra butter that the Malibu groupies aren't gonna like this book----they'll be sucking up lines like crazy (smirk). Hollywarped makes movies for an elite, insular audience contemptuous of American values, composed of atheists and Christian-haters. The Red Coast's Secular Taliban and the Moral Relativist Shock Troops include:

-- Abortion-worshipping Feminazis

-- The fully fornicating Playboy-Cosmo faction

-- Secular humanists who despise Christians

-- The ACLU-Christian baiters

-- Planned Parenthood and the population control cabal

-- The gay-transgender-pedophilia anti-family element

All of them aided and abetted by a compliant liberal media, agenda-driven academia which inculcates the Nation's youth with the idealogy along with stealth Christian-haters in Hollywarped---who proselytize audiences 24/7 without their knowledge or consent.

For years, they've chipped away at Western civilzation under the guise of "artistic expression." The politically correct films, TV and music are loaded up with gratuitous sex and violence, then Hollywarped types get thoughtful and start talking about "artistic meaning." Artistic meaning, my Aunt Tilly. Hollywarped's MO includes endless poselytizing, continuous brainwashing of audiences into Christian-hating and American-hating.

Follywood firmly believes that 24/7 of their sexually salacious and violent TV, movies and music are not harming kids and the culture. OTOH, Hollywarped also believes----with the religious fervor of Tammy Faye Baker---- that a single 15-sec commercial will compel tens of millions of Americans into thousands of stores to buy billions of dollars worth of soap, soup, breakfast cereal and cars.

They can't have it both ways.

[Izzy Dunne]

Follywood firmly believes that 24/7 of their sexually salacious and violent TV, movies and music are not harming kids and the culture. OTOH, Hollywarped also believes----with the religious fervor of Tammy Faye Baker---- that a single 15-sec commercial will compel tens of millions of Americans into thousands of stores to buy billions of dollars worth of soap, soup, breakfast cereal and cars.

--- Interesting take - they want you to believe that what they do has no effect on kids, yet they prove again and again that they can influence adults to buy the right kind of beer and shaving cream.

[Liz]

".......the Rosenberg's guilty verdict was entirely appropriate, a fact subsequently confirmed by the release of long-secret Soviet files........"

---they still can't say "Venona"---


More on the secrets revealed by Venona----Ten Years Later


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1445003/posts

[Liz]

I hope more people get the message, that Hollywood's duplicity should be challenged.

[finnigan2]

I am amused and bemused by recent attempts on the part of certain Hollywood elites to paint their recent releases as really being subtle portrayals of "bad guys" like Bush, as they point out minor lines of dialog where they have oh so cleverly inserted their allusions to current events.
Of course, these scenes are so disguised that only the true left wing intellectuals get the point, while going way over the heads of the dumb red state hicks who wouldn't understand the point being made by the movie makers allegorical subtlety.
Such claims have so far been made for the latest Star Wars flick, War of the Worlds, Million Dollar Baby and The Crusades but I'm sure there must be more I haven't heard of.
This is a pathetic balancing act: How to claim that you are a true, left wing "conscientious objector" so as to remain on the Hollywood cocktail party circuit A List, while at the same time not over hyping your movie as a thinly disguised political rant which would kill it at the box office?
Hollywood has lost it's way. It is out of touch with mainstream America and it's vanity and pride will continue to hurt it at the box office unless it gives up it's love affair with it's increasingly left wing agenda.

[Liz]

Follywood might well ask "what's the matter with socially relevant films?"


The answer is plenty.


It's intellectually dishonest to use the entertainment milieu to proselytize audiences, to change people's thinking without their knowledge or consent. People go to movies to be entertained. To prey on that, to manipulate audiences into one's agenda sub rosa, is not exactly praiseworthy---even if the filmmaking was praiseworthy.


Case in point: Watching an AMC retrospective on the successful Planet of the Apes movie series (I had not seen the original releases which were based on an obscure book by French author Pierre Boulle who also wrote Bridge on the River Kwai), I was immediately struck with the film's attempts to insinuate an on-screen agenda.

Yet googling old reviews of the film, no one advertised, or picked up, that the series was "socially relevant."


However, during the retrospective viewing, I was shocked (well, not really) to hear one of the producers acknowledge they calculatedly intended to use the film's theme to advance their agenda.


We should remember, too, that "subliminal advertising" was outlawed, due to its insidious nature.

[saveliberty]

Sigh. I really see very little difference between Communism (dictatorship, total control and 100 Million dead) and fascism (dictatorship, total control and 30 Million dead).

The left made excuses for Hitler even after Hitler and Stalin divided Poland. Finally, they couldn't deny the inhumanity any more, even though the stories seemed to horrible to be true. And yet they were. Suddenly, right wing in Germany became right wing elsewhere, even denying the commonalities (state control, state re-distribution, persecution of the Jews, Catholics, etc.). Still Lenin, Stalin, etc. get the "get out of jail free" card because it's too horrible to contemplate that the philosophy of redistribution is based on fundamental human intolerance and anti Semitism.

Even in the 70s, the current head of a liberal women's college made an assertion that she believed that life behind the Iron Curtain wasn't so bad and that the people didn't know any other way. I was appalled as we actually had interactions with people living in the prison without rules, and our take was much different.

But it made this person so much happier to pretend that the inhumanity did not occur.

[Chgogal]

"Follywood firmly believes that 24/7 of their sexually salacious and violent TV, movies and music are not harming kids and the culture. OTOH, Hollywarped also believes----with the religious fervor of Tammy Faye Baker---- that a single 15-sec commercial will compel tens of millions of Americans into thousands of stores to buy billions of dollars worth of soap, soup, breakfast cereal and cars."

Exactly!

[saveliberty]

Exactly. There is no subtlety. It's as though the script writers are required to use the lalaland cartoon checklist when creating "good" and "bad" characters.

[Desdemona]

Yet googling old reviews of the film, no one advertised, or picked up, that the series was "socially relevant."

IT would be interesting to go back and read reviews of other films as well. Say, "The Philadelphia Story." Watching that with open eyes reals quite an agenda.

[SSR1]

A good example of pushing an agenda down our throats is the new Land of the Dead movie by Romero. I never heard a review which did not mention how Romero was pushing his agenda. It's the same old one thought. Republicans are zombies and all us cool folks have got to stop them. I always liked the first Night of the Living Dead. It did have a message to it, but Romero was not the big director he is today so he had to actually make it interesting while pushing his agenda. Now he does not even pretend. The best message to come out of a movie this year was Team America. That was a funny movie and made fun of everyone Right and Left.

[saveliberty]

The good news is that the Left is for questioning authority except its own. LOL!

[ConsentofGoverned]

"I never heard a review which did not mention how Romero was pushing his agenda."

Many Americans have joined the new conspiracy not thinking about hollywood or the junk they make- the worst thing they can imagine is the Bumpkins in heartland USA stop even thinking about them and living as if hollywood and its various other outlets DO NOT MATTER and are not seen..kinda like 19 weeks of lower movie attendance..

the left has killed it's own children once again by making the American consumer go elsewhere..lets hope more of us common folks join the society "COLD SHOULDER" of these scum.

[wayoverontheright]

This is just my opinion.

Hollywood stars suffer from "dirty money syndrome". For the most part, their success is owed to genetic good fortune, and their job requires them to literally live a lie, that is, purport to be something they are not. There is profound psychological erosion here, as over time they lose their ability to distinguish not only reality from unreality, but WHO they happen to be at any given moment. Thus it becomes impossible for them to satisfy the need for SELF ACTUALIZATION, as "self" becomes more and a more and more elusive destination.

Their good fortune deriving from (to them) unexplained providence, they are propelled toward the conclusion that they owe NOTHING to capitalism. America being what it is becomes anathema to their psychological well-being.

[Liz]

PAULINE KAEL REVIEW (Kael was clueless and sap-happy, the movie guru of her day)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Philip Barry wrote this romantic comedy for Katharine Hepburn, shaping it for her tense patrician beauty and her eccentricities, and she had her greatest popular triumph in it on Broadway (in 1939) and on the screen.


There's conventional Broadway shoddiness at its center: the material plays off Hepburn's public personality, pulling her down from her pedestal. As Tracy Lord, a snow maiden and a phony—which is how the movie public regarded Hepburn, according to the exhibitors who in 1938 had declared her "box-office poison"—she gets her comeuppance.

The priggish, snooty Tracy is contemptuous of everyone who doesn't live up to her high standards (and that includes her father, played by John Halliday, and her ex-husband, played by Cary Grant); in the course of the action, she slips from those standards herself, learns to be tolerant of other people's lapses, and discovers her own "humanity."


Shiny and unfelt and smart-aleck-commercial as the movie is, it's almost irresistibly entertaining—one of the high spots of M-G-M professionalism. There isn't much real wit in the lines, and there's no feeling of spontaneity, yet the engineering is so astute that the laughs keep coming.


This is a paste diamond with more flash and sparkle than a true one. The director, George Cukor, has never been more heartlessly sure of himself. With James Stewart, who took the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as the journalist who has a sudden romantic fling with Tracy, and Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young, Mary Nash, Henry Daniell, and Virginia Weidler. The additions by the adaptor, Donald Ogden Stewart, are brief and witty; Hepburn's gowns are by Adrian. Produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

[Calpernia]

The Liberal

[finnigan2]

" It's as though the script writers are required to use the lalaland cartoon checklist when creating "good" and "bad" characters."

- Speaking of characters, I have noticed another recent trend in some movies to employ well known leftist activists in supporting roles without highlighting or advertising their involvement. I believe this is because Hollywood is well aware that many people would never spend their money on a film if they knew that these notorious leftists were in the films in question. Recently, I was sandbagged at two new films that I had paid good money to see. In one, Alex Baldwin suddenly appeared and in the other Tim Robbins popped up. I would never had gone to those films if I knew they were in them.
I resent Hollywood elites deliberately employing these leftist radical and, in effect, endorsing their views, while hiding their presence from a public many of whom would hit the backers in their pocketbook by boycotting these movies if they knew of their involvement.
I suppose they think this is a good joke on people who oppose these clowns, but it's typical of the contempt with which they hold 50% of their audience.

[Carry_Okie]

Follywood firmly believes that 24/7 of their sexually salacious and violent TV, movies and music are not harming kids and the culture. OTOH, Hollywarped also believes----with the religious fervor of Tammy Faye Baker---- that a single 15-sec commercial will compel tens of millions of Americans into thousands of stores to buy billions of dollars worth of soap, soup, breakfast cereal and cars.

I've been saying this for years. That some trial lawyer hasn't gone after the extensive psychological and market research done in support of commercials and targeted it toward the debauchery of programming shows how well disciplined the left really is.

Hollywood executives should be the tobacco executives of the 21st Century, except instead of just a settlement there should be jailtime.

[Liz]

.......some trial lawyer (should go) after the extensive psychological and market research done in support of commercials and targeted it toward the debauchery of programming shows how well disciplined the left really is. Hollywood executives should be the tobacco executives of the 21st Century, except instead of just a settlement there should be jailtime.........

Excellent point-----in point of fact, Hollywarped's activities give off the distinct odor of organized crime, as defined in RICO laws.....individuals engaged in multiple conspiracies, repeated over and over, and pocketing big bucks in the process.

Adding to their criminal profile, Follywood types act like textbook sociopaths and scam artists------completely without qualms or conscience------gaining absolute control over people's thoughts and actions---picking their pockets while acting like philanthropists.

[Carry_Okie]

Excellent point-----in point of fact, Hollywarped's activities give off the distinct odor of organized crime, as defined in RICO laws.....individuals engaged in multiple conspiracies, repeated over and over, and pocketing big bucks in the process.

Particularly as regards dissemination of "news."

Follywood types act like textbook sociopaths and scam artists------completely without qualms or conscience------gaining absolute control over people's thoughts and actions---picking their pockets while acting like philanthropists.

I wouldn't call it "absolute control," but it is certainly effective control. Witness the speed with which protestors mouth soundbites.

I have noted by switching radio channels and TV that even the order in which individual stories in news programs progress is very similar from station to station, that order being designed to convey an editorial opinion. The editors at CBS News in particular are very talented communists.