[ImpBill]

Surely this was just chapters one and two. Where can I buy the book. /;-)

[Goldie Lurks]

The "Old Hollywood" did/would have focused on patriotism and heroism. The "New Hollywood" comprised of overpaid, hedonists seeks to shread apart core American values.

Theater box office sales have flat-lined not because of DVD rentals, wide screen television and such. Tickets sales have dropped because the American public has had enough of paying outrageous ticket prices to watch a movie that seeks to politize every event, or hearing a *so called* movie star flapping their gums and using their *so called* stardom as a politcal platform.

The "New Hollywood" is beginning to reap the consquences of shoveling **** down the American public's throat.

[streetpreacher]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1711759/posts

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[beckett]

Hollywood itself is beginning to realize that its influence and importance is waning. I've long held that, from a historical perspective, the high water mark for actors and filmmakers would prove to be from roughly the 30s to the 80s in the 20th century, and that as the newness of movie technology wore off, and as newer technologies (eg, the internet) came online, the status of Hollywood would decline.

I recently read somewhere that many of the people who run that town are saying the same thing. They're discovering that Americans just don't pay much mind to their product, an overabundance of which floods the market. Americans certainly don't feel moved by images on the silver screen the way they once did. The filmmaking process has become too familiar, the limitations and tricks of the medium too obvious. New, highly distributed ways of storytelling are about to eclipse Hollywood altogether, leaving a rump industry to gaze upon its own navel. "Celebrity culture" and hotshot Hollywood "stars" will be as anachronistic, and forgotten, by the middle of the 21st century as Victorian salons are now.