Posted on 05/11/2010 6:19:37 PM PDT by Nachum
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Hollywood may have some reason to be nervous about President Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to be the next U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Not a whole lot is known about Kagan's judicial philosophy, which in some ways, makes her the perfect pick to win confirmation by the Senate. Her record on issues the industry cares about, though, isn't entirely opaque.
Hollywood's biggest worry about Kagan might be her philosophy on intellectual property matters. As dean of Harvard Law School from 2003 to 2009, she was instrumental in beefing up the school's Berkman Center for Internet & Society by recruiting Lawrence Lessig and others who take a strongly liberal position on "fair use" in copyright disputes.
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The best film makers and craftsmen are aritsts.
Yes. We used to have a lot of them, too. Now we have money making clone mongers that worship bucks instead of art. Te arts are dead. They have no life. We revert back to the politically uninspired leftist controlled dreary world of plain vanilla commercialism and polemic. Sad. I’ll stick with classical music, roots music, older classic film, real art and novels written before 1960. There is so much there and so little here.
There’s still good Art you just have to seek it out. It certainly doesn’t help that good people have ceded the field and the marketplace to the types that you mentioned.
“There’s still good Art you just have to seek it out.”
I just took my boy to see Hal Holbrook do his one man show last week in LA. That was art. He WAS Mark Twain. The timing, his presence, the small business that was done to perfection; that was art. There isn’t enough of that around to interest me much. I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, I’m saying that what passes for the masses...I think they are asses.
And I’m out.
Holbrook has been doing that for over 50 years! On the other matter, I just think it’s countrproductive to complain about a medium that people aren’t willing to participate in.
Holbrook has been doing that for over 50 years!”
Yep. First saw him do it in 1872 at the Mark Taper Forum, he was there back to back with Jame Whitmore as Will Rogers. It was great. I have always been liked theater and music, I have done a great deal of reading and have written some. I just can’t imagine referring to Hollywood today as artistic. I know of no one today who I could comfortably point to and say that here is an artist that will create works that will last.
Except Dylan, but he has already done it, so it is not a call.
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