I just read his wiki bio and it said he was political, but a liberal who despised other liberals was the way they put it.
An absolutely brilliant playwright and screen/tv writer. He wrote the classic “Network” which predicted all of this.
Interesting to see Neil Simon pumping his fist in approval.
Simon wouldn’t dare try it now.
It was the AIDS crisis when Hollywood began to believe in its own PR and saintly goodness. Let us not forget that despite all the propaganda about it striking anyone at any time, the transmission of AIDS was largely down to IV drug users and gay males - two things in abundance in and around Hollywood and San Francisco but not so much elsewhere. Because the hated Reagan was in office suddenly AIDS became political.
The red ribbons were busted out and the preaching commenced. It hasn’t stopped.