Actually, Hollywood has been historically good for America. It has spread American ideas and culture abroad, and it has been a huge money maker for our country.
But I sympathize with those who would like to see Hollywood die. Instead of spreading ideas like freedom and the American way all around the world, or American style humor and romance, it is spreading sexual license, perversion, and hatred of America. It still is making a lot of money for our country, improving our balance of payments, and providing a lot of jobs, but the people who are running the industry today are mostly a bunch of sick, self-hating, sorry excuses for human beings.
I don’t know what it would take to bring Hollywood back to its senses, but that would certainly be preferable to watching it destroy itself as it tries to bring down the country with it.
No ‘I Love New York III’?
90 years old? Yep, the end is near.
The film industry hauled in almost 10 billion dollars domestically last year, God only knows how much TV hauled in. The impending demise of Hollywood is their greatest fiction.
He may be right.
Just like the news media is being churned and thrown-over by new ways of reporting and disseminating the news, the same thing will happen to the entertainment media.
The little guy will be able to broadcast television shows and make movies and, eventually, compete with Hollywood.
Already most of the celebrity function has become unhinged from the “movie star” world. Britney, Paris, supermodels, myspace, etc. will continue to provide the new tabloids with the new celebrity chatter.
The days of having to pitch a show to studio bosses is over. Even George Lucas says he is now going to make films the new way-—low budget, for streaming on the internet or whatever.
Hollywood is so yesterday.
The only thing I’m missing is 24.
It’s been a crap product for the last 25 years anyway.
Hollyweird would’ve been bankrupt a decade ago if the copyrighted works of old that they continue to profit from had lapsed into the public domain AS WAS AGREED at the time of creation and sponsorship.
They have “classics” made by dead people that still bring in the dollars on cable, broadcast tv, home video, and limited theatrical rerlease, plus merchandising.
There aren’t as many “classics” from the past 40 years. The goal today is make your money back in the first week or bury it.
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It’s kind of eerie how quiet China is. With all their new economy and brains and all that space program they ought to be producing some music and stuff to sell to the rest of the world. But it’s completely silent. Do they prohibit music and singing?