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A Class Apart |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Michael Medved's Hollywood vs. America |
| Author: Benjamin J. Stein |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 2,374 Words, 13,534 Characters |
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Michael Medved's provocative book attempts at its very end to raise a few possible explanations for why the Hollywood product comes out as it does--or rather to raise a few straw men and then knock them down. Medved interestingly raises the possibility that Hollywood is influenced by the chase for the buck, dismisses it, the possibility of a gay conspiracy, dismisses that, and the specter of a Jewish conspiracy, and knocks that down--although with somewhat questionable facts about who really runs studios. (It's a joke that the Japanese really have creative control over Sony-Columbia or that the gentiles at Time have anything to say to the boys running Warner.)
Then what is going on? Why does Hollywood come out as it does? Herewith a few thoughts:
To the question "Why does it tu...
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...ot anyone else. They have no reason to think that they will ever stop making money while thumbing their noses at the values of the community at large. Sharing the outsiders' mindset of their peers in Hollywood has brought them nothing but money and prestige. Why on earth shouldn't they continue to do what makes them happy and pays them so well? What incentive do they have to do anything else?
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