online archive
12:00PM
OCT 1 2007
What are Hollywood values?
David Eldridge (Hull): Hollywood Censors History. From American Heritage, an article on Charlie Chaplin: Banned from America. A review of A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television by David Everitt. One nation, under another God: Why have moviemakers not imagined America under Islamist control? Because it might look too attractive to some in the audience. Minister of Fear: Michael Haneke has built a career out of making violent movies with an unexpected victim — the audience. What are “Hollywood values”? What, if anything, is the message Hollywood lefties are trying to get across? An interview with John Waters on the mainstreaming of gay culture: "I had more fun when it was illegal to be gay”.
