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HOLLYWOOD DOES IT AGAIN
The American Partisan ^ | 3 February 1976 | Jennfier King (aka TheRightStuff)

Posted on 02/02/2006 8:23:41 PM PST by MrBallroom

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In Memory of the Fallen (9-11-2001)Hollywood Does It Again
by Jennifer King, Managing Editor

February 3, 2006

"The Heretical Housewife"

Managing Editor Jennifer KingLiberals have become so predictable, it’s almost boring prognosticating what they’ll do next. Anything to poke a stick in the eye of the unlettered bourgeoisie. All efforts must be aimed at insulting plebian Red America.

Thus, at the “Golden Globe” awards, the alleged precursor to the Oscars, the winners included a plethora of tediously tendentious offerings. Brokeback Mountain, a movie about gay sheepherders whose illicit lust destroys both of their heterosexual marriages, won for best drama, best director, best original song (which some wag dubbed, “Homos on the Range”) and best screenplay. Actress Felicity Huffman won best actress for her portrayal of a transsexual man undergoing a sex change operation. Actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman won best actor for his portrayal of Truman Capote, a gay man who deeply involved himself with notorious drifters who had murdered an entire family in Kansas. Rachel Weisz won best supporting actress for her work in The Constant Gardener, a LeCarre take on the evils of Big Pharmaceutical. George Clooney’s film, Syriana, was a conspiratorial take on Iraq and Big Oil. Tiresome.

The film industry is in precipitous decline, even in “Old Europe” which should be anxious to depart with their Euros for the chance to see their version of America vindicated. In Germany, home of Mohammed Atta, movie going has seen a 20.6% decline. In Spain, it is 15%. In France, 10%. In the United States, only 9% of the population goes regularly to the movies. In the 1940s, that number was 60%.

The industry studiously avoids examples of good films which make serious money. C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, the Lord of the Rings series and The Passion of the Christ should have shown Hollywood that movies with a good moral message (and underlying Christian themes) would do well in theatres. Nevertheless, the industry continues to bleed away dollars trying to sell Americans on the triad of white liberal guilt, corporate corruption and the evils of religion.

The parallels with the news media are inescapable. As The New York Times, the Orlando Sentinel, and other papers continue to shrink in volume and ad copy, one would assume that they would examine their bottom line and perhaps adjust their journalists accordingly. Nay, they grow increasingly shrill, thrashing about like a dinosaur caught in the tar pits.

Their anger propels them to new heights of absurdity - available everyday on the web pages of fevered leftwingers, weekly in the editorial pages of the increasingly marginalized papers and monthly in the new releases from Hollywood.

Eventually, the bean counters should have their day. We can all anticipate it with joy. ***

© 2006 Jennifer King

COPYRIGHT © 2006 BY THE AMERICAN PARTISAN
All writers retain rights to their work.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: agendas; brokeback; films; goldenglobes; hollyweird; hollywood; hollywoodleftists; hollywoodsewerpipe; homosexuality; liberalism; liberals; media; mountain; oscars
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Written by TheRightStuff and posted by her boss, MrBallroom for your reading pleasure.
1 posted on 02/02/2006 8:23:43 PM PST by MrBallroom
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To: MrBallroom

1976???

-Dan

2 posted on 02/02/2006 8:28:43 PM PST by Flux Capacitor (Trust me. I know what I'm doing.)
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To: Flux Capacitor

1976 - What do you mean???


3 posted on 02/02/2006 8:30:37 PM PST by MrBallroom (US MARINES: Preserving freedoms of great Americans like you and ungrateful MSM whores since 1775!)
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To: MrBallroom

I think "The Heretical Housewife" should go back to the kitchen and stop writing idiotic screeds like that. The last thing conservatism needs is to be associated with whiny, snide and empty-headed drivel - liberals already have a monopoly on shrill, whining tripe, so why do we feel the need to stoop to their level?


4 posted on 02/02/2006 8:31:15 PM PST by Haemo
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To: MrBallroom
Ah, the perpetually adolescent Hollywood, what bores they are.

Where is the imagination? The art? The talent?

And where is the mystery, why do we have to know everything they think, their childhood traumas, their addictions, who they boink, how the boink, or if the wear undies?
5 posted on 02/02/2006 8:32:07 PM PST by roses of sharon ("I would rather men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one". ) (Cato the Elder)
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To: Haemo

I see that while most Freepers are reasonable, thoughtful folks, that from my experience a year ago writing the Terri Schiavo piece "ENDING THE MADNESS", I learned just how mean-spirited folks can be on both sides of the aisle. With the last screed I read, it seems to stil be alive and well.

6 posted on 02/02/2006 8:33:50 PM PST by MrBallroom (US MARINES: Preserving freedoms of great Americans like you and ungrateful MSM whores since 1775!)
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To: Haemo

Interesting first post.......


7 posted on 02/02/2006 8:34:35 PM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: MrBallroom

Hollywood trolls!


8 posted on 02/02/2006 8:34:47 PM PST by roses of sharon ("I would rather men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one". ) (Cato the Elder)
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To: Haemo
Sniff, Sniff. I smell ozone.
9 posted on 02/02/2006 8:35:52 PM PST by COEXERJ145 (Despite Popular Opinion, Tom Tancredo Does Not Support Deporting Illegal Aliens.)
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To: MrBallroom
You dated the article "3 February 1976".
10 posted on 02/02/2006 8:36:27 PM PST by COEXERJ145 (Despite Popular Opinion, Tom Tancredo Does Not Support Deporting Illegal Aliens.)
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To: roses of sharon

Nicely put. This is why the only television I watch is Law & Order and CSI. These shows have the WRITING as the star with expendable and often-replaced cast members. The fact that we are now FINALLY being offered entertainment that is entertaining BECAUSE it is thought-provoking, only reinforcesmy strong opinions for these shows and against just about everything else.

11 posted on 02/02/2006 8:36:43 PM PST by MrBallroom (US MARINES: Preserving freedoms of great Americans like you and ungrateful MSM whores since 1775!)
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To: Brett66

Love your tagline, dude...


12 posted on 02/02/2006 8:37:16 PM PST by MrBallroom (US MARINES: Preserving freedoms of great Americans like you and ungrateful MSM whores since 1775!)
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To: MrBallroom

FReeper gals are so goodlooking!

Thanks for posting that.


13 posted on 02/02/2006 8:37:25 PM PST by Palladin ("Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."...John Wayne)
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To: Haemo

Typical comments of a first time troll poster..


14 posted on 02/02/2006 8:37:46 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Haemo

It's becoming easier and easier to spot a newbie. I wonder why. Hmmmmm.


15 posted on 02/02/2006 8:39:21 PM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (Undocumented border patrol agent.)
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To: COEXERJ145

OOOOPS!!! The article in the main body has the correct date of 2006. Thanks for pointing that out...

16 posted on 02/02/2006 8:39:23 PM PST by MrBallroom (US MARINES: Preserving freedoms of great Americans like you and ungrateful MSM whores since 1775!)
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To: Haemo

Interesting. Her analysis was entirely correct.


17 posted on 02/02/2006 8:39:30 PM PST by Poser (Willing to fight for oil)
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To: Palladin; The Right Stuff

She's a brilliant colleague, married and has 2 boys.

18 posted on 02/02/2006 8:40:17 PM PST by MrBallroom (US MARINES: Preserving freedoms of great Americans like you and ungrateful MSM whores since 1775!)
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To: MrBallroom

Ping the mods, they'll fix it for you.


19 posted on 02/02/2006 8:40:38 PM PST by COEXERJ145 (Despite Popular Opinion, Tom Tancredo Does Not Support Deporting Illegal Aliens.)
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To: MrBallroom

Really? I've always found CSI to have rather weak writing, but interesting Sherlock Holmes-style stories. The plot and the writing seem secondary.


20 posted on 02/02/2006 8:40:41 PM PST by Zeroisanumber
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