[finnigan2]

Lots of great lines, but my favorite thought provoking sentence is, "What talk radio did to network news and the Internet is doing to monopoly newspapers, someone will eventually do to the big studios, and one day we may wind up with a Hollywood in which, as Clooney might say, nothing is getting shot."

- We may be too close to events to see them clearly, but I believe that Hollywood is even now in a decline, sort of like the Drive In Movie industry of the 1950's. The 20th century might become viewed as the golden age of Hollywood, before it became infested with hubris and the George Clooney like mind set.
Even now, the three major revenue sources for Hollywood are remakes of old movie classics, feature length cartoons and extravagant productions drawn from "Brit Lit" sources.
An enterprising writer could probably start today and already have enough material to make a good case for a book on the rise and fall of Hollywood.

[Borges]

Adaptations have been part of filmmaking from the beginning. And there has not been a Hollywood monopoly on American filmmaking for a long time. Anyone can get a movie made if they hustle. People finance films with their credit card these days.