[Bender2]

Thanks for the link to the Peter Riegert story. Funny, the more things change the more they don't. Hollywood is not a place, in it a convent of warlocks with an occasional witch [That rhymes with bitch—] tossed in that plays the game of mine is bigger than yours even if it is not instead of making films and television that have merit or, for that matter, sense.

Gadzooks! All they are interest in is the bottom line of a blockbuster that proves their junk is bigger than that of anyone else in the convent. And if that means letting some super star or hot director make a piece of steamy manure film or TV series that is dear to their heart in order to get the star/director to do their projected blockbuster, they do it with a smile on their lips even if mean wasting money that could make decent entertainment.

Back in the days of the Studio System, the men who ran Hollywood were unmitigated sons-a-bitches without any shred of doubt, but they wanted to make films that entertained and made a profit.

Nowadays, it is all about megaprofit from blockbusters made from sure things like old films, old TV series or whatnot that once made people watch.

Creativity and originality and even talent don't mean squat in La-La Land. That's why I gave up butting my ever so sore head against the wall out there. Here on Free Republic, I can do as I wish and make my friends and followers laugh or see the point in my zaniness.

I won't make that zillion dollars being a movie star or THE Director or even get the girl in the end, but then again, I don't have to play the game anymore. I am my own man.

Now, that a story any Man's Magazine would kill for, right? Well, I'm buying... drink up, we got beat the dawn and its gaining on us!

[Bender2]

From http://www.deadline.com/interstitial/?ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deadline.com%2F2013%2F09%2Fhunger-games-jennifer-lawrence-gary-ross-reteam-steinbecks-east-of-eden%2F

"Exclusive: Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer have closed a deal with the John Steinbeck estate for a new version of his seminal novel East Of Eden that will be developed as a re-team for The Hunger Games director Gary Ross and Jennifer Lawrence. I’m told that the book is Ross’ favorite American novel and that the director plans to tell the generational story in two films. The novel previously was adapted into one picture, the 1955 Eliza Kazan-directed film that starred James Dean and Richard Davalos as sons who compete for the attention of their farmer father in Salinas, CA."

Gadzooks! This just proves what I said above is right--- East of Eden wasn't a big hit even with James Dean in it!

[tet68]

we got beat the dawn and its gaining on us!

Burning daylight, Bender, Burning Daylight!