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Netflix’s ‘Hollywood’ Could Have Been Great If It Wasn’t So Focused On Being Woke
The Federalist ^ | May 15, 2020 | Paulina Enck

Posted on 05/15/2020 7:42:11 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Rummyfan

do they include red baiting Communist “witchhunters”?

Hollywood is proud of its Communist past now and so are streaming services


21 posted on 05/15/2020 8:20:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Old Sarge

NOW Was founded on that
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3200158/posts
Marxist Feminism’s Ruined Lives
Frontpagemag.com ^ | 9-2-2014 | Mallory Millett

It was 1969. Kate invited me to join her for a gathering at the home of her friend, Lila Karp. They called the assemblage a “consciousness-raising-group,” a typical communist exercise, something practiced in Maoist China. We gathered at a large table as the chairperson opened the meeting with a back-and-forth recitation, like a Litany, a type of prayer done in Catholic Church. But now it was Marxism, the Church of the Left, mimicking religious practice:

“Why are we here today?” she asked.
“To make revolution,” they answered.
“What kind of revolution?” she replied.
“The Cultural Revolution,” they chanted.
“And how do we make Cultural Revolution?” she demanded.
“By destroying the American family!” they answered.
“How do we destroy the family?” she came back.
“By destroying the American Patriarch,” they cried exuberantly.
“And how do we destroy the American Patriarch?” she replied.
“By taking away his power!”
“How do we do that?”
“By destroying monogamy!” they shouted.
“How can we destroy monogamy?”
Their answer left me dumbstruck, breathless, disbelieving my ears. Was I on planet earth? Who were these people?

“By promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution and homosexuality!” they resounded.

They proceeded with a long discussion on how to advance these goals by establishing The National Organization of Women. It was clear they desired nothing less than the utter deconstruction of Western society. The upshot was that the only way to do this was “to invade every American institution. Every one must be permeated with ‘The Revolution’”: The media, the educational system, universities, high schools, K-12, school boards, etc.; then, the judiciary, the legislatures, the executive branches and even the library system.

It fell on my ears as a ludicrous scheme, as if they were a band of highly imaginative children planning a Brinks robbery; a lark trumped up on a snowy night amongst a group of spoiled brats over booze and hashish.


22 posted on 05/15/2020 8:23:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: uranium penguin

Marvel/Disney is in freefall over their “creative content” pushing Wokeness.

Star Wars/Disney is crashing and burning over the blatant attempts to reboot/retcon the franchise.

BBC is reeling over the consumer backlash because of the re-imaging of Doctor Who into Doctor Woke.

Amazon has fired the entire writers room involved with the multi-billion-dollar Lord of the Rings-based series; rampant rumors of a “woke re-write” abound.

The Left reached critical mass in 2009, as they realized they could say and do anything without being called on it. But they failed to realize that market forces would cause a correction - in other words, ‘Get Woke, Go Broke’.


23 posted on 05/15/2020 8:25:31 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Quando omni flunkus moritati)
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To: jerod

That always cracks me up. Violence, language, sex, nudity and ...smoking.


24 posted on 05/15/2020 8:30:07 AM PDT by NotSoFreeStater (If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice)
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To: Kaslin

Unfortunately all of the “Original Netflix Production” shows and movies are infected with this. Some more in your ace than others. And most of it is garbage in any event.


25 posted on 05/15/2020 9:10:32 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Kaslin

I’ve been watching the Last Kingdom on Netflix. So far they haven’t filled Anglo Saxon England full of black and asian people for the sake of diversity or gay romances.


26 posted on 05/15/2020 9:17:54 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Kaslin

Who watches Netflix? That amounts to putting money in Odungo’s pocket, as well as subjecting oneself to visual garbage.


27 posted on 05/15/2020 9:23:04 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: irishjuggler
Out of sheer covid19 boredom, made the mistake of the watching the first episode of this snoozefest. Aside from being shameless LGBT propaganda, it’s a total bore. Don’t bother.

Exactly, how far I got, too. About 40 minutes in, I gave up on this piece of trash.

28 posted on 05/15/2020 9:43:41 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: Kaslin; big'ol_freeper; Impy; SevenofNine; Cletus.D.Yokel; Rummyfan; Liberty Valance; Perdogg; ...
While there is more than a grain of truth in Netflix's "Hollywood" series, there is a ton of liberal gay fantasy all over the place. I watched the entire series and while was entertained somewhat, I found them skirting the pornographic line about as close as you can get without full frontal nudity and actual sex on camera.

In fact, in the 1948ish time frame of the series, there was sexual perversion out and about Hollywood that would probable equal what is shown in the plot yet it was not as public as "Hollywood" offers up. Folks in the industry knew what was going on but they did not do anything to make it public. Matter of fact they spent considerable time, money and effort to keep it out of the public eye. The out and out sex going on was common knowledge but not public knowledge outside the tight knit film community.

Even in my limited time on the Looney Left Coast, most of the sexual proclivities of the stars, directors, producers and studio heads was known even down to the small fry extras. I was offered parts if I would come across, so to speak, yet I was straight and had no interest in performing in gay sex for any payment big or small.

And I was also once offer the same thing by a female casting agent, but passed on it. Now, I will go to my grave wondering if she had been much better looking and better built, would I have given in? Guess we will never know--

So, I would recommend watching the series if you have a strong enough stomach to get past the hard core gay dialogue for if nothing else to see Jim Parsons forever leave Sheldon Cooper in the dust. He give us the most contemptible, disgusting character in his portrayal of real life agent Henry Willson who made Rock Hudson both figurative and literally. I will now always watch Sheldon in "The Big Bang Theory" reruns with one eye cocked for him breaking out in full blown Henry Willson--

29 posted on 05/15/2020 10:55:01 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Kaslin

Netflix is another liberal rag that tires to normalize the abnormal through propaganda.


30 posted on 05/15/2020 11:37:35 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: Kaslin

Watched the whole thing. Love the period and style, and they did a great job on that.

But the story portrays EVERYONE as homo or bi or a homo/bi prostitute. Rock Hudson attending the Oscars (and kissing) with his boyfriend is laughably absurd.

Then there’s the acting head of a studio condemning Disney’s Song of the South as racist. Just plain dumb, and there’s no shortage of this type of eye-rolling opportunity.


31 posted on 05/15/2020 11:52:53 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: JayAr36

Rob Reiner total POS.


32 posted on 05/15/2020 1:12:08 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: Bender2
And I was also once offer the same thing by a female casting agent, but passed on it. Now, I will go to my grave wondering if she had been much better looking and better built, would I have given in? Guess we will never know--

Wow! Was she a beast?

Dude, you need to write a memoir!

33 posted on 05/15/2020 10:09:18 PM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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Re: Wow! Was she a beast?

If you consider 40 pounds overweight in a dress two sizes too small, teeth yellow from chain smoking and she appeared to apply her makeup with a shovel, yeah--

And she must have know where some bodies were buried because she was still a casting agent with the same studio when I happened to see where she had died from lung cancer back in the early 2000s.

I have written off and on a memoir but the truth be told, I don't see a publisher springing for the story my life. I decided in the mid-90s to use my memories for a "Hollywood" novel and got about 300 pages into it before my health cratered. I haven't looked at it since 1995 and even finding it in those boxes of my files in the bedroom closet is more than I could accomplish today.

Maybe my cousin Henry P will do something with it and/or all my screenplays plus other writings of mine as he gets them in the will--

34 posted on 05/16/2020 7:21:52 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Impy
Gadzooks-- We need some football! I found myself watching s Madden 2020 simulation of my Boy vs Giants on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-ZW-CIV4a8&t=2088s

The Cowboys won 14 - 7 but the strange thing was they seem to have the newly drafted players on the roster but still had Jason G as the Dallas coach?????

35 posted on 05/16/2020 7:50:24 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Kaslin

My girlfriend started watching this because she’s a fan of his American horror story. I caught some of it. The performances are excellent we the art direction is incredible. But it’s way way too gay


36 posted on 05/16/2020 8:13:00 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus)
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To: Bender2

Bendy? Please let Henry P know that while you will always be in our hearts, we would love to have something tangible to hold in our hands and to read and to remember you by.

I bet a whole bunch of people who’ve never met you, even on line, would also love to hear that story.


37 posted on 05/16/2020 8:32:58 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: Bender2

I heard some jerk suggest we do the whole season on Madden, with the coaches playing it I guess.


38 posted on 05/16/2020 10:59:36 AM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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