Hollywood Leftists’ Awful Night: Time To Rethink The Oscars; Issues & Insights
Hollywood Communists Suffer From A Perennial Plague. It Was On Display At The Oscars — Geoffrey Ingersoll, Daily Caller
Duvall slighted, Bardot snubbed? Politics may be hard to ignore — Greg Richter, American Thinker
Why Movies Suck: It’s The Spirit Of The Age — Andrew Klavan, The New Jerusalem Substack
How the Oscars Made Everyone Hate Them — Sasha Stone
Who Killed Hollywood? Or Did it Kill Itself? – PJ Media
. . . "It's the production crews who suffer most from Tinseltown's downfall, and by and large, they aren't woke Hollywood progressives. They're workingmen and women who tend to be far more centrist or even conservative than the stars and studios they work for.
And Another Thing: I always liked Spade, but only recently learned that he's no Hollywood wokester, either. “I don’t want half the crowd tuning me out,” Spade told Variety in 2019, explaining why he didn't jump on the TDS bandwagon with the rest of the industry. "When people do things, I think it’s fair game to make a few jokes, and then you move on – not too personal, of course."
Some say the economics of streaming — particularly Netflix — are to blame, but as Carvey told Spade on the same podcast, "The amount of productions is dying, and so they have to do something so more production comes back, and that starts with negotiating with the union and also subsidizing the industry tax breaks to compete with Romania."
California and L.A. stopped competing for big-ticket productions, which is why studios decamped to Georgia, the U.K., and, yes, even Romania. But there's more to the story than just California's business-hostile environment driving filming out of state.
Whether filmed in Los Angeles or Timbuktu, Americans increasingly won't buy what Hollywood sells." . . .
Colbert's 'Lord of the Rings' Gig Reveals Ugly Hollywood Truth . . . "Colbert is one of the most divisive figures in entertainment. He’s spent a decade attacking President Donald Trump and every major right-leaning figure. Night after night. Week after week. Year after year.
"If you’re running a film studio, would you hire someone to pen an expensive project knowing his presence would keep people far away from the theater?
"Of course not. Yet someone OK’d Colbert’s writing gig." . . .
. . . "Raw, unplanned banter is missing on too many broadcast shows, they argued.“People rejected it because it didn’t feel authentic. It felt like they had an agenda. It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a f***ing class I didn’t want to take,” Vaugn added, noting the subsequent ratings droop across the late-night landscape wasn’t an accident. “I’m getting scolded.” . . .
