Supporting Each Other

For John, BLUF:  In this time of troubles for Israel (and Gaza) we should all be standing together, but we are not.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Actress Julianna Margulies Speaks Out About Black Antisemitism and Feels the Backlash

From Hot Air, by Reporter Karen Townsend, 1 December 2023, 1:31 pm.

Here is the lede plus three:

Actress Julianna Margulies is feeling the heat after making some comments on the antisemitism she sees from black Americans.  She dared to express her opinion about the lack of support by the Black and LGBTQ communities for Israel in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.

Now she must be punished.  I don’t make the rules.  Margulies is Jewish.  She was a guest on the Back Room podcast hosted by Andy Ostroy.  Margulies commented that “the entire black community” may have been “brainwashed to hate Jews.”  She pointed out that they would likely be the first people to be beheaded in a Muslim country.  She went on to say that their heads would be used like soccer balls.  Tough stuff, to be sure, but she didn’t say anything ground-breaking.

Her sweeping generalization that the entire black community is conditioned to hate Jews was what probably got her into trouble.  White people aren’t allowed to criticize black people on just about anything.  When making an argument, it is best to avoid generalizations because they are easily debunked.  Are all black people antisemitic?  Probably no more than all white people are antisemitic.  We’ve seen people of all colors participating in anti-Israel demonstrations.  Sadly, the massacres by Hamas in October and Israel’s right to defend herself have unleashed a wave of antisemitism that few realized was lurking just under the surface of civil society.

The antisemitism seen since October 7 has been an eye-opener.  Most offensive is the general ignorance displayed by young people, college students, and those who will one day lead America.  Decades of liberal power grabs on American higher education campuses has taken a toll.  To some extent, Margulies is right about the brainwashing of Americans against Jews.

Yes, I agree that Ms Margulies should not have made a sweeping generalization about blacks.  It is important to see all people as individuals, and not assume that as one group or another they all act in unison.  On the other hand, Ms Margulies is spot on to say that Jews marched with Blacks over the issue of civil rights and now many Blacks are turning their backs on Jews, as Antisemitism raises its ugly head.  And, for the LGBT Community to support Palestine and Hamas is just blind ignorance.  The sign bearing "Queers for Palestine", mentioned in the article, jumped out at me weeks ago.  The Islam of Hamas is not tolerent of the LGBT agenda.

In a desire to prove themselves morally superior to their Grandparents, the youth of today have abandoned morality and rational thought.  It is tragic.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Let Sleeping Princesses Lie

For John, BLUF:  Ms Zegler did recently accuse Prince Charming of being a stalker.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Prince Immediately Regrets Waking Rachel Zegler With A Kiss After She Starts Ranting About The Patriarchy

From The Babylo Bee, 17 August 2023.

Here is the lede plus one:

FAIRY FOREST — Prince Florian quickly regretted his decision to wake Rachel Zegler from her enchanted sleep as she immediately launched into a 3-hour-long tirade about the patriarchy.

"Yeah, this was a mistake," said Prince Florian as Ms. Zegler continued her diatribe. "I'm starting to see where the Queen was coming from."

The saying “act in haste, repent at leisure” could be applied here.  The Prince obviously didn't think through the consequences of his action, nor the era in which he is living.

The age of love and acting to benefit others seems to be passing before our eyes.  I say "Good Luck" to the newer generations.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

The Greats

For John, BLUF:  Those people out in Hollywood are messing with what we can watch, impacting what we think of ourselves.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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For the Love of Jimmy Stewart, Save Turner Classic Movies!

From Carla Seaquist at Medium, by Ms Carla Seaquist, 11 July 2023.

Here is the lede plus six:

Jimmy Stewart filibustering for cleaner politics.

Bette Davis operating in her reality-based mode.

James Cagney conjuring up, as it were, “sumpin’ out of nuttin.’”

These iconic American actors, symbolizing iconic American traits, are mainstays of a venue fashioned just for them: Turner Classic Movies.  Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, “uncut and commercial-free,” you could tune in to TCM and partake of stories and performances that thrill, elevate, comfort — in sum, entertain in the richest possible way.

That is, once upon a time it did.

The disturbing news that Turner Classic Movies has undergone a corporate “reorg” — it has been taken over by Warner Bros. Discovery, resulting in 70 of its 90-member staff laid off, including the programmers who curate TCM’s fare with peerless taste — has hit film lovers hard and has us asking, yet again:

Must everything fine in American life be commercialized, cheesed-up, ruined?

Carla, who I have met, and her Husband, a retired Navy Captain and Washington State Legislator, are Democrats, but they understand our History and our need to honor it and build on it.  Jimmy Stewart is a good example.  Not only was he a great actor.  He was a legitimate World War II hero, learning to fly as a civilian and then joining the Army Air Forces as a bomber pilot.

Fighting the good fight, navigating as adult, going from “nuttin’ to sumpin’”: All these traits — enabling America to navigate a darkening future — are continuously on view at TCM.

Regards  —  Cliff

We Miss You, Judy

For John, BLUF:  Talent isn't evenly distributed, and some with talent also suffer from their internal struggles.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Judy Garland is 100.

From Althouse, by Law Professor Ann Althouse, 10 June 2022.

The Post is short.  A video with Ms Garland's ten best songs.

Taste in music varies.  I loved the selection and some brought a tear to my eye.  On the other hand, my Wife, a professional musician and someone who helped stage a number of high school musicals (and starred in South Pacific in her own high school days), thinks Ms Garland is overrated.  Fortunately, I respect her opinions and she does not insist I adopt as my own all of her opinions.  But, I don't impose my tastes by playing Ms Gatland in her presence and she appears to count that as respect.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

You've Got To Have Heart

For John, BLUF:  Yes, this is old, but it is still timely, and worth it for the clip, at the link, of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Explaining America to the NYT

From Don Surber Blog, by Retired Reporter Don Surber, 14 April 2020.

Here is the lede plus four:

Neil Irwin is a senior economics correspondent for the New York Times.  He showcased his ignorance in his latest offering to the public, "Everything Is Awful.  So Why Is the Stock Market Booming?"

The column is the gloom and doom the left has churned out throughout my lifetime.  Ever since the Great Depression brought us FDR, they have rooted for another one.  Obama disappointed them.  But this time -- under the charismatic, super-intelligent, and definitely not senile Joe Biden -- the nation will finally capitulate and embrace communism, er, um, socialism.

Irwin wrote, "What on earth is the stock market doing?

"Death and despair are all around.  The number of people filing for unemployment benefits each of the last two weeks was about 10 times the previous record — and is probably being artificially held back by overloaded government systems.  Vast swaths of American business are shuttered indefinitely.  The economic quarter now underway will most likely feature Great Depression-caliber shrinkage in economic activity.

"Yet at Thursday’s close, the S&P 500 was up 25% from its recent low on March 23.  It is down only about 14% this year — and is up from its levels of just 11 months ago.  There are answers as to why.  But that doesn’t take away the extremity of the juxtaposition between an economy in free fall and a stock market that is, in the scheme of things, doing just fine."

Attitude is a big factor in overcoming difficulties.  Muddling through is a start, but as the article goes on to tell us, it is important to pick yourself up.

Gloom and doom just are not the American way.  The music of the 1930s included mostly uplifting and happy songs.  For "Swing Time," the ultimate Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire musical, Jerome Kern and lyricist Dorothy Fields gave us "Pick Yourself Up," which was deployed when Rogers taught Astaire to dance. She sang:

Nothing's impossible I have found,
For when my chin is on the ground,
I pick myself up,
Dust myself off,
Start all over again.

And of course he miraculously learned to dance like Fred Astaire.

I will never dance like Fred Astaire, but I can have that pick myself up attitude.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Al Jolson Leading the Way

For John, BLUF:  Mores change, sadly we are not always tolerant of those from the past, or today.  Maybe we should give a little forgiveness to Justin Trudeau and the Virginia Governor.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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THE JAZZ SINGER PREMIERED ON THIS DAY IN 1927

From Instapundit, by Prof Gail Heriot, 6 October 2019.

Here is the lede plus three:

Starring Al Jolson, who performs several scenes in blackface, the film is the story of a Jewish boy, Jakie Rabinowitz, who longs to be a jazz singer.  His father, on the other hand, wants him to follow the family tradition and become a synagogue cantor.  Jakie eventually runs away to follow his dream of show business stardom.

Alas, just as he is about to make it big, he finds out that his father is on his deathbed.  Young Jakie is thus needed to sing the Kol Nidre for Yom Kippur in his father’s stead. If he fails to show up for the premiere of his big show, his fledgling career will likely be ruined.  But who will sing at the Yom Kippur service?  (Yes, I know … it’s probably a bit too melodramatic for the 21st century, but whatever ….)

With Justin Trudeau and all, blackface has been a big news item lately.  Here is an aspect of the issue that I did not realize until recently (though it doesn’t surprise me):  Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer were both very popular with African Americans.  When the film played in Harlem, Harlem’s newspaper, the Amsterdam News, called it “one of the greatest pictures ever produced.”  About Jolson, it wrote:  “Every colored performer is proud of him.”

I also did not realize that Jolson had been such a champion of African American performers.

Read about it at the link.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

He Thought He Had the Photos?

For John, BLUF:  The sins of 2016 have been revised and are now being flipped against the President.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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FLASHBACK:  Schiff Caught Telling Russian Pranksters He'd Take Ukrainian Dirt on Trump

From Pajama Media, by Stephen Green, 30 September 2019.

Here is the lede plus one:

Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz just resurfaced a two-year-old audiotape of House Intel Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) telling two Russian shock-jocks that he would "welcome the chance" take their non-existent dirty photos of President Trump.

If you'll recall from February of 2018, one of the radio hosts posed as a Ukrainian official who had information damaging to Trump, and was willing to share it with Schiff.  Gaetz is smart to bring this up now, with Schiff working hard to impeach Trump for a phone call in which he didn't actually pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating Joe and Hunter Biden.  With impeachment fever hitting triple digits in Washington (less so in the rest of the country), it's important to remember three things:

• Zelensky said his phone call with Trump was friendly, involved no pressure, and that virtually all the major news organizations clipped 540 words out of the middle of their conversation to make it appear otherwise.
• Joe Biden bragged about pressuring Ukraine into firing an investigator looking into his son Hunter, by threatening to withhold a billion dollars worth of aid.
• Schiff himself is no stranger to making stuff up, then claiming it was just a prank when he got caught.

Representative Adam Schiff is all Hollywood, but without the honesty of Tinsel Town.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Trump vs The Elite

For John, BLUF:  I like to know people who think like me, but I also like to know people who think differently, without them having to hate me.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Trump name-calls — "Bad 'actress' Debra The Mess Messing" — and challenges people to think again about the exile of Roseannne.

From The Althouse Blog, by Professor Ann Althouse, 5 September 2019.

The Progressives have not yet figures out that Donald J Trump, when attacked, likes to fight back, and is very good at it.

Hat tip to Ann Althouse.

Regards  —  Cliff

Did 0s Hollywood Get Trump

For John, BLUF:  In my view, when President Trump leaves office he should pull a five star badge out of his pocket and throw in onto the driveway, and then ride off.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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How Did Shane End Up?

Here is the sub-headline:

The gunslinging outsider saved the vulnerable farmers, but they didn’t love him for it.

From National Review, by Professor Victory David Hanson, 27 November 2018.

Shane, the movie, starring Alan Ladd as Shane.

Is President Trump Shane?

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Give Jane a Break

For John, BLUF:  I don't want to live my life defined by who I dislike.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Jane Fonda Addresses ‘Hanoi Jane’ Photo: ‘I Will Go To My Grave Regretting That’

From Mediatite, by Reporter Joseph A. Wulfsohn, 20 September 2018.

If this event, back during the US efforts to defend South Viet-nam from aggression by the North, is beyond your memory, then move on and forget about it.

If, like me, you remember this, especially if you are a Veteran of the Viet-nam war, then this is more personal.  I am a veteran of said war, two tours.  On my first tour I had 100 "Counters" or missions over North Viet-nam.  I am a "River Rat", which is to say I have been north of the Red River.  So, I feel free to hold an opinion.

The thing is, unlike most of my fellow Veterans, I think it is time to embrace Jane Fonda, forgive her for her stance on the war, and her stupidities, and move on.

As a friend of mine, a Viet-nam Era Vet, said the other day, "But then, I don’t much want to stand in front of Christ and God and explain how I feel entitled to not forgive when they do so without qualification.  I might be uncomfortable in that confrontation…".

Indeed.  Besides, there are quite a few current characters much more deserving of my disdain.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Petty Government

For John, BLUF:  Their sidewalk, their city government.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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West Hollywood City Council passes resolution to remove Trump Walk of Fame star

From The Washington Times, by Reporter Victor Morton, 6 August 2018.

Here is the lede plus one:

The West Hollywood City Council called Monday night for President Trump’s star be removed from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, according to a tweet by the city’s mayor.

I guess it is their sidewalk.  The thing is, this is what President Trump is being accused of—petty responses to things he doesn't like  This is grand scale petty.

Didn't someone once say, “When they go low, we go high”?  Words [I wish we were mature enough] to live by.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Solo, the Movie

For John, BLUF:  I had to fill that square.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Yes, I went to see the movie, notwithstanding the bad reports in the media.♠  It is part of the Starwars saga, after all.  Yes, it filled in parts of the story, but it was not the best of the genre.  However, I found an article to help me understand.  First of all, I recognized myself in the article as a "fanboy".

I’d bet every fanboy went to see Solo this weekend anyway.

Actually, I went a week later.  And here is an interesting take on the movie and the comments on the movie.

Solo: Garbage Shoot

Here is the sub-headline:

The real reasons the latest Star Wars movie flopped.

From The Weekly Standard, by Mr John Podhoretz, 31 May 2018.

Here are, for me, the two key paragraphs:

Weirdly, every one of these movies centers on an orphaned young hero from nowhere, with nothing, who becomes a player in a major interplanetary game.  Rey from The Force Awakens is a scavenger; Jyn of Rogue One is part of a rebel gang.  The uniquely uninspired idea behind Solo is that he’s basically Dickens’s Artful Dodger, growing up in a slum stealing things for a local crime boss.  Does that strike you as Han Solo’s back story?  Doesn’t he seem more like the louche son of an upper-middle-class family who became a small-time smuggler because he found bourgeois life too dull?

There’s no bad boy to Alden Ehrenreich’s young Han; he’s a boy scout who is determined to save the love of his life.  All he does is sacrifice things and help people.  But the Han we know and love from the original Star Wars movies is someone who sticks his neck out for the first time when he shows up in the last act to help blow up the Death Star and transforms his life as a result.  Solo should be a movie about what made him so cynical yet charming in the first place.  It isn’t.  It isn’t really about much of anything, actually.

That's it.  I didn't really recognize the Harrison Ford Hans Solo in this actor.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  For all I knew, it was fake news being pushed by lovable old George Soros.

"The Fundamental Things Apply"

For John, BLUF:  Who hSN'T SEEN Casablanca?  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Playing it over and over again: how Casablanca was made

Here is the sub-headline:

The story behind the movie that defines the movies is one of immigrants, timing and a “son of a bitch” director.

From The New Statesman, (UK), by Mr Tom Shone, 14 April 2018.

Just another look at Casablanca, a timeless movie.

Play it Sam, Play "As Time Goes By"

Funnily, two lines go:

Yet we get a trifle weary With Mr. Einstein's theory.

But yet it still had an important role to play just a couple of years on.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

R Lee Ermey, (RIP)

For John, BLUF:  A great actor.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Hollywood Blacklisted R. Lee Ermey for Thought Crimes Against Barack Obama

From Breitbart, by Reporter John Note, 16 Apr 2018.

Here is the lede plus two:

Actor R. Lee Ermey, who died at 74 of pneumonia Sunday morning, was Exhibit A in the New Hollywood Blacklist.  After criticizing Barack Obama in 2010, Ermey’s thriving film career immediately dried up.  Even after apologizing, he was ostracized, fired by GEICO insurance and never did another commercial.  After disappearing completely for a few years, he managed to appear in a couple of C-grade reality shows in the last few years of his life.

Iconic and talented, Ermey was a walking-talking example of left-wing Hollywood’s intolerance toward those they condemn as thought criminals.

Ermey, who was known to his friends as “Gunny,” enlisted in the Marines in 1961 when he was only 17, and spent 14 months in Vietnam before earning a honorable discharge after 11 years of service.

I have never seen the movie Full Metal Jacket, but the character played by Mr Ermey is, even in the outtakes, iconic.

He voted for Senator Barack Obama for President and then two years later became disillusioned, and made the mistake of saying so publicly.  And thus he was blacklisted by Hollywood.

A Marine.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

New Movie on Chappaquiddick

For John, BLUF:  If ticket sales are a signal, don't go see it.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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NYT Op-Ed:  ‘Chappaquiddick’ Movie Is ‘Character Assassination’

From The Daily Caller and Ms Amber Athey, Media Reporter, 6 April 2018.

Here is the lede plus wo:

A New York Times contributor insisted in a Friday opinion piece that “Chappaquiddick” unfairly assassinates the character of former Senator Ted Kennedy.

The movie, which hits theaters on Friday, depicts the event surrounding the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned after Kennedy drove his car into a pond.  Kennedy failed to report the incident to police for ten hours.

Neil Gabler, who is writing a biography on Ted Kennedy, chose not to address the circumstances surrounding Kopechne’s death or Kennedy’s involvement in The New York Times.  Instead, Gabler flatly claimed that the movie is “outright character assassination.”

I will cut to the chase.  Unlikely to go to see the movie, which didn't need to be made.  Whose interest is served by dredging this up at this point?♠

Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy did some good things in his life.  He was for the F-35 Engine Second Source, which was being manufactured out of Lynn.  When the Boston Busing decision came down he said it was the right thing to do and he said it to the crowd assembled to protest the decision by Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.

On the other hand, he was notorious amongst women working on Capitol Hill as one of three Senators not to get into an elevator with, alone.♥  That should say something.  He colluded with the Russians during the end of President Jimmy Carter's first (and only) term.  Not a good thing.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Unless you subscribe to the view that you don't care what they say about you, as long as they spell the name correctly.
♥  Intel picked up from my Cousin, EE, who was at the time an Air Force Major working in the Pentagon.

On a Lighter Note

For John, BLUF:  Back when life was lighter.  And so was Hollywood.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Happy Birthday Doris Day

Ms Doris Day is 96 today.

Doris Day reminds me of my wife.  Both sing and both have acted (my wife in a High School version of South Pacific, as Navy Nurse Nellie Forbush).  And my wife sort of looks like Doris Day, although younger.  And we both enjoy her movies, even out to today.

Happy Birthday, Doris, and thanks for the memories.

Regards  —  Cliff

What A Mess

For John, BLUF:  The corruption of sexual misconduct in Hollywood and Hollywood East (DC) continues still.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Everybody knew ...

From Mr Rob Eno, in the daily mailout from Conservative Review, 28 November 2017.

Here is the lede plus one:

Cokie Roberts stunner … Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” veteran broadcaster Cokie Roberts said something that, if true, means the Washington press corps covered for Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., who has recently been accused of being a sexual predator.  Regarding Conyers, Roberts said, “Don’t get in the elevator with him, you know, and the whole— every female in the press corps knew that, right, don’t get in elevator with him.  Now people are saying it out loud.  And I think that does make a difference.”  You need to see it to believe it.

Wait, what?  Roberts is admitting that at the very least she “knew” it wasn’t safe to be in an elevator alone with Conyers.  Roberts covered Congress for ABC News primarily 20 years ago in the 1990s.  Conyers has been in Congress for 52 years.  Roberts’ job at ABC was to hold members of Congress accountable.  If we are to believe Roberts, she knew that Conyers was a danger to women and she did nothing about it.  Why?  Is it because he held views she liked?  This is a stunning admission of bias.

And, if you don't like the opinion of a local man gone to the big time, there is, from New Jersey, Emeritus Law Professor Ann Althouse, Madison, Wisconsin, asking the hard questions.  And the Comments at the post are great.

Her Blog Post is titled (based on what Reporter Cokie Roberts said):

"Don’t get in the elevator with him, you know, and the whole—every female in the press corps knew that, right, don’t get in elevator with him."

"Now people are saying it out loud. And I think that does make a difference."

So Professor Althouse asks:

The question, of course, is why didn't she or any of the other women in the press corps say it out loud?  And what are you still not saying out loud?  Are you just waiting until somebody else exposes one of the politicians you have been protecting or is there no one else you're just hanging back not talking about until the day comes when you'll be saying, once again, oh, yeah, we all knew that?

It isn't like this is new.  It is like Ms Linda Tripp said.  Nothing has changed, except some of this is now out in the open.♠

In the 1980s I had a couple of tours in the Pentagon.  On one of them I was there with two of my cousins, also in the Air Force.  One of them, EE, told me that her fellow female officers, who worked on Capitol Hill, told here there were three people one did not get into an elevator with alone—Senators Bob Packwood, Chris Dodd and Ted Kennedy.  Two questions:

1. Why didn't Ms Roberts mention those three senators?
2. Did you ever vote for Senator Ted Kennedy?

And remember Hollywood (and Broadway) with the phrase "casting couch", which was current when I was young.  In fact it goes back to the 1920s and 1930s.

So, is it much deeper, but all of us are covering for someone, or is this it?

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  I blame Donald Trump, God Bless Him.

At 8:50 This Morning

For John, BLUF:  Perhaps a new form of transgenderism.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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A short, but insightful comment from Law Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds:

IF I WERE SOMEBODY ELSE, THIS COULD BE A TEDIOUS 3000 WORD THINKPIECE IN THE NEW YORKER.  INSTEAD, YOU GET A BLOG POST.  But I was pondering the weird behavior of people like Harvey Weinstein and Charlie Rose.  This isn’t just about using the power of your position to get women.  Instead, there was this weird stuff about walking around naked or in a bathrobe and expecting women to be impressed.  So my thought:  Instead of exercising traditionally male power, they were trying to exercise the traditionally female power of being desirable and desired.  Maybe it’s because they were in industries where that power is especially prominent, but pathetically, they were acting like they hoped someone would find them . . . beautiful.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Gleichschaltung

For John, BLUF:  It is going to take a while to get over the election of 2016.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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I blame Mr Stephen Greene, writing at the InstaPundit, for introducing this term, Gleichschaltung, (pronounced ˈɡlīkˌSHalto͝oNG), into this discussion, but it is so apropos, as would be the term, "the new Blacklist" or the term "the new McCartyism, but it is more so, since it seeks to change a culture.

From Wikipedia:

In Nazi terminology, Gleichschaltung (German pronunciation: [ˈɡlaɪçʃaltʊŋ]), was the process of Nazification by which Nazi Germany successively established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of society, "from the economy and trade associations to the media, culture and education".

So, we have, from Hollywood in Toto:

SHOCK: HERE’S HOW TRUMP SUPPORTERS LOSE ACTING GIGS

By Mr Christian Toto, today, 23 May.

An unexpected confession from HBO's 'Silicon Valley' reveals how Hollywood discriminates against conservatives.

There are plenty of reasons people don’t get parts in Hollywood.

They’re not tall enough. They don’t fit the character in question’s physical profile.  They arrive with a lousy reputation.

The casting director had a bad day, perhaps?

Here’s a new one:  They want the current president to Make America Great Again.  Trump supporters in Hollywood might find work even harder to come by since Jan. 20, according to a revelation by comic actor Jimmy Yang.

And, there is a reference to an article by Reporter Stephen Galloway, on 20 May 2017, in The Hollywood Reporter:

A New McCarthyism in Hollywood?

Yes, I have seen this sort of thing.  You are a "non-perso" if you do not denounce and renounce Donald J Trump.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

High Noon Analysis

For John, BLUF:  Missing the forest for the trees.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Allegory for America

Subheadline:

Review:  Glenn Frankel, High Noon:  The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic

Source is The Washington Free Beacon and the Writer is Mr Joseph Bottum.

This review is about a book about the best Western ever.  And the best scene in High Noon?.  Toward the end Johnny, a 14 year old kid, brings around the buckboard and Mrs Kane gets up and the Marshall, as a last act, throws his badge in the dust at the feet of the Town Fathers.

Here is the Penultimate Paragraph of the review:

If Glenn Frankel’s book about High Noon starts out wrong and nonetheless clears the jump, it stumbles on its landing.  And the reason is mostly that Frankel can’t bring himself to reject communism or believe that the Soviets truly constituted a threat.  It’s not that he embraces the Soviet creed.  It’s rather that—a good American liberal of an old-fashioned 1970s-sort of breed—he plugs away with an unreflective anti-anti-communism.  For Frankel, the Venona intercepts seem never to have been revealed and the archives of the Soviet Union were never opened.  For him, only in conservative fantasy were the communists plotting against America—even the America for which High Noon provides an allegory.  At best, the author believes in moral equivalence: bad as the commies were, the anti-commies were just as bad. Probably worse.

The whole thing reminds me of America today, with the reflexive anti-Trump approach of many Progressives and fellow travelers.  Is President Trump Marshal Will Kane?  Time will tell.

It is sad.  So sad.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff