Category: Embrace Hollywood

‘Roseanne’ Is Back.


Democrats and Hollywood, hardest hit. And yeah, it was funny.
Update: “Massive” ratings —oddly enough.

Yes, there were a fair number of funny lines. But forget writing, acting, directing, and the rest, it was positively thrilling to see something fictional transpiring on the television screen that reflected the half of America that has been so consistently and deliberately hidden from view or reviled by Hollywood. You almost couldn’t believe your eyes. Was this actually happening?

Embrace Hollywood

Them vs Us.

[The Oscars] ratings disaster this year is so significant — down a whopping 20 percent compared to last year — it suggests a significant cultural shift has occurred that portends a great loss not just for the entertainment industry, but for the nation as a whole.
With this debacle, one would think its producers would snap to it and try to reverse the slide. Even the entertainment trade magazine Variety co-editor in chief vented on Twitter, “How low does the final ratings number have to be in order to prompt the Academy and ABC to freak out? Where is the bar set at which some serious changes will be made to the telecast format in order to reinvigorate the franchise?”
If they mean change the format that attacks half the population of the country to one that doesn’t, yes, that would be a good idea. But a change like that is not likely to come. For Hollywood, their rage at people who aren’t like them (conservatives, Trump supporters, Republicans, et al) has overcome any desire to return to their original mission — make movies that entertain and provide their audience with an escape from the strain of daily life.

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