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The shame of it all is we are expected to foot the bill for whatever comes into
the theatres. An interesting study of Hollyweird and its gaggle of silly geese
can be seen on, paradoxically enough, the E! channel, most notably either via
its Scandals or its True Hollywood Story series. There's an article somewhere
dealing with whether or not the big 'stars' are worth the $$$ paid to them for
their protrayal of life as we (are told we should) know it. My disenchantment
with Hollyweird came about after learning that Jim Carrey makes about $20M a
flick, for being a 'Pet Detective', no less. This is not to forget Bruce
Willis and Mel Gibson making mega$$$ for their contributions to the violence
and mayhem on the (tarnished) silver screen. The latest from Gibson in the
video stores is *Payback* which is well done (everyone gets paid back) but his
one-man (after the fashion of "Rambo") war against some gangsters has something
lacking ... and his character only wants $70K out of it, $70K we are supposed
to believe he deserves but an amount he stole to begin with, nevertheless. And
I thought *Taxi Driver* was violent a quarter century ago (couldn't watch some
scenes).
And, so: we pay the theatres who pay the distributors who pay the whoevers on
up the line with $$$ feeding the imaginations of the stars and directors and
producers and whoevers in search of the next obscenity.
I think the most egregious example of this scam was *Saving Private Ryan*
(which was essentially a remake of the *Longest Day* with an old *Combat* (TV
show) script as the pretext for the story). And for this Spielberg and Hanks
got some award from the War Department. Shows how easily Gen X is duped and
entertained by remakes of reruns. And the ending, when Ryan asks if he was
worth it; to the studios, all those grave markers must have looked like the $$$
amount placards in an old cash register. Why didn't Ryan ask the surviving
family members of all who (supposedly) lost their lives tracking him down? And
just what did Ryan do in the intervening years in justification for the orgy of
blood and guts that Spielberg and Hanks spilled all over the place?
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> American Depravity by William Norman Grigg
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> -- Released last year to rave reviews, the movie 'American Beauty' is
> nothing more than propaganda for the latest American depravity. --
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