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Category Archives: Hollywood
Hitler & the Hits
In “Hitler and the Hits”, Frederic Raphael reviews Ben Urwand’s book The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact With Hitler. Raphael doesn’t accept the false analogy of a Jewish Hollywood appeasing the Nazis: The title of Urwand’s book is calculated to excite horrified … Continue reading
Hollywood Producer Arnon Milchan Admits Double Life as Israeli Spy
Yesterday, Milchan (whom I previously wrote about here) admitted to being a spy for Israel: JERUSALEM – Stories about Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan’s alleged double life have been circulating for years. Now, the Israeli-born businessman behind hits like “Pretty Woman,” … Continue reading
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
While in NYC yesterday, my girlfriend and I popped into Bonham’s for a preview of movie memorabilia that was auctioned off today. I mainly wanted to see the auction’s highlight: the Maltese Falcon, but it was at CNN studios that … Continue reading
Conflicted Loyalties – Pt. 3,187
In Haaretz is an article titled “Did Hollywood bigwigs help Israel buy arms in the 1970s and ’80s?” Arnon Milchan, the Israeli producer of such smash hits as “Fight Club,” “Pretty Woman,” and hundreds of other films, is opening up … Continue reading
Arek Bawrin
Why do the many reports (of how difficult this guy is to work with) not surprise me: Sources exclusively tell us that MSNBC chiefs are not exactly falling over themselves to get boisterous Baldwin back in the building. One insider … Continue reading
Andy Kaufman
Here’s a most interesting (and bizarre) allegation, from Kaufman’s own brother & a woman claiming to be Andy’s daughter, that Andy did in fact fake his own death. Update: New reports indicate it’s a hoax by Andy’s brother and the … Continue reading
Bordertown
Seth MacFarlane is a mystery to me. How could someone so unfunny and unoriginal become so huge and successful? Now, I’m a fan of good comedy. Over the years it’s been The Simpsons; Seinfeld; Arrested Development; The Office (BBC); 30 … Continue reading
Hollywood Pushing Obamacare
At NRO, Andrew Johnson reports: The California Endowment has awarded a $500,000 grant to the Norman Lear Center, a public-policy organization at the University of Southern California that focuses on entertainment, to make sure that television producers and their staffs fully understand the new health-care-reform law, … Continue reading
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Gwyneth
Hating her has become viral. Count me as a longtime hater. I can’t wait for the Vanity Fair piece. Born of wealthy Hollywood royalty parents (she had an “uncle Steven Spielberg”!), she still insists her talent and hard work is … Continue reading
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Stranger in a WASP Land
Steve Sailer channels his inner Kevin MacDonald in this insightful analysis of The Graduate (1967): Nichols likes to claim that he hadn’t realized what The Graduate was actually about until he saw it parodied in a juvenile humor magazine in … Continue reading