February 25, 2007
Priorities of the Hollywood elite
In an article examining the relationship between Hollywood's dream factories, reality, and the ability to influence veiwers -- as well as 24, the military and torture -- Jonah Goldberg makes an interesting observation about what concerns people in the Biz.
Marc Cherry, the creator of ABC’s Desperate Housewives, told an interesting story to a gathering of TV critics recently. Cherry had screened a scene for a network censor in which the character played by Eva Longoria beds her 17-year-old gardener. Afterward, she enjoys a post-coital cigarette. Cherry said the censor asked, “Does she have to smoke?” To which Cherry replied: “So you’re good with the statutory rape thing?”
And the answer is “yes.” Hollywood is good with the statutory-rape thing. But it’s not good with the smoking thing. And yet if I were to criticize Hollywood for the statutory-rape thing, the Hollywood crowd would whine about how I’m a prude and, ultimately, a censorious enemy of free expression. If I were to complain about the cigarette? They’d say, “Good for you.”
It's a really odd place, with some seriously misplaced priorities, assuming you haven't sipped the Kool-Aid from the moonbat punchbowl.
Clint Eastwood, nominated for an Academy Award for half of his Iwo Jima double-header, notably eliminated smoking from his WWII epics, because, what with the severed heads, arterial spray and steaming piles of intestines on screen, you wouldn't want to shock impressionable youngsters by letting them see GIs smoking.
Ain't Hollywood grand?
Posted by Mike Lief at February 25, 2007 12:29 PM
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