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Category Archives: Hollywood
Leslie Jones Is Beautiful And Brave
And her new Ghostbusters 2 movie is very funny. Criticizing the new Ghostbusters movie is not who we are as Americans. No movie starring a woman of color should be criticized because racism and Holocaust. First they came for Leslie … Continue reading
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LAT: How misogyny impacted ‘Ghostbusters’ opening weekend — and its future
Maybe it is just a bad movie? Rebecca Keegan writes: “It’s not clear the digital vitriol made a measurable impact on the box office…” Not much of a payoff for the headline. How come I rarely hear about the evils … Continue reading
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Why the Brits do political satire so well — and Americans can barely do it at all
Michael Hiltzik writes: To serve this end, American producers become obsessed with making their characters lovable. The idea is to give the audiences characters they’re comfortable welcoming into their homes week after week, year after year. So the rough edges … Continue reading
LAT: Idris Elba, Emma Watson, Ice Cube among 683 invited to join the movie academy — the largest, most diverse class ever
What about the goyim? Won’t anyone think about the goyim? What percentage of the Academy are goyim? Los Angeles Times: “In 2012, The Times reported that Oscar voters were 94% white and 77% male, and by this year those numbers … Continue reading
Gay Jesus & Jewish Hollywood
Comments at Steve Sailer: * I mean, EVERY year, right around Easter time, you can count on a major news magazine or newspaper doing a cover story on “the REAL Jesus.” That story will explain that Jesus was actually an … Continue reading
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Exploring Jewish Identity in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut
By Bryn V. Young-Roberts: Although Geoffrey Cocks explored the theme of Holocaust running through the entire oeuvre of Kubrick in The Wolf at the Door (2004), and devoted a section to Eyes Wide Shut, he only touched upon the theme … Continue reading
Some Hollywood Jews Tried To Molest Shirley Temple
When Catholic priests molest kids, it is always pointed out that they are Catholic priests. When Hollywood Jews and rabbis molest, their identities should be pointed out too. Shirley Temple writes in her book Child Star: An Autobiography of multiple … Continue reading
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Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood says Hollywood is gripped by a powerful pedophile ring and Tinseltown is covering up a ‘seedy’ underbelly full of predatory ‘vipers’
Daily Mail: Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood claims that young actors in Hollywood are being sexually abused by predatory high-powered ‘vipers’ working in the industry.. The Hobbit actor, 35, told The Sunday Times that the child abuse is … Continue reading
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TDB: Meet the New Han Solo: Alden Ehrenreich, Discovered by Steven Spielberg at a Bat Mitzvah
The Daily Beast: Back when Ehrenreich was just 14, he made a home movie for his friend’s bat mitzvah, which played during the ceremony. Steven Spielberg just so happened to be in the crowd, as his daughter Sasha was friends … Continue reading
Empire of the Sun
Steve Sailer writes: I thought Spielberg’s “Empire of the Sun” was the greatest movie of the 1980s. Spielberg auditioned hundreds looking for the best boy actor in Britain, and as of 2016 it seems pretty reasonable to think he found … Continue reading
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