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Category Archives: Hollywood
David Poland and the Reinvention of Entertainment Journalism
David Poland (b. 1964) is a transitional figure in American entertainment journalism. He occupies the unsettled ground between the declining authority of the twentieth-century trade press and the rise of decentralized digital commentary. Across more than three decades he moved … Continue reading
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Amy Wallace and the Migration of Elite Journalists
Amy Wallace (b. 1962) belongs to the generation of American long-form journalists who came up through the metropolitan newspaper system, moved into the prestige magazine world, and later turned to collaborative nonfiction. Her career traces a larger shift in American … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For People Who Cry During The Movie Legends Of The Fall
People who cry every time they watch Legends of the Fall believe their emotional response to the film, whose sweep across the Montana wilderness, whose Brad Pitt performance as the untameable Tristan Ludlow, whose James Horner score whose Celtic and … Continue reading
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I’m like the guy who reads Playboy for the articles
Even though I do not share the worldview of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Apple News Plus, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, I subscribe for the articles. I don’t pay for the comfort of … Continue reading
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I don’t care deeply about any 2025 movie. Am I missing something?
Gemini says: Movie fatigue is a common result of a landscape dominated by sequels and brand expansions. 2025 has seen plenty of those, with movies like Zootopia 2 and Avatar: Fire and Ash breaking box office records. If those feel … Continue reading
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The Summer Of ’42
Could a film like Summer of ’42 be made today? No. The movie depicts a fifteen year old boy who has a sexual encounter with a woman in her twenties whose husband just died in the war. While the movie … Continue reading
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A Perfect World (1993)
ChatGPT says: Because A Perfect World does something surprisingly rare. It uses a familiar road-movie setup — an escaped convict and a hostage — not to thrill but to explore what real connection feels like. It is a film about … Continue reading
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Why do I love the movie Legends of the Fall (1994)?
ChatGPT says: Because Legends of the Fall treats emotion as fate rather than choice. The movie assumes that some people feel too deeply to live safely. Tristan is not reckless because he is immature. He is reckless because he cannot … Continue reading
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Jews in Hollywood
Written with AI: Joel Stein wrote a column for the Los Angeles Times on December 19, 2008, titled Who runs Hollywood? C’mon. In the piece, Stein responds to an Anti-Defamation League poll showing that only 22% of Americans believe Jews … Continue reading
Decoding Taylor Sheridan
Gemini says: The rise of Taylor Sheridan is a textbook case of an actor-turned-creator using “coordination intelligence” to build a parallel power structure that bypasses the traditional Hollywood gatekeepers. In David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory, status is not just a personal … Continue reading
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