Unabashedly American Production Company Fights Hollywood Culture War
August 4, 2010 at 12:15 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: bill whittle, Declaration Entertainment, family values, Film Production, Hollywood, Hollywood Conservatives, Michael Medved, NewsRealBlog, Patriotism, pjtv, The Arroyo, The Concession Stand, The Dove Foundation
by Walter Scott Hudson, contributed to NewsReal Blog
Conventional wisdom would suggest that movie studios, like any business entity, would invest in projects most likely to turn large profits. Such wisdom assumes the chief motive of show business is business. However, there is reason to believe profit is only one factor in a more complex motive to produce films.
A 2005 study commissioned by the family-friendly Dove Foundation found that G-rated fare brought in far more revenue than films with mature themes and graphic content. We’re not talking a negligible difference either. No, we’re talking staggering. Continue Reading Unabashedly American Production Company Fights Hollywood Culture War…
Gay Protest Group Flaunts Over-representation in Television Programming
July 25, 2010 at 5:30 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Affirmative Action, Cable television, CBS, Discrimination, Gay Rights, GLADD, Hollywood, homosexual, Homosexuality, homosexuals, MTV, NewsRealBlog, quotas, racial quotas, Racism, television, The Concession Stand
by Walter Scott Hudson, contributed to NewsReal Blog
Among the many bizarre propagations of the Left is the notion of minority quotas. These mandates are predicated upon the premise that governments, workplaces, and media outlets ought to be composed of bodies which perfectly mimic the demographics of their serviced populations. Aside from a lack of any discernible benefit, such quotas often graduate from absurd to dangerous.
Recall the discrimination case brought by white firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut last year. Their city’s Civil Service Board dismissed results from a promotion eligibility exam because, in their view, too few black and Hispanic firefighters earned passing scores. Apparently, merit was not adequate criteria for the available lieutenant and captain positions.
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Will Hate-Filled Rant Finally Be The End Of Mel Gibson?
July 13, 2010 at 6:21 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | 1 CommentTags: Anti-Semitism, blasphemy, Christianity, domestic violence, drunk driving, Hollywood, Mel Gibson, NewsRealBlog, Racism, The Concession Stand, The Passion of the Christ
The Hollywood Reporter predicts the long-term resilience of Mel Gibson’s career in the wake of an obscenity-laced diatribe which has the actor mired in public outrage. Other stars have survived such lows, and lived to fight another day.
Tiger Woods is back on the tour. Charlie Sheen got a raise. Eliot Spitzer is getting a show on CNN. The list goes on, and what’s more, the duration from disgrace to saving face seems to be shrinking.
In a recorded phone call Gibson railed against ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, the mother of his eight-month-old child, for dressing provocatively in public. The audio, available here, is too vulgar and vitriolic to conscientiously transcribe. Suffice it to say Gibson suggests Grigorieva’s presentation invites rape from black men.
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Comcast Merger With NBC-Universal Sets Stage For Latest Jesse Jackson Shakedown
July 12, 2010 at 11:55 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Antitrust, business, Comcast, Hollywood, Jesse Jackson, Merger, Monopoly, NBC, NewsRealBlog, The Concession Stand, Universal
Let’s say a government inspector comes into your place of business and finds a number of violations which may or may not be legitimate. What would you think if he offered to ignore the violations in exchange for a percentage of your profits?
That would be extortion, right? Whether you had actually done anything wrong would suddenly be moot. The question would become whether you were going to play ball in a corrupt system.
As Comcast and NBC/Universal seek policy makers’ blessing of their proposed merger, they appear to face a similar dilemma. Testimony at a recent hearing in Chicago centered around the merger’s potential impact, not on competition, but racial diversity.
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Rosie O’Donnell: Anti-Semite or Psychotic?
June 10, 2010 at 5:40 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Anti-Semitism, Helen Thomas, Israel-Palestine, NewsRealBlog, Rosie O'Donnell, The Concession Stand
by Walter Scott Hudson, cross-posted from NewsRealBlog
Rosie Hearts Helen Thomas
Helen Thomas, now former columnist for Hearst newspapers, has a track record of “utter detachment from reality.” In a 2006 column, Thomas characterized her colleagues in the White House press corp as “lap dogs” for the Bush administration leading up to the Iraq war. With axiomatic confidence she wrote,
“They lapped up everything the Pentagon and White House could dish out — no questions asked.”
This raised the eyebrow of National Review Online author Stephen Spruiell, who called Thomas to task. Citing a March 2003 transcript of a White House press conference, Spruiell proved journalists had piled on the administration. He concluded that Thomas’s assertion was “nonsense.”
There is a word for the inability to discern reality from delusion. It is psychosis. It goes a long way toward accounting for Thomas’s expressed political beliefs.
The same could be said of Rosie O’Donnell. In the wake of calling for the government seizure of British Petroleum by executive order, O’Donnell demonstrated willful ignorance of fact, while excusing Thomas’s anti-Semitism.
Prostitute Sues Over Film Based On Life
June 8, 2010 at 12:18 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: alex daily, brittnay snow, finding amanda, Hollywood, matthew broderick, NewsRealBlog, peter tolan
by Walter Scott Hudson, cross-posted from NewsRealBlog
Cinematical reports a woman whose real-life story was translated to the big screen in 2008’s Finding Amanda is suing her uncle, who wrote and directed the film, “for the mental and emotional distress she’s suffered by being featured as a character.” Alex Daily was the basis for a character whose uncle travels to Las Vegas to stage an intervention to end her prostitution. Apparently, the portrayal hit a little too close to home.
Daily alleges that [Peter] Tolan — [the uncle] — did little to hide the fact that it was based on her life. Court documents claim that “much of the dialogue, facts, and events really happened,” and the character of Amanda “looked, dressed, and behaved like Daily.” They also assert that the producers did little to hide the fact that the story was based on real events. Daily was never consulted on any of this and feels her privacy has been violated.
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