Tag: "Hollywood"
If the “Heat” Isn’t On, It Should Be.
I have had Heat among my favorite movies ever since I saw it for the first time in the mid 1990s. It is one of the best-written, best-acted movies I’ve ever seen, with at least two action scenes that will take your breath away (almost literally!), and a cast that is as strong from top [...]
Tom Hanks’ Unnecessary Slander
Tom Hanks put himself squarely in the bullseye of many a blogger this week with this interview in Time magazine. For most of the interview he was pretty much what I’ve known him to be, a humble and intelligent man who is trying to preserve a part of our history eroded by age. His work [...]
“For the money, for the glory, and for the fun… mostly for the money.”
I read a couple excellent pieces over the weekend at the Big Hollywood site about the movie “Smokey and the Bandit” and the two men who made the movie happen: Hal Needham and Burt Reynolds. I admit, I didn’t expect to be particularly interested in the stories, but Leo Grim did a heck of a job [...]
Big Hollywood Starts with a Great Addition!
If you had to find someone who matched the destription of “new media mogul”, Andrew Breitbart would be near the top of every list. Not only did he co-found the Huffington Post (and wisely left it to the ever-expanding ego of Arianna Huffington) and contribute to the Druge Report, but he also runs Breitbart.com, which [...]
Either They’re Ignorant or They Think You Are
There’s a reason you should never look to Hollywood for a history lesson. With a few exceptions, actors and directors know as much about history as a Golden Retriever knows about differential calculus. Benicio Del Toro and Steven Soderbergh are not the exceptions. Hollywood hotshot Benicio Del Toro is not a stand-up comic, but he [...]
What’s Up With Hollywood’s Che Love?
I do not, for the life of me, understand why otherwise intelligent and decent human beings hold Che Guevara in such high esteem. Guevara was a wicked man with hands so stained with blood that all the bleach in the world could not get them clean. Yet the left, especially the Hollywood left, loves him [...]
That’s What You Said