The Many Faces Of Hollywood

by JASmius



Second look at spiking The Interview?:

Over the weekend, Hollywood blowhard Michael Moore called American soldiers “murderers.” Now, on Monday, schlock comedy actor Seth Rogan jumped in to support Moore’s negative assessment of our troops by calling them “Nazis.”

As the new film American Sniper – a film about Navy SEAL Chris Kyle – becomes a major box office hit, Moore took to his Twitter account to say that Marine snipers were nothing but “murderers.” Apparently so-called actor Seth Rogan agrees that our soldiers are evil.

On Monday, Rogan posted a Tweet that says, “American Sniper kind of reminds me of the movie that’s showing in the third act of Inglorious Basterds.”

You may not recall, but the end of Inglorious Basterds took place in a movie theater that was showing a Nazi propaganda film featuring a Nazi sniper shooting down American troops.

The reason, of course, that American Sniper is becoming a major box office hit is because it is a realistic portrayal of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, not a typical Hollywood leftwing smear job, which is obviously what the Hutt and Aaron Rapoport wanted and expected to see.  And no such portrayal that is the slightest bit less than hostile to U.S. servicepeople can be tolerated.

I didn't write about this over the weekend because Michael Moore smearing the military on social media just didn't seem like news to me, and I didn't want to add anything to the buzz about it.  But now it's becoming a chorus, and will continue to do so in direct disproportion to how successful American Sniper becomes.

But that's typical for Hollywood.  And then there continues to emerge the atypical, this time in the person of one Billy Crystal:

Billy Crystal, who played one of the first openly gay characters on TV in the Seventies, told the Television Critics Association that gay scenes aren't "to his taste".

Speaking during a panel interview in Pasadena, the actor said: "Sometimes I think: 'Ah that's too much for me'.

"Sometimes, it’s just pushing it a little too far for my taste and I’m not going to reveal to you which ones they are. I hope people don't abuse it and shove it in our face to the point where it feels like an every-day kind of thing," Crystal added.

The actor played Jodie Dallas on Soap, one of the first unambiguously gay characters on US television, from 1977-1981.

In a word, wow.  Homosexuality is the cultural third rail in early twenty-first century Obamerikastan.  We're all supposed to be gay, now, the only difference being the extend of universal gayness.  And especially so in Hollywood.  For a - well, I don't know if I'd call him a comedy legend necessarily, but he has had both television and box office success - star of Billy Crystal's magnitude to publicly make a statement that will inevitably get him vilified as a "homophobe" speaks a great deal either about his character and courage and perhaps kinda-sorta whatever traditional values he still retains - or simply the fact that he's got his fortune and doesn't have to care what the rest of the Hollywoodies think of him - or his heedless naivete as the inevitable bleepstorm descends.

Kinda makes you wonder if he's going to take a Tweet on American Sniper as well, just to make amends.