by Hugh Manatee Wins » Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:03 am
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>I'd thought you to be of the opinion that Hollywood was a propaganda mill in the service of evil.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Just like the supposedly liberal press, Hollywood's crimes are cooked up at the management level, not at the actor level.<br><br>Journalists are more liberal than average (used to be anyway) but editors and publishers call the shots. Same with movies.<br><br>But actors and actresses get lots of mass attention and have the potential to go all 'humanist' and anti-war like Jane Fonda.<br><br>So the theme of Hollywood as a den of iniquity is routinely re-charged to keep the in-landers who despise 'artsy elitists' from ever considering actors anyone we should actually listen to as people. <br><br>Cultural creatives, actors, and artists must remain amusing and a good reason to spend money on their products but not to be emulated in any way as human beings.<br><br>Thus their corporate-CIA-mogul-manufactured money-producing selves are validated at the same time the real person is discredited to prevent 'problems' like Jane Fonda, Sean Penn, or the Dixie Chicks.<br><br>This is why Tom Cruise got shown as 'that kooky Scientologist' recently (which of course he is) even though he's used as a Top Gun/Mission Impossible recruiter. <br><br>Can't have too much power so a credibility escape mechanism is generated to prevent it.<br><br>This movie, 'Hollywoodland,' was originally going to be called 'Truth, Justice, and the American Way' after the opening motto of the 1950s Cold War Superman TV series. Atleast according to this 2004 article-<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://movies.about.com/od/brodyadrien/a/truthab092204.htm">movies.about.com/od/brody...092204.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>"Superman" TV star George Reeves' story comes to life in "Truth, Justice and the American Way," written by Paul Bernbaum. According to Variety, the film will deal with the investigation into Reeves' mysterious death and Brody will portray the lead detective on the case. Filming is expected to star in early 2005.<br><br>SOURCE: Variety<br><br>* renamed "Hollywoodland"<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>There must be a reason that the changed title takes the focus off of the old Superman and puts it squarely on 'Hollywoodland' which is an implied derogative like 'La-La Land' and is meant to be said with a distancing bemused smirk.<br><br>And the discrediting of woman is a constant goal of the National inSecurity State which always needs recruits.<br><br>Entertainment entertains by portraying values, identities, and behaviors in either a positive or negative light. That's how the undetected low-level radiation of social engineering works to create the malignancies of militarism, consumerism, and racism needed to conquer poor people in other countries.<br><br>War requires pumping up male status and preventing female status from suppressing the warrior by discrediting the female in the eyes of the male, just like the way actors and actresses are portrayed as good for one thing only, satisfying a base appetite.<br><br>That's background so now on to this movie.<br><br>Reeves murdered over a dame, hunh? Typical. Those broads just mess men up, right? You try to save the world from baddies and some woman like mom or wife or wicked girfriend hangs you up, dang!<br><br>Think it is a coincidence that one of the lead actresses has the last name of 'Lane'? And such a naughty character, too, messing up America's beloved hero Superman, I mean, Reeves.<br><br>Can you smell the heroes and anti-heroes (literally) in this interview below?<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://movies.about.com/od/mustlovedogs/a/dogsdl072105_2.htm">movies.about.com/od/mustl...2105_2.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Diane Lane on Her Character in “Truth, Justice, and the American Way:” “Her name is Toni Mannix and that is such a great name. I just can’t believe it wasn’t fictitious. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>It was a real woman named Toni Mannix and she was the paramour of George [Reeves]. She was the wife of the general manager of MGM, but in the ‘50s they found a way to make arrangements. George and she were a couple for nearly a decade. Quite a while, eight years.”</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>On Ben Affleck as George Reeves: “He’s great. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>It was interesting because it was right in that moment prior to he and Jennifer [Garner] getting married. He’s just so charming and so in love and so happy.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> I was just really happy for him because it’s a great role.<br><br>He had a really good time. I know he had a really good time delving into this character. The truth is stranger than fiction so we’re making this quasi-nonfiction movie. We’re telling the various possible scenarios of what occurred there. This guy had three autopsies performed on him so that’s why it behooves a movie to be made about his story.”<br><br>Does “Truth, Justice, and the American Way” Solve the Mystery of Reeves’ Death?: “I think it’s left up to the audience to form [an opinion], which I think is much more interesting. Even us as actors were going, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>‘Do you really think she arranged for him to be killed? I mean, come on.’</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> So and so saying this and various people, some saying he did kill himself but then why would he arrange his life in such a way right before doing it? It doesn’t seem like an off the cuff decision.”<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Killer dames, hunh? Best just join up and be protected by your fellow soldiers who'll watch your back.<br><br>I mean, we guys hafta stick together, right?<br><br>Hey, wait a minute. If she (Tony Mannix) was the wife of the general manager of MGM, why isn't he the prime suspect? <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 8/30/06 1:54 am<br></i>