Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Hollywood Hypocrites

"Hollywood's female and minority writers have seen little progress in job opportunities during the past seven years and remain underrepresented, a new Writers Guild of America West report shows." -Variety 10-12-05 [emphasis added]

My Hollywood Hypocrite List:

Invasion of privacy: Snooping around citizens' computers for "pirated" software, music & videos and "planting" spy code --snooping for money/greed = good; snooping for non-fiction bad guys who really want to kill you = bad

Filming outside the U.S. (outsourcing) = good; employing workers in India/China= bad

Using non-union workers outside & inside U.S. = good; Wal-Mart non-union shop = bad

Imperialism for movies/tv/music = good; "Imperialism" of democracy/freedom/liberty = bad

Making ridiculus amounts of money for actors/producers/studios = good; free-market = bad