A new book about the founder of the dynasty challenges the widely-held assumption that he made his fortune as a bootlegger. The real money, it says, came from wheeling and dealing in Hollywood. There's no attempt at revisionism, however, when it comes to assessing the character of the "near-complete bastard".
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CliveDavis on 29th Jan 2009 (via spectator.co.uk)
You might enjoy: Rod Lurie in The Huffington Post: The Holocaust revisionism of Hollywood Iain Dale's Diary: Does Eddie George have smoking gun? Daniel Gross in Slate: This Isn't Your Grandfather's Recession Clay Risen in The Plank: Does Berlin know...
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CommentCentral on 13th Feb 2009 (via timesonline.typepad.com)
I see that Irish President Mary McAleese has been indluging her hobby of historical revisionism again, this time claiming that tens of thousands of Irishmen joined the British Army in an attempt to avoid poverty rather than out of a sense of partiotism. I'm with Lord Maginnis on this when he wrily observes.... "The whole idea that men joined the Army to keep their families off the bread line ...
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ATangledWeb on 5th Jan 2009 (via atangledweb.squarespace.com)
"In the bubbled, hypocritical mind of some in Hollywood, the only reason Gervais crossed a line is because he went after them. Had he been as relentless in ripping apart Sarah Palin, her young children, Jesus Christ, or George W. Bush, today the comedian would be celebrated as âedgyâ and âcourageousâ â because only in Hollywood is throwing red meat...
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Samizdata on 19th Jan 2011 (via samizdata.net)
That is what Hollywood is exporting to the world, apparently, along with "extramarital sex leading to the spread of sexually-transmitted disease", but I decided that had to be excised from the headline for reasons of space. And furthermore, "The lack of morals and values in Hollywood culture has been destroying the fabric of American culture, particularly the family...Hollywood has also been accus...
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TheCroydonian on 22nd Jan 2009 (via croydonian.blogspot.com)
Hollywood is completely obsessed with the Holocaust. Partly because of its own Jewishness, also the reason why, among other things, Hollywood so rarely depicts God. Partly because the Holocaust didn’t happen in America (unlike slavery, or the genocide of the Native Americans), or with direct American participation or collusion. And partly because, as with the saturation teaching of the Holocaust...
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DavidLindsay on 1st Mar 2009 (via davidaslindsay.blogspot.com)
The other day I wrote a post complaining about the informal shunning of Republicans in Hollywood. Several ATW readers thought my analysis was incorrect. Vehemently. I can't be right! There is no shunning because liberals are open-minded and tolerant. Right?? Hollywood blacklisting ended when the McCarthy Era was put to bed. Right? Unfortunately...
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ATangledWeb on 5th Oct 2008 (via atangledweb.squarespace.com)
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A couple of days ago, the Guardian gave the old story about Tobacco sponsorship in Hollywood its latest outing: It was the golden age of Hollywood, a time when movies defined who we were and what we did. But it...
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BloodAndTreasure on 28th Sep 2008 (via bloodandtreasure.typepad.com)