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(More customer reviews)The Hollywood Culture War is an extraordinarily expansive revelation into the increasingly explosive Culture War between "Middle-America" and the aggressively radical "Left-Coast" juggernaut of the all-consuming entertainment industry. Hollywood producers, directors, celebrities, politicians, professors, evengelists and a literal cast of thousands are introduced as warriors, willing or not, in a forty-year battle to define the boudaries in the global quest for the garden of good and evil.
The author, Michael Boyer, is a twenty-year veteran of the movie industry as a Location Coordinator and Film Commissioner. He manages to crunch the data in the entertainment industry to unravel "a long dark thread" that runs through Hollywood and is embraced by an industry that is not only out of touch, it is openly hostile to the ticket-buyers who ultimately, as the author describes, "pays for the multi-million dollar Malibu mansion, four-car garage, swimming pool, drug habits and ultimately repeat rehab bills."
As George Clonney boasted at the Academy Awards, "I'm proud to be out of touch." Among the thousands of revealing quotes extracted from the industry insiders, Boyer manages to find a "parallel universe" of filmmakers that occasionally realize, reluctantly, there is life outside of Hollywood, as Roy Bruer of Sony Pictures testifies, "We have to be very cognizant that we live in L.A. and that you have to reach out to find things that entertain the entire country."
Boyer also explores the collusion between Hollywood and presidential politics that has resulted in "deals with the devil" as the author reveals the secret pacts between Tinseltown filmmamkers and the Democratic candidate Barack Obama. As the author explains, "There was much more to David Geffen's Hollywood fundraiser for Barack Obama than 400 celebrities who paid $2300 each to 'meet the candidate' in a 'private secured ballroom' at the Beverly Hilton. Boyer presents examples of the "Geffen Agenda" that began showing up in Obama's campaign speeches shortly after the February 19, 2007 event.
Certainly the most controversial chapter, as far as Hollywood is concerned, is Boyer's proposal and detailed recommendations for mandatory random drug-testing in the motion picture industry not too dissimilar from protocols already in line for Olympic, profeesional, collegiate and amateur sports. Knowing the byzantine layers of the entertainment industry, Boyer provides a convincing proposition that many will find long overdue in an industry now known more for its celebrity train-wrecks than its movies and collective entertainment output. Boyer testifies to the destruction of drug abuse on countless celebrities and witnessed the slow-motion deaths of a dozen entertainers.
In Chapter 22, "Riding With The Devil," the author exposes Hollywood's twenty-year strategy to literally oblterate Christians and Jews through a well-orchestrated three-pronged strategy. This is the most disturbing insight into Hollywood's persecution and religious bigotry to date from someone who worked alongside "the most atrocious, hate-filled producers, directors and actors in the industry."
This massive tome concludes with a series of victories from "fly-over country" against the onslaught of the Hollywood worldview including the story of one man who took on every movie studio in Hollywood and won a major victory in order to sell a unique invention of simple proprietary
electronics that "put a clamp" on Hollywood's vulgarity. It literally took an act of the President of the United States to save this ingeneous entrepeneur from Hollywood executives who, as the author explains, "would prefer to molest your children in the privacy of their office, but will opt to assault them over the airwaves and at the multiplex instead."
Other sacred cows exploded by by Boyer is Hollywood's New Age gods and members of their "congregation," the coming death of hip-hop, and the bursting of the "Oprah Bubble." The Hollywood Culture War is an intelligent, engaging, humorous and far more revealing Hollywood Babylon for the 21st Century.
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The Hollywood Culture War: What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You2008 marks the 40th anniversary of Hollywood's Culture War assault on American values through movies, television, DVDs, video games, the internet and music. It wasn't always this way. This book explains how the Culture War started and how Americans are fighting back for control of the cohesive and entertaining values that bind together a strong nation.
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