Comments on: Thought for the day http://whatwouldtotowatch.com/2009/02/26/thought-for-the-day/ Movie reviews from award-winning journalist Christian Toto Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:12:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: K http://whatwouldtotowatch.com/2009/02/26/thought-for-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-18589 K Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:33:38 +0000 http://whatwouldtotowatch.com/?p=1547#comment-18589 Dirty Harry's point was that Hollywood isn't doing well enough to uniformly insult and ignore the pro American audience. I beg to differ. Penn, Clooney, Pitt et al continue to pick up their enormous paychecks and Italian villas so where is the money coming from? The one shining beam I see in the present darkness is the Obama tax plan. In order to pay for the astronomical levels of spending being planned the government is going to have to start taking the lion's share of earned income from wonderful folks like the above stars. I will be interested in how this influences the Hollywood culture. Dirty Harry’s point was that Hollywood isn’t doing well enough to uniformly insult and ignore the pro American audience. I beg to differ. Penn, Clooney, Pitt et al continue to pick up their enormous paychecks and Italian villas so where is the money coming from?

The one shining beam I see in the present darkness is the Obama tax plan. In order to pay for the astronomical levels of spending being planned the government is going to have to start taking the lion’s share of earned income from wonderful folks like the above stars. I will be interested in how this influences the Hollywood culture.

]]> By: Dagnabbitt http://whatwouldtotowatch.com/2009/02/26/thought-for-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-18584 Dagnabbitt Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:52:05 +0000 http://whatwouldtotowatch.com/?p=1547#comment-18584 Not so sure it is as much ideology as it is ego - Penn now is a multiple-Academy Award winner, and his attachment gives the project prestige. Compare it to NFL franchises: our Washington Redskins team, as a business, is among the top 5 most successful in the world. However, the team itself barely breaks 0.500 each season and has not progressed beyond the 1st round of playoffs in many years - and THIS is what vexes its ownership, despite being so profitable an enterprise. Ego. and we know that it is rife in Hollywood ~ Dagnabbitt Not so sure it is as much ideology as it is ego – Penn now is a multiple-Academy Award winner, and his attachment gives the project prestige.

Compare it to NFL franchises: our Washington Redskins team, as a business, is among the top 5 most successful in the world. However, the team itself barely breaks 0.500 each season and has not progressed beyond the 1st round of playoffs in many years – and THIS is what vexes its ownership, despite being so profitable an enterprise.

Ego. and we know that it is rife in Hollywood

~ Dagnabbitt

]]> By: Ed Driscoll » Vanity Fear http://whatwouldtotowatch.com/2009/02/26/thought-for-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-18574 Ed Driscoll » Vanity Fear Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:07:49 +0000 http://whatwouldtotowatch.com/?p=1547#comment-18574 [...] In the comments to this post, Christian Toto of the Washington Times (and a frequent Pajamas-contributor himself) wrote: I stopped subscribing [...] [...] In the comments to this post, Christian Toto of the Washington Times (and a frequent Pajamas-contributor himself) wrote: I stopped subscribing [...]

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