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Robert Avrech, who blogs at Seraphic Secret, understands Hollywood.  Although he is an openly observant Jew, a Zionist, and a conservative, he nevertheless lives, writes and works in that town.  For that reason, when he writes about the increasingly famous intersection at Hollywood and Politics, it’s definitely worth reading what he has to say.  Here [...]

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I wrote generally about the gap between critics and the rest of us.  Patrick has taken one critic, deconstructed his criticism, and explained precisely why that gap looms so large.

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Rotten Tomatoes is an aggregator that assembles movie reviews and then, depending on the number of positive or negative reviews, assigns any given film a “freshness rating. ” The higher the rating, the more favorable the majority of reviews are.
For example, as of today (11/25 at 18:06 PST), Enchanted gets a 93% freshness rating [...]

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If you have time to read only one post today, read this one that Laer wrote about Hollywood’s abandonment of America — and America’s abandonment of Hollywood.

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When former President Calvin Coolidge (aka “Silent Cal”) died, the witty Dorothy Parker cruelly asked “How can they tell?”  I had a slightly similar question when I heard about the screenwriters’ strike in Hollywood:  “Why should we care?”
I know that the strike is not a good thing for the Hollywood economy, in that it will [...]

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My paying clients continue to give me work in vast amounts, which is severely curtailing my ability to blog — especially in the morning, which used to be peak blogging time for me. If it weren’t that my clients are such great people, the projects (for once) interesting, and the pay good, I’d say [...]

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