(Updated 10/01 12:29 EDT) In all the controversy over what to do about fugitive film director Roman Polanski, currently in Switzerland awaiting possible extradition to the United States to face a thirty-year-old rape charge in California, the one moment that stands out for me is the reaction of French filmmaker Luc Besson, as quoted in the London Daily Telegraph:
The seemingly charming forthcoming comedy The Invention of Lying is actually a concerted attack on belief in God.
The ax has fallen on the first casualty of the new TV season. S. T. Karnick explains why.
The usual fall doldrums have hit the Hollywood box office particularly hard this week–with Bruce Willis’s lugubrious persona a prominent victim, S. T. Karnick writes.
Great Britain and the United States — despite a few dust-ups in the late 18th and 19th centuries — have long been the best of friends. Our alliance, forged in a shared culture of respect for democracy and liberty, has been responsible for the preservation and promotion of freedom across the globe. And it is a relationship to be honored. Someone needs to tell that to our current president. His latest petty but harmful slight to our greatest and most essential ally is one of a string of insults that may eventually do irreparable damage, writes TAC contributor Jim Lakely.
The new ABC-TV sitcom Modern Family is modern, all right, but it doesn’t show much respect for the family, S. T. Karnick writes.
Valuing ideology over art cheapens the product, tarnishes the story, and enslaves culture to politics, Daniel Crandall writes.
Once again, low-rated shows, largely with a negative attitude toward American institutions and the conventions of bourgeois life, dominated Hollywood’s Emmy Awards for primetime television programming this year. In the awards announced on Sunday night’s telecast, the industry’s elites once again demonstrated their disregard for their audiences’ preferences and their intent to continue using their bully pulpit to turn the nation into a banana republic. For details on winners and losers, see the Reuters report.
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