A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.
At the end of August the American Left wallowed joyously in 1960's nostalgia, taking comfort and joy in the alleged parallel between the wars in Vietnam and Iraq.
Coincidentally, F. Gary Gray, another up-and-coming African-American director, also scored a big hit with The Italian Job, a sophisticated caper movie released four days before 2 Fast 2 Furious.
Colorblind casting in recent blockbusters... proves that American entertainment now can transcend guilt and stereotypes.
Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.
Even worse, Schwarzenegger will find the skittish members of the legislature and the political press in Sacramento vastly less eager to indulge his whims and his will than the fawning yes-people who surround him in Hollywood.
For many celebrities, securing the public's votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.
Hollywood song-and-dance man George Murphy won a Senate seat in 1964, but failed ignominiously in his first bid for re-election.
Hollywood, in other words, has liberated talented black directors from their race-based movie ghetto, assigning them important commercial projects unconnected with African-American identity.
In the case of Asian-Americans, it's hard to imagine how favorable stereotyping or slight under-representation have damaged a segment of the population already enjoying disproportionate educational and economic success.
It's time to acknowledge that the TV ratings adopted more than eight years ago have proved to be a shabby, irrelevant, hopelessly confusing failure.
Many consumers remain oblivious to the vast gap between PG and PG-13 standards, and wrongly assume that both categories avoid harsh excesses in language, sex content or violence.
Meanwhile, the Jim Carrey comedy Bruce Almighty unequivocally casts its beloved black co-star, Morgan Freeman, as God himself.
Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.
Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.
Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.
Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting.
Such colorblind casting in recent blockbusters, along with the casual diversity of the TV ratings champ, American Idol, proves that American entertainment now can transcend guilt and stereotypes.
The human cost of the war in Iraq is genuinely horrifying, with more than 1,800 of our finest young people making the ultimate sacrifice.
The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.
The most amazing aspect of these embarrassing leftwing attempts to mobilize scriptural authority isn't that they lack all scholarly basis (though they do), it's that they so obviously contradict liberal orthodoxy about the importance of keeping religion out of politics.
The PG-13 category needs rethinking and relabeling, since the typical PG-13 release now contains enough sexual content and rough language to have earned an R-rating 10 years ago.
The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.
The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence.
This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.
We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.
He co-founded a synagogue in Venice, CA, along with Rabbi Daniel Lapin, called the Pacific Jewish Center.
He is a member of the Writers Guild of America.
Michael attended Palisades High School in Los Angeles.
He was arrested in 1971, in New York State, for carrying concealed weapons in his car. He had placed some steak knives that were given away as a promotion from a gas station in his glove compartment.
Prior to meeting him, Michael's wife Diane had written a negative review of one of his books in the "Los Angeles Times".
He was a regular fill-in host on the "Rush Limbaugh Show" before getting his own national talk radio program.
Michael was accepted to Yale university as an undergraduate at sixteen years of age.
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