You hear from time to time about liberal Hollywood. Hollywood is full of liberals. Hollywood’s liberal agenda. Holly-weird. Hell-i-wood. This year we saw campaign ads featuring famous actors telling us to save the world by voting (obviously for Hillary Clinton). At the Golden Globes Meryl Streep, well, if you saw it you saw it. This may be the most liberal we’ve seen Hollywood in a long time (and maybe ever), but this isn’t Hollywood lashing out as a world of liberals so much as it is Hollywood lashing out as an enemy of Donald Trump. And this time they see someone they can’t help but recognize: A rich celebrity with less political experience than most politicians.
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More People Are Reading of Noah in the Bible After the Film’s Release
More People Are Reading of Noah in the Bible After the Film’s Release
More People Are Reading of Noah in the Bible After the Film’s Release
Say what you want about the faithfulness of the Noah film to the text. The film is getting more people to read the text itself.
Education, The War on Dirty Jobs, and the Worst Advice in the World
“Opportunity Is Missed Because It Is Dressed in Overalls and Looks Like Work”—anon.
Peripeteia: A reversal of circumstances
Anagnorisis: A critical discovery
Want to hear the worst advice in the world? Let Mike Rowe present it to you.
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The Oscars are a Joke, but Some Awards Weren’t Deserved Anyway
Why Zero Dark Thirty Got What It Deserved (nothing but an award in sound editing)
Why Argo Should Not Have Deserved Best Picture, but why it was typical that it did.
I haven’t seen Argo, but have heard all about it and it looks like a relatively enjoyable political thriller very loosely based on a true story. From the looks of it the “best picture” award was given so Hollywood could pat itself on the back for the time it may or may not have been a pivotal factor in rescuing hostages.
CALEB COY 