This dude got it right...

Published on April 20, 2006 By ----- In Entertainment

Help! I'm A Hollywood Republican!

I am a Hollywood screenwriter. I have written feature films, episodic television, movies for network and cable. An Emmy Award for the screenplay for my film "The Devil's Arithmetic" sits over the fireplace in our living room. I have won numerous awards and I have, thank God, made a good living in Hollywood. For an Orthodox boy from Brooklyn raised during the 60's and 70's, when all my classmates were bred to be doctors, dentists and accountants, I was obsessed — unnaturally so — with the movies.

I am a Hollywood screenwriter. I have written feature films, episodic television, movies for network and cable. An Emmy Award for the screenplay for my film "The Devil's Arithmetic" sits over the fireplace in our living room. I have won numerous awards and I have, thank God, made a good living in Hollywood. For an Orthodox boy from Brooklyn raised during the 60's and 70's, when all my classmates were bred to be doctors, dentists and accountants, I was obsessed — unnaturally so — with the movies.

For a considerable period of time, I kept my level of Jewish observance a secret. I did not wear my yarmulke to Hollywood meetings. I understood, on the deepest level, that wearing your religion on your sleeve would be professional suicide. I understood that though Hollywood professed to be "open and tolerant," when it came to religion — any religion, except for something harmless and fashionable like new-age Buddhism — Hollywood was as open as, well, the KKK.

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I think this guy said it brilliantly. Hollywood and its 'openess' only stretches as far as needed. (Remember that hypocrit blog i wrote previously...)

Sadly, I want to move there. (NOT for the politics. God forbid...) For going (hopefully) to school at either USC or UCLA (or neither- majoring in Filmmaking/screenwriting -or- creative writing)

Alas...we all have to tolerate things at certain times in our life....

Until next time...

~EW

Comments

Dr Guy

on Apr 21, 2006

IN one respect, no two, hollywood is like a university. It is overwelmingly liberal, and the people there have no conception of reality and real life.

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on Apr 21, 2006

True enough...

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