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...JUST AGREE WITH Michael Medved and have done with it? In his new book, Hollywood vs. America (HarperCollins, $20), Medved, a critic on the PBS show Sneak Previews, denounces today's movie industry -- and by extension the TV networks and music business -- as "an alien force that assaults our most cherished values and corrupts our children. The dream factory has become the poison factory...
...June, the Quincy House Film Society claimed rights to show Bat- man Returns, Alien 3, Wayne's World and,fittingly, Patriot Games on campus thisyear...
...AMERICA'S ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE seems suddenly alien and hostile to many citizens, there is good reason: they have never seen anything like it. Nothing in memory has prepared consumers for such turbulent, epochal change, the sort of upheaval that happens once in 50 years. That may explain why so many voter polls, taken as the economy shudders toward the November election, reveal such ragged emotional edges, so much fear and misgiving. Even the economists do not have a name for the present condition, though one has described it as "suspended animation" and "never-never land...
...bizarre way, television's storytelling has become a form of representational democracy -- or symbolic democracy, anyway. Perhaps, as Quayle says, the mythmaking roles are in the hands of a cultural elite that is alien to much of America. Still, being sensitive to the market economy of ideas and entertainment preferences, television naturally represents various American points of view and dilemmas. It churns out a visual rhetoric, an electronic folklore. It is the griot of American transience...
...point that "Hollywood doesn't like our values." Many in the TV industry agreed that the whole display was, at the vematically disparage such values as patriotism, religious faith and marital fidelity. "Tens of millions of Americans now see the entertainment industry as an all-powerful enemy, an alien force that assaults our most cherished values and corrupts our children," he writes. "The dream factory has become the poison factory...