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...Christianity relies on Hollywood--or, at least, parts of Christianity thrive and define themselves in opposition to pop culture. There is a vast Christian entertainment industry, complete with wrestlers, comedians, novels, rock music and movies. The trumped-up campaign to "defend" Christmas has become a cottage industry for cultural commentators and Fox News personalities. And a narrative of cultural persecution among Christian political-activist groups--despite belonging to the U.S.'s majority religion and having a born-again President--keeps money and volunteers flowing to those groups...
...Hollywood is aggressively secular and materialistic, and it does stereotype Christians (and Muslims, single women, gay men, fat kids and, for that matter, Hollywood celebrities). But it also needs Christianity, maybe more than Christianity needs it. No one thanks Carl Sagan at an Oscar podium. The rich imagery and mystery of Catholicism made The Da Vinci Code (and its burgeoning knockoffs) possible. And while Christmas movies and TV shows may not involve many mangers, they quietly--and profitably--ratify Christianity as the default U.S. religion, as any Jew or Hindu can attest in December...
...That’s not to say the book isn’t important. Even if the average person wouldn’t need the pages of convincing that Tapscott and Williams felt necessary to include, one can at least hope that the suited men in Hollywood and New York read through all 300 pages.The two authors criticize the selfishness of the entertainment industry in closely guarding their products. They are obviously not close friends with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), but one can hope that the book’s abundance of positive examples is enough...
...will marry her. The fun, of course, is discovering how this 32 year-old loser becomes the ultimate winner: narrator Glen asserts that by 2006 he will marry Alison and become the richest man in Buffalo. Blitt has similarly transformed himself from borderline failure to commercial Hollywood success. “When I would go out to dinner, I would just always have so much in common with the 14 year old,” he says. “I’d have to pretend to be an adult, like I shared their experience when I didn?...
...game. Morgan A. Kruger ’07, a history and literature concentrator from Leverett House, is the HPT manager of the Woman of the Year/Man of the Year (WOY/MOY) celebrations. The Crimson sat down with Kruger to hear tales about Harvard’s biggest annual brush with Hollywood, and what it’s like being a woman in a primarily male organization partial to cross-dressing...