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Let Holly -weird cancel itself.

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From giants like Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck, Paul Newman to...Brad Pitt, the Rock, and other interchangeable mediocrities.

Denzel is about the only good thing to come out of Hollywood in the last 30 years.

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My son works in the industry. He works as a key grip. Sad for the other folks who make a living in this industry.

It’s not just actors an writers.

He went to Savanah to work on a Tyler Perry production. Within a few days there were younger people coming in and working while the more experienced grips etc are not being called in.

This whole world needs a total revamp.

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I can certainly live without anything new coming from Hollywood.

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Every one of them is easily replaceable.

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I agree...all nut freaks...Hollywood

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My younger brother is a writer. He’s on strike. Lucky for him he has other resources to draw from. Not all do. I have a lot of sympathy for the writers. None at all for the professional narcissists aka Actors.

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Let them continue on their paths of self destruction. The sooner they’re gone the better. Make them obsolete.

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Well said Dr. Paul. Let the industry collapse. Bulldoze the whole thing and put in regenerative farms to serve LA. I’ve seen superb films but taken as a whole the movies bear responsibility for the sick preoccupation with sex and dead-end daydreams of the luxury lifestyle of the rich and famous. But, let the market decide. The sex-change industry is theater. Mutilating surgery is the ultimate make-up job to create the superficial appearance of something you are not. All about thinking your life is a movie, a fantasy, a world of make-believe with a million fans on social media. A lot of little Norma Desmonds of every age running around in costumes made of flesh.

The attributes of women we are so familiar with and will always treasure trace back to the XX chromosomes. Much imitated but never equaled. Imitate all you want, but don’t bother me with it. Are we not sick and tired of fraud in the current administration? Do we want Bill Gates’s mechanical pollinators or real honey bees? Do we want to live in and share the natural world for all perpetuity or an AI/glass/plastic imitation that can NEVER offer the complexity, depth, texture and soul gratification of reality?

Have you read “Dune?” There was some gratuitous violence in the book but a lot of prescience as well. I’m beginning to understand the jihad against machines that imitate the human mind.

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I completely agree!!!!! And it is timely. We need to clean up this Earth of ours and so start with the factory of so much violence & negativity. Cause for celebration.

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I tuned out of a lot of movies and television way back in the 80s.

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Yes, who cares! A waste of time!

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People should watch blade runner 2049- they’ve always signaled what they want to do to us. Predictive programming

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I feel this way about most performing arts. If no one wants you, move on.

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🤣🤣🤣

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlMYyszNyJw Just give a listen.. somewhat profound today no?

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