LEAKED NETWORK MEMO REVEALS: Obama Controls Your Television Set

On September 10th of this year the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) posted a press release informing the world that “from October 19-25, more than 60 network TV shows [will] spotlight the power and personal benefits of service,” and that this “unprecedented block of TV programming is the first wave of a multi-year ‘I Participate’ campaign.”

On its face this all sounds rather benign in that silly, liberal do-gooder kind of way. The networks have launched these kinds of campaigns before and other than some clunky exposition awkwardly inserted into your favorite show to meet the mandate — no harm, no foul.

But this year there are a couple new strangers in town: “Volunteerism” and “Service.” You’ve heard of them. Their names have been bandied everywhere since President Obama took office, and this internal memo from the EIF to network showrunners obtained by Big Hollywood shows that the entertainment industry is well acquainted and eager to introduce both to as vast an audience as possible: (more…)

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Posted Oct 15th 2009 at 3:04 am in Entertainment, Politics | 246630851 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/10/15/leaked-memo-reveals-the-white-house-has-control-of-your-television-set/LEAKED+NETWORK+MEMO+REVEALS%3A+Obama+Controls+Your+Television+Set2009-10-15+10%3A04%3A39John+Nolte

Aren’t You A Little Old To Watch Cartoons?

…Why, yes. Yes I am!

But considering the plethora of culturally and politically “controversial”  (read: “contrived to be offensive for promotional notoriety”) ‘toons currently offered up for consumption like a plate of live centipedes in Interzone, the silly stuff is more than refreshing.  It’s soul food.

YouTube Complete Opening Theme by Bowling For Soup with Fan Credits

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Enjoyable as it is to see conservative and libertarian viewpoints deemed worthy of existence in “South Park,” and as side-splitting as the adult humor and pop cultural references, sans a blatant political agenda, may be in “The Venture Brothers,” there has long been a need in the human psyche for pure, unadulterated lunacy.  (more…)

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Tags: cartoons, disney, Entertainment, Phineas and Ferb
Posted Sep 16th 2009 at 6:48 am in Art, Entertainment, Reviews | 22404259 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sgraves/2009/09/16/arent-you-a-little-old-to-watch-cartoons/Aren%27t+You+A+Little+Old+To+Watch+Cartoons%3F2009-09-16+13%3A48%3A42Scott+Graves

Do The Warhol—Part 1: The Business of Vision

Your correspondent, as absorbed by the Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky Street, Pittsburgh, PA.

A dance craze— like “freaking”— it is not, but rather, a point of view.

Back in January of this year, Andrew Breitbart announced “Big Hollywood’s modest objective: to change the entertainment industry”.  The announcement is as important as it is radical, assessing the power of Pop Culture in shaping global attitudes and standing athwart contemporary assaults on Western values, yelling, as did William Buckley in 1955, Stop.

Ask yourself: Is a vision of the world that is contrary in almost every way to the prevailing cultural paradigms a difficult “sell”?  Given this is always so, how is such a challenge overcome? (more…)

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Art, artists, classical liberals, Conservatives
Posted Jul 23rd 2009 at 6:56 am in Art, Classic Hollywood, Politics | 17912639 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sgraves/2009/07/23/do-the-warhol%e2%80%94-part-1-the-business-of-vision/Do+The+Warhol%E2%80%94Part+1%3A+The+Business+of+Vision+2009-07-23+13%3A56%3A47Scott+Graves

Unions Seem Determined to Kill Michigan Film Industry

A lot can be said about unions supporting wage earners and creating a middle class. However, a lot can also be said about unions ruining this country.  Case in point: Michigan.

You would think that after the UAW destroyed the auto industry and the tax base in Michigan, the people of the state and the unions based there would have learned. However, this is not the case. In the latest union disaster for the state of Michigan, the IATSE has decided that the blooming film industry in the state must be stopped before it even gets started.

As most of you in the film business know, the state of Michigan has one of the most lucrative tax credit/rebate programs in the industry. The state gives you 40% of every qualified dollar that you spend in the state. In addition, if you shoot your film in a few core areas such as Detroit, you will get an additional 2%. That’s a whopping 42% of what the producers’ qualified in Michigan spend. On a 20 million dollar budget, this can amount to a gift from the state of Michigan of approximately 6.5 million dollars after you subtract the non-qualified costs. (more…)

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Tags: Entertainment, Film, IATSE, Michigan, Motion Picture Tax Credits
Posted Jul 17th 2009 at 2:49 pm in Film, Politics | 185882128 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/fdemartini/2009/07/17/michigan-loves-its-unions/Unions+Seem+Determined+to+Kill+Michigan+Film+Industry2009-07-17+21%3A49%3A35Frank+DeMartini

‘The Dark Knight’: Year One

What is the difference between art and entertainment?

There is, obviously, some overlap: Not all art entertains (though some does); not all entertainment is art (though some is).  At bottom, it seems, the difference is one of intent – the artist seeks to connect us with larger meanings, larger truths about the world, about ourselves.  The primary focus of art is therefore to illuminate, with any entertainment had in the process merely a bonus.

The goal of the entertainer, on the other hand, is perhaps less sublime, though no less worthy – to distract, to tickle, to stimulate the fancy.  Entertainment is at bottom diversion, and I say this without a trace of disdain – often it is the quality and quantity of our diversions which makes the difference between a joyful life and a merely bearable one.

One year ago this weekend, a beating black heart pulsed in summer’s midst: The Dark Knight.  It was big-budget, comic book based franchise movie, made for popcorn eaters seeking suitable summer diversion.  And It delivered beyond the filmmakers wildest expectations – the masses were so entertained that they lifted it up into the box office stratosphere in grateful recompense. (more…)

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Tags: aesthetic theory, Art, batman, Bruce Wayne, Chris Nolan
Posted Jul 17th 2009 at 6:47 am in Film, Politics | 183118108 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mpatterson/2009/07/17/the-dark-knight-year-one-run-friday/%27The+Dark+Knight%27%3A+Year+One+2009-07-17+13%3A47%3A26Matt+Patterson

And Now For Something Completely Different, Please

This week’s Washington Times column:

As CPAC begins in the nation´s capital later this week, the conservative movement has much to contemplate as it attempts to reestablish itself as a dominant force in American political life.

Actually, “relevance” may be a more reasonable short-term goal.

The timing of the yearly Conservative Political Action Conference could not be better suited for evaluating the strategies of the standard bearers of free markets and limited government as free-spending and nanny statist Obamaism runs amok with nary a media check or a legislative balance. (more…)

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Posted Feb 22nd 2009 at 9:20 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 64250105 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/02/22/and-now-for-something-completely-different-please/And+Now+For+Something+Completely+Different%2C+Please2009-02-23+05%3A20%3A01Andrew+Breitbart