‘L.A. Times’ Writer Slams ‘Anti-Hollywood Crowd’ With Everything But Facts

The other day, the L.A. Times’ Patrick Goldstein responded to this post of mine with a beauty of a headline: 

“New Muhammad biopic drives the anti-Hollywood crowd nuts” 

You know, sometimes you just have to put politics aside and take a moment to admire the tactics of your opponents, because no matter how you slice it, that is one gorgeous humdinger of a headline.

At a glance, the headline intentionally furthers the whole “conservatives are intolerant” narrative with the inference that I somehow have a problem with a big-budget biopic about the prophet Muhammad. Later in his piece, Goldstein doubles down on that smear with this:

But as usual, the news has aroused a storm of derision from conservative bloggers, who always find a way to be offended by any high-minded Hollywood project.

Odd… Especially when the very first sentence – the opening line — of my piece says the exact opposite: (more…)

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Tags: big hollywood, L.A. Times, Muhammad biopic, Patrick Goldstein
Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 6:43 am in Film, Media Criticism, Religion | 257582105 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/05/l-a-times-criticizes-big-hollywood-with-everything-but-facts/%27L.A.+Times%27+Writer+Slams+%27Anti-Hollywood+Crowd%27+With+Everything+But+Facts2009-11-05+14%3A43%3A58John+Nolte

Hollywood Backing Perv Polanski Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone

There has been much indignation - and rightfully so - from various parties over the fact that Hollywood is ”circling the wagons” around Roman Polanski, who was finally arrested in Switzerland after being a fugitive from justice for over 30 years for the drugging and subsequent rape and sodomy of a 13-year-old girl despite her pleas to stop – to which he pled guilty, by the way.

An excellent article, which really says it all, is by Kate Harding over at Salon.com – if you haven’t read it yet, you should. She reminds us that Roman Polanski – wait for it – raped a child. I don’t care if the victim, now 45, wants it all dropped because she’s tired of being the focal point of publicity. I don’t care it it’ll be a drain on California’s over-extended budget (how about not footing the bill for the education and medical care for illegal aliens? That’d fix things in a big hurry). I don’t care if she “looked” older than 13, or if her mother was the proverbial stage mother from hell, or if the sky was green instead of blue that day. And I certainly don’t care that Polanski is such a talented director – what WOULD we do without Hollywood to entertain us? – with a troubled past of his own. Many of us have troubled pasts. We don’t all use it as an excuse to do whatever the hell we want just because it “feels good” at the time. (more…)

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Tags: academy awards, American Beauty, Debra Winger, hollywood, Kate Harding
Posted Sep 30th 2009 at 4:58 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 237158119 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2009/09/30/hollywood-backing-perv-polanski-shouldnt-surprise-anyone/Hollywood+Backing+Perv+Polanski+Shouldn%27t+Surprise+Anyone2009-09-30+11%3A58%3A32Pam+Meister

Round Up of Hollywood’s Polanski Supporters

This is how degenerate Hollywood’s become: Today it’s more damaging to your career to buck the “cool kids”  and speak out against the child rapist than it is to be the child rapist.

The round up below took twenty-minutes to put together. Who knows who or what else is out there. And don’t forget it’s early. Hollywood’s Rally ‘Round the Child-Sodomizer is only 36 hours old.

Harvey Weinstein:

“We’re calling on every film-maker we can to help fix this terrible situation,” Weinstein said. Sources close to The Weinstein Company said the mogul would reach out to Hollywood to lobby against any move to bring Polanski to the US, where he could face up to 50 years in jail.

Patrick Goldstein: (more…)

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Tags: Jeff Wells, Patrick Goldstein, roman polanski, Zurich Film Festival
Posted Sep 28th 2009 at 8:48 pm in Entertainment, Politics | 237042152 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/09/28/round-up-of-hollywoods-polanski-supporters/Round+Up+of+Hollywood%27s+Polanski+Supporters2009-09-29+03%3A48%3A48John+Nolte

Joining the ‘endless parade of crazed right-wing culture critics…’

My wife and I argue about once a year. It comes from nowhere and starts for no reason. It’s a cleansing of sorts where we burst into a litany of long held grievances: You live in the bathroom! You leave dirty dishes in the sink! You have the TV too loud at night! You drive too fast…! Anyone listening to this little rock throwing contest would think we were crazy, and this kind of “crazy” is what came to mind while reading the L.A. Times own Patrick Goldstein’s burst into a fit of rock throwing at Debbie Schlussel. (more…)

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Tags: Debbie Schlussel, L.A. Times, Patrick Goldstein, watchmen
Posted Mar 6th 2009 at 8:39 am in Media Criticism, Politics | 73802153 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/03/06/joining-the-endless-parade-of-crazed-right-wing-culture-critics/Joining+the+%27endless+parade+of+crazed+right-wing+culture+critics...%27+2009-03-06+16%3A39%3A51John+Nolte