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Barry Levinson on real Hollywood politics

More from a conversation with Levinson about his new picture, PoliWood:

"What's funny about Hollywood is that it's always considered liberal. But break it down and Hollywood is Republican. It's owned by Republican corporations. GE is Republican; Disney is Republican; Murdoch is Republican; they're all Republicans.

"It's the employees that are the Democrats. Yet when people get angry at the products of Hollywood, they get angry at the employees, not the owners. It's the same as in Detroit!"

Then Levinson brings the analogy home: "The problem with Hollywood is that when it's concentrating only on making X-Men 6 or Spider-Man 16, it's like Detroit only making SUVs!"

Posted by Michael Sragow on May 9, 2009 2:37 PM | Permalink

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What is Levinson smoking?! GE is run by Jeffrey Immelt, one of the MOST notoriously liberal men in the entire USA!

Posted by: Randy | May 9, 2009 9:58 PM

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Michael Sragow saw the greatest movie ever made, The Wild Bunch, six times in two weeks in 1969 and has been arguing about it and other movies in print ever since. He has been a movie critic for the Sun since 2001 and a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1989. He is the author of Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master (Pantheon, 2008).

Chris Kaltenbach has been writing for The Baltimore Sun since 1982 -- the same year Barry Levinson's Diner was released. For the past 15 years, he has been writing off-and-on about the movies, as both a critic and reporter. He has spent more time watching movies at the last 10 Maryland Film Festivals than probably anyone else.

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