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Friday, January 3, 2020

Never Trust Hollywood With History

Brent Bozell and Tim Graham Jan 03, 2020

Hollywood loves taking apart conservatives. So when presented with the idea of men in the highest reaches of the conservative media sexually harassing women at the office, it was manna from heaven.

You'll not find a TV dramatization of Harvey Weinstein's predations ripped from the headlines. There's no movie on the alleged sexual misconduct by Matt Lauer at his hellish NBC offices, or Charlie Rose's at CBS. There is only "Bombshell," a fictionalized account of the hostile, sexist atmosphere at Fox News.

The filmmaker on this one is Jay Roach, who has made a series of comically leftist movies for HBO, such as one on Al Gore being denied the presidency ("Recount") and one on Sarah Palin's losing turn as vice presidential nominee ("Game Change"). Roach's idea of a hero movie was "Trumbo," based on screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who, in the '40s, slavishly plopped Stalinist talking points into movies and belonged to the Communist Party USA, for which he was blacklisted.........To Read More...

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