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It's not just actors who can't pay the rent in Hollywood these days.... I speak from the perspective of twenty years in show business. Almost every friend I have made was in that business and is still in that business. I like them, have fun with them, and I write this piece because perhaps I can make a contribution toward the understanding of a serious problem affecting all of them, and all of us too.

I had to get out of show business after twenty years because a physical impairment made it impossible for me to get acting work. I had also functioned as a comedy writer for various comics who fell into public disfavor (meaning they were no longer thought to be funny, ergo I was no longer thought to be funny). It has come to an empty present in which all my show biz friends are crapping their pants. There is almost no work—reality shows need no scripts, actors, or conventional directors—and much of what work remains takes place in non-union countries. Those labor union loving Democratic Beverly Hills liberals ain’t about to pass up the chance to hire scab labor if they can get away with it. And the stars develop no guilty consciences trotting off to jolly old Spain, Monte Carlo, or a syphilis free zone in S.E. Asia when there is a buck to be made and U.S. craft unions to stiff.

We are now in an era where movie grosses are declining like the last sickening drop on a roller coaster ride in spite of—or partially because of—a nearly fifty percent rise in ticket prices. Some of you may be happy about this situation because you feel these “Left Wing Assholes” have it coming; I’d only point out that we all have a right to our opinions; my friends have always helped me without ever asking who I voted for; and most of us will not pass up a good movie because an actor or actress has said awful things. For me, only Jane Fonda is excepted from that rule.

What is happening now—attendance collapse, TV viewing collapse--- has happened before. I’ll take you back to the thrilling days of yesteryear for a few examples. There was a time when the comedy shows on TV suddenly took a surprising hit. Nobody could figure it out. Suddenly somebody at some network decided that the writing was “too Jewish.” It was true that all writing staffs were almost 100% Jewish, so to solve the problem and obey the suits, show producers (themselves Jewish), hired wops, spics, nazis, and everything else on the planet (contrary to modern feminist bullshit, women had always been all over the place). It just so happened that at that time I was in the second week of my very first TV comedy writing job, and “last Jew hired first Jew fired” hit me. I even showed up to work with a holy St. Christopher’s medal hoping to avoid the axe. Bang. Out the door. Some dago bitch replaced me and her first “joke” had to do with taking the dog out back and breaking its legs for crapping on the carpet. It got howls. The second had to do with shoving her infant son’s head in the toilet til he “talked.” I couldn’t believe it. Co-incidentally or not, ratings went back up. It has been surmised since, that the narrow focus of the Jewish experience simply was not the experience of the wider audience. Jokes about possessive mothers, kids with charge accounts at school cafeterias, and so on weren’t funny. New jokes had to include local street criminals, women with hair on their faces, guys who stayed away from home getting loaded, tail gate parties at football games, slutty women and so on that were created by majorities popped up on every show.

To give you an idea of the Jewish dominance in the comedy writing field before 1969 or so, check this out. Here is the staff for the biggest hit show ever at the time; “Your Show of Shows” (the Sid Caesar comedy show): Larry Gelbart, Woody Allen, Neil Simon and his brother Danny, Mel Brooks, Selma Diamond, Mel Tolken–not a goy in the bunch. The Evangelical Christian, Carl Reiner, came later. Jackie Gleason’s writing staff included a ton of talent including, Arne Rosen, Coleman Jacoby, Marvin Marx, Walter Stone, Herbert Finn, Leonard Stern, Sydney Zelinka, and Andy (“What? Me Jewish?) Russell. The Jewish talent dominated, AND they were great writers. Under the new edict, at least half of those guys would have been bounced out too. ¹ Whatever, the new writing resulted in a big rise in the ratings, proof that Jews ain’t the only people who can be funny.

I mention here that I come from a Jewish father-Catholic mother background. I was raised a Catholic but had more than just casual contact with Jewish culture, humor, and so on. I will tell you that there is a difference in the two senses of what is funny, and that difference is profound. Comedy written from lots of backgrounds is decidedly funnier than comedy written from only one. Tell me that this Roseanne Barr joke could ever have been created by a man: “People keep telling me, Roseanne Roseanne, you’re just too masculine. I just tell them to suck my dick.”

Like magic, ratings rose to new highs.

Now I take you to the year “The Godfather” came out. Lots of people who saw it for the first time saw it as a story with a Catholic background that they could relate to and understand. The wedding opening was something audiences had actually experienced, as were baptisms, confessions, and Mafia supporting priests with questionable moral principals. That wedding sequence had not a trace of Jewishness and was totally honest in its presentation. The popularity of “The Godfather” came just after the collapse of the Hollywood Studio czars, who most felt were simply “out of it.” Old guys like Mayer, Cohen, Spiegel, the Warners, together with all their families and friends simply lost touch. They were fired by their boards of directors. New young Jews came in who did the same old shit and movies were not doing well.

Then the sixties and seventies happened and suddenly there were Catholics, Protestants, Blacks, and everybody else demanding entry. The dago, Coppola, with his gangster movie epic simply blew the walls down. Everybody swarmed in. Movie grosses went up. The Goyem Big Shots were driving their Ferraris, Benzes, and yachts into the country clubs of SoCal. Even bitches became studio heads. What had been an industry dominated by Jews suddenly became an industry dominated by talent from other areas of the country. As an aside here, I don’t believe there is a single Jew heading a movie studio today.

My friends tell me that there is a new problem now. Check out the movies and TV and what do you see? The casts contain no real men and no real women. The men are weak, swishy, and androgynous; the women are cookie cutter pretty and hard nosed to the point of being repellant. Could any of the men in TV sit-coms get and hold a job where you work? The homosexual content of many movies like Troy and Alexander---Orlando Bloom as King Richard the Lion Hearted? You gotta be kidding me—and the literal ton of lesbian themed TV shows like O.C. and The L-Word do not resonate with most people. Deviant sexual content at every level of script, kinky camera angles by directors, and performing talent that has no connection to reality is taking its toll.

Keep in mind that the near billion dollar grosses of Passion of the Christ are not even listed in the top grossing searches on Google. The entire industry, their critics, and their flacks just ignore reality. Tell me that ain't a problem.

All of my actor friends tell me that the casting is being done by men in dresses and dirty talking women with no make up who dress in grunge jeans. So guess who gets the parts? Name me five young masculine leading men—let’s see, there’s the guy in Gladiator who may be forty, the two serial killers in----. Even more, name me five leading young actresses who you would want in your life for more than a fast fuck. They are all one night stands that nobody sane would want in their lives for any longer than that. The writing is the same. They populate their scripts with weak men and promiscuous women who cheat and laugh about it. Do you ever believe the scenes where women beat up men? Do you know any men that would take a slap in the face and not deck the bitch? Do you? If you do, you are in the minority of people who continue to support Hollywood product. In real world relationships behavior is modified because of the physical superiority of men over women, and it is the clever and sometimes ruthless ways women use to make up for this deficiency that makes many classic dramas work; check out the Robert Mitchum Jane Greer little classic, Out of the Past, or any Humphrey Bogart movie you can think of together with a thousand other movies. The writing was lean, the direction clean, and the characters clearly male and female. Or when they weren’t? Check out Peter Lorre and Vincent Price–the link has a photo of a perfectly nasty and gay Vincent Price. And Lady McBeth showed what a weaker woman could do, right? Late Add: emailers far and wide mention the Herpburn-O'Toole Lion in Winter as best of the Physically Weak Woman Strong Man movies.

You dismiss this opinion piece as homophobic? OK. But none of us work around a bunch of swishy fruits. As families we do not associate with lesbians and whores. Most of us are not remotely like that, yet that is most of the TV fare presented in our homes. The movie business is in the toilet, TV viewing is in a disaster zone, and the main reason is not the Left Wing political activism of the stupid movie stars. It is the content of the product. A product that is disconnected from the experiences of most members of the audience.

There is no other explanation.

There is never any other explanation.

I have mentioned on this site more than a few times that kids are now playing computer games (revenues higher than the movie and music business combined) that allow the player to create their own characters and situations. There is a game in which the male player hires a whore and then beats the shit out of her when she tries to cheat him, the initial situation created by the player. I saw my nephew playing a game in which the hero—the player—gets laid by almost every woman he meets, but lots of those women then attempt to kill him. Most of the game tension arises out of the onslaught of pissed off women the player must handle without going to jail for life and still accomplish his purpose (which escaped me). The game is diabolically complicated and real. A PC movie of that game would be loaded up with PC commentary, a chickenshit man, and some lesbian with "rights" who kills him.

Will things change for the movie and TV business? Will there ever be work for actors and actresses again? Will there be opportunities for writers to write stories? You got me.

I haven’t covered Broadway—ticket prices exceed $100 per ticket—that is 100% lisping men in tight pants shaking their asses paired with sexually aggressive women in tight pants trying to convince audiences they really, really want men and not the women they are rubbing up against. A totally homo-erotic—actually homosexual--- theatre that is completely shut off from main stream America. And the Broadway casting? Jesus, give me a break. Then ask yourself, when was the last time a hit tune came out of a Broadway Play? Or a hit movie? Hit movies become Broadway plays—Phantom, Lion King—not the reverse.

Anyway, that is how a lot of my friends see the business right now and they are really scared, unemployed, and having trouble paying the rent. I do not know if the civil rights nut cases in charge of things will change structure. They may not be able to fire a bunch of fruits like they fired the Jews.

¹The music business was also largely Jewish, Johnny Mercer being the single exception to the Jewish Music Mafia in Hollywood. Everybody from Oscar Hammerstein to the Gershwin brothers was Jewish—and super talented. Harry Warren (go here and be amazed), Al Dubin, Dorothy Fields, Frank Loesser, Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn, Harry Warren and others wrote literally thousands of hit songs for hundreds of pictures. Most were under contract to 20th Century Fox. Yip Harberg wrote hundreds of songs too, including the ultimate Depression Era song, "Buddy can you Spare a Dime." Take a look and see if you think these guys should have been replaced.