An important new forum in the American culture is the newly opened website Big Hollywood. It’s run by Andrew Breitbart, Matt Drudge’s close associate, which means it will have a lot of readers. It is jam-packed with opinion pieces on a wide variety of cultural issues and events. It’s frankly right of center in its political, social, and cultural ideas, but ecumenical in its opinions—there’s no party line there.
The site permits, for example, a difference of opinions on one of the most controversial topics of our day, homosexuality. Some of the opinions I do not agree with, but there’s much information and informed commentary on the site. Highlights include editor John Nolte’s "TCM [Turner Classic Movies] Pick of the Day" columns, a defense of Andrew Lloyd Webber, and articles by Hollywood insiders critiquing the industry’s shibboleths.
In addition, yours truly is a featured writer on the site. Visit Big Hollywood and add it to your Favorites lists.
—S. T. Karnick
Right, Mike. I think it’s important that there should be cultural phenomena that don’t toe a strict party line, and BH is definitely that. It’s not The American Culture, but it’s a very good thing, in my view.
Sam:
‘Big Hollywood’ is a tentative step in the right direction, but I have real reservations about Tinsel Town’s “conservatism.”
Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, so many of Hollywood’s self-designated “conservatives” don’t really merit the designation.
When they realized on September 12, 2001 that they just might have their heads handed to them in the next terrorist attack, they became true believers — in national defense. Otherwise, on social issues like abortion, fetal stem cells, gay rights, etc., the majority kept going along on “liberal” cruise control, and I see little evidence that actors like Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Miller, Jon Voight, and a few others really subscribe to conservative values.
I do like the fact, as you say, that “[i]t is jam-packed with opinion pieces on a wide variety of cultural issues and events.” To me, that is its chief virtue.
Best regards,
Mike