The 2022 Academy Awards Are Not Likely to be a Knockout

March 28, 2022 9:49 amMarch 28, 2022 10:00 am

And This Year’s Oscar For Most Disingenuous Rationalizing Goes To… …just about everyone. The preliminary television ratings are not out yet for the 2022 Academy Awards, but the speculation is that even the rather ineffective right cross to the chin...

Is Big Brother’s Racial Equity Hurting Reality TV?

July 21, 2021 12:39 pmMarch 23, 2022 11:51 am

Twenty-One years ago, CBS launched its summer hit reality TV show Big Brother. This is a game in which 16 houseguests are put into a house and cut off from the outside world. There are no TVs, news, radio, internet...

How Hollywood Is Helping Fund Political Races Outside California

October 31, 2020 10:04 amNovember 2, 2020 2:57 am

For decades, political donors in Hollywood often just gave general contributions to the major candidates or, far more likely, the party itself to divest to big races. And while there is a sizable number of Republican donors among those in...