Hollywood

Ilana Mercer, October 24, 2014

  • “The power of the average pop artist and her products lies in the pornography that is her ‘art,’ in her hackneyed political posturing, and in the fantastic technology that is Auto-Tune (without which all the sound you’d hear these ‘singers’ emit would be a bedroom whisper).”—ILANA Mercer, “Harvey Sweinstein And Hollywood’s Hos,” The Daily Caller, October 20, 2017.
  • “Actors are a troupe that makes a living pretending to be something they’re not. Professional poseurs, if you like. Granted, they’re not parasites, like the politicians with whom they cavort. But Tinseltown is a left-liberal ideological collective. They march in thematic unison. That their cultural products have become artistically worthless could well be because activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories and good scripts. Hollywood is a pretty, pea-brained community.”—ILANA Mercer, “Thanks, POTUS, For Breaking-Up The Annual Correspondents’ Circle Jerk,” The Daily Caller, May 8, 2017.
  • “The conservative-minded masochist comes to the cinema fully prepared to confront and forfeit his ‘fascist’ sympathies.”—ILANA (April 13, 2012)
  • “Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism and abreaction have replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.”—ILANA (July 6, 2007 & April 13, 2012)
  • On Hollywood and Africa: “If colonialism was our original sin; capitalism is our cardinal sin. Our voracious system of production, these do-gooders typically claim, is a zero-sum game. To wit, the standards of living we enjoy come at the expense of Africa’s poor.”—ILANA (June 10, 2007)
  • “Mel Gibson raged against the generic Jew of his belief system—the Illuminati who manipulate world affairs from the center of the earth and are responsible for unleashing Pokemon on children around the world.”—ILANA (August 4, 2006)
  • “It’s hard to imagine Angelina Jolie tearing up over the systematic extermination of Boer Afrikaners by blacks. Or visiting an Israeli child who has survived a suicide bombing. I know she has hung out with the M.O.P.E (Most Oppressed People Ever aka the Palestinians). I guess some people just don’t die as well as others.”—ILANA (June 23, 2006)
  • “Bono, a compassionate pickpocket, uses his undeserved celebrity to get Western heads of state to transfer funds not their own into corrupt African coffers. For his philanthropy-by-proxy, this shakedown artist was named Time’s ‘Person of the Year.’”—ILANA (December 30, 2005)
  • “On That Timeless film, ‘A Christmas Story’”: “This was boyhood before ‘bang-bang you’re dead’ was banned, family life prior to ‘One Dad Two Dads Brown Dad Blue Dads,’ and Christmas without the ACLU.”—ILANA (December 23, 2005)
  • “There is a lot to dislike about the self-aggrandizing Brangelina of Benetton. But where is Bollywood’s match for these giving, gullible, American do-gooders?”—ILANA (August 17, 2007)

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