Big Hollywood

Today’s L.A. Times: For years, Frank Miller spoke of a Gotham City graphic novel that would be like no other — for the 120 bone-crunching pages of “Holy Terror, Batman!”...

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So a new survey reports that one in five Californians need help for a mental or emotional issue. Seems low, if you ask me. I mean – this is California, home to Sean Penn, Mel Gibson and the...

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On June 24, 2010, I had a post on BigHollywood that examined Robert Redford’s asinine statements about the Gulf Oil Spill. From his support of a drilling moratorium to the fact that he literally...

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I have to admit, when I first heard about the Oliver Stone interview where he accused the Jewish Lobby of controlling the Media and US foreign policy, an uneasy chill ran down my spine.  In...

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Is the incredible out of the reach of social planners? The Founders believed that happiness is the object of government, by which they meant virtue, or the proper workings of the human soul. It was...

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As a political music blogger with no political credentials and horrible musical taste, it was a huge deal when I found the very first straw-man Daily Kos rebuttal to an article of mine.  According to...

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So after this whole Shirley Sherrod thing, I’m thinking, Andrew Breitbart has a point. —– Let’s review: The Tea Party was born, causing a frightened media to drum up...

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I’m sunbathing naked again.  No one can see me.  Just birds and bees.  And red ants. And God.   I guess I’ll have to move back to FL.  I love LA. But, my family needs me in FL. I...

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Patrick Goldstein and much of the butt-boy entertainment media have either outright ignored director Oliver Stone’s anti-Semitic comments or have dug a deeper hole for their credibility in...

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Think back to your high school days, and you’ll likely remember at least one classmate who never quite fit in, even among the nerds and geeks. Someone who just sat in the corner with a book or...

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—– “Let’s cut to twenty-five years later, I’m still married – none of my kids have been busted for drug possession. Can Al and Tipper Gore say the same thing? I...

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Some of you may recall that early in the morning of July 28 of 2006 actor Mel Gibson was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in Los Angeles, California. During that arrest, it was reported that...

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So as you know, Wikileaks has posted a crapload of secret military reports about the Afghan war, including covert operations against Taliban figures. They claim their goal is to reveal...

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

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A personal incident has given me a particular perspective on recent news about the media. Last Tuesday, I received word that the French release of my thriller novel Empire of Lies had been canceled...

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At the impressive Jewish Museum in Berlin, which carefully documents hundreds of years of German Jewish life and achievement, as well as the catastrophe of Hitler’s rise and ruination of...

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Fox News: Filmmaker Oliver Stone has apologized after critics slammed him for making comments that were interpreted as anti-Semitic in an interview last Sunday. While promoting his documentary “South...

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How many women have to claim they were raped and/or sodomized by fugitive director Roman Polanski before Hollywood starts to treat him with a tenth of the disdain they have for Mel Gibson?  How many,...

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