Conservatives and Show Biz

Conservatives and Show Biz

“There’s no business like show business like no business I know . . .” (Irving Berlin)

You got that right, Irving, even if your next 2 lines, “Everything about it is appealing, everything that traffic will allow/ Nowhere could you get that happy feeling when you are stealing that extra bow,” no longer apply.

To the average American, show biz in the 21st century is far less appealing than it ever was and is less involved in projecting happy feelings than it is in proselytizing, demeaning our culture, and propagandizing.

Oh, add to that making money, BIG money.

I know that’s an overly broad and subjective allegation which must be tempered by many exceptions but it’s still difficult to refute that in A.D. 2010 the entertainment industry, show business, stage, television, and Hollywood, are more sociopolitically polarized than ever and is almost exclusively dominated by liberal-leftists engaged as deeply in outright or subconscious “educating” as in entertaining.

Consequently, show biz is a hugely challenging life for conservatives.

If a right winger dare advertise his or her politics, social views and mores, he and she are often shut out of entertainment’s inner circles and pathways to success and stardom. It becomes tempting for those wannabes with a conservative bent to either conceal their personal philosophies or to live lives of baldfaced lies.

Again, there are exceptions, there are always exceptions to general rules.

The late Charlton Heston, Clint Eastwood, Jon Voight, Kelsey Grammer, Gary Sinise, Patricia Heaton, and the good Baldwin brother, Stephen, come to mind.

However, they are generally very low key and non-combative in expressing their views–except for Voight of late–and they have earned their star status by virtue of dogged perseverence and talent that would not be denied.

Rumor has it that Robert Downey, Jr. is a closet member of that exclusive club of conservatives but he’s not talking.

Those conservatives made it, they became major and lesser celebs, not because of the welcoming arms of the show business set but in spite of oh-so-tolerant Tinseltown’s and television’s gilded doors that were closed to those who failed to hew to the leftist line. . .
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Sex in the News. Part One {R-Rated}

Sex In The News. Part One {R-rated}

“And that’s why birds do it, bees do it,
Even educated fleas do it.
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love.”

The lyrics of Cole Porter’s 1920’s song, “Let’s Do It,” was a tad risque’ for its time even if its time was the Roaring Twenties when flappers were re-inventing the social structure and staging an early version of women’s liberation.

What the birds and the bees and both educated and uneducated fleas were doing wasn’t just flocking or buzzing or biting together but rather propagating their respective species via sex.

Despite the flappers, that subject–not propagation but recreational sex–had long been taboo in Hollywood and TV where censors always required one participant to have one foot firmly planted on the floor in bedroom scenes and words such as “pregnant” were verbotten.

Lucy and Ricky had to have twin beds because, God forbid, married couples couldn’t be seen sharing a bed. And Lucy wasn’t pregnant, she was having a baby which was more explicit language than was permissible when George Bailey’s wife conceived a child in “It’s a Wonderful Life” ten years earlier.

Mary Bailey was “on the nest.”

We’ve come a long way, baby, . . .

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1441)