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Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 4, 2024

When Hollywood Gets Political: Partisan Profits

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Entertainment celebrities and businesses alike risk losing customers and thus revenue by taking positions publicly on political issues. Fear...
Friday, March 2, 2018

On the Allure of Popular Suffrage

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In the European singing contest/show in which Susan Boyle competed, she lost the top spot to a teenage rap group. The method of selection m...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Hollywood’s Conflict of Interest in Trade Negotiations

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At the intersection of business and government, a conflict of interest can be indicative of plutocracy, the rule of wealth, at the expense ...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Hollywood Bribes China

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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, known as F.C.P.A., “forbids American companies from making illegal payments to government officials or ...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Hollywood on Risk: Snubbing Lucus’s “Red Tails”

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When George Lucus showed  Red Tails  to executives from all the Hollywood studios, every one of the execs said no. One studio’s executives d...
Friday, December 2, 2011

A Dangerous Method

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The method being referred to in  A Dangerous Method  (2011) is psychoanalysis, as pioneered by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). The danger referr...
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