Hollywood slips further into excess
It's taken a number of years but the recent writers strike convinced me the world can do without present-day Hollywood and its poor excuse for actors, comedians, and non-role models.
It was another revelation when I opened the papers the other day after the Academy Awards and did not recognize a single star's name or any of the movies chosen.
This was a head clearing victory over an old addiction and time to celebrate.
The reality is the content of most movies are nothing more than an extended serial episode of exaggerations, while injecting a commonly exploited dosage of violence, sex, or the psychotic disorder of the day.
It's inadvisable to bring to bring a youth to a movie without receiving at least 20 preview minutes of pronounced multi-sensory overexposure, typically lacking of a moral message or a story line of any originality.
In the latest act of desperation to improve theater attendance, we now have the theaters experimenting with serving booze.
This ultimately has us right where Hollywood wants to have us, in a stupor such that you will hardly remember what you viewed or where you were when you saw it.
Makes sense when non-accredited or hack producers are continually putting out sub-par productions to create a euphoria that the world is cool place and yes, I'm so very very cool in it.
Open your eyes, you're being carefully drugged and stupefied into submission by one of the oldest con jobs the silver screen could ever produce.
My advice is to visit your local library, find a nice quiet place and read a good book.
Jerry Bromley
Schaumburg