HOLLY WOULD: Laughing at America's Entertainment Industry Hollywood is a bullshit factory – a main street Armageddon spitting out consumer fantasies of how easy it is to wipe out enemies & kill with joy-stick ease. Hollywood is a huge brain-suck machine replacing independent thought with Mickey Mouse fantasies. Today Sunset Boulevard has rumps though countless minds 'n most people kun only find an exit if they close deir eyes. Terri: Dis guy has it wrong – a certain amount of funtasy iz healthy. Sam: Indeed. Fantasy helps us survive reality. Kris: More often than not, fantasy actually becomes reality. Tim: No – it's not that easy. Reality takes a lot of hard work, and only lasts the twinkling of an eye. It is very fragile. Fantasies can persist for lifetimes. . . . ================================================================================= from _AmeriSong: Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Amerika_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: Some thoughts about mass entertainment and Hollywood fantasies. KEYWORDS: American entertainment industry, mass entertainment, mass movies Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 1999 in Taipei, Taiwan / Finished: 2020 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST http://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong//fut.htm TOC http://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/index.html NEXT > http://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/kun.htm