The Anonymous Production Assistant

Hollywood Conservatism

I should amend yesterday’s post.  I made Hollywood’s liberalism seem monolithic, when that’s not completely true. I worked at a video production company where all the top people were conservative.  They went to church.  They had four or five kids each.  They were married to the same person for decades. It was bizarre. The staff […]

I’m a Self-Pitying, Self-Indulgent Narcissist With My Head So Far Up My Ass That I Equate “Occasional Discomfort During Cocktail Party Conversations” With “Being on the Fucking Blacklist.”

Allow me to explain. There’s an article from the Hollywood Reporter making its way around the blogosphere, “Republicans in biz feel stifled, bullied.”  (Their headlines are so creative.) Now, I don’t generally talk about politics, because that’s not what this blog is about.  (Unlike John Rogers, who, in the last two months, has posted maybe […]

Politics in Hollywood

I don’t often talk about politics, but after two weeks of conventions, people aren’t talking about much else. Here’s a sampling of some of my Facebook friends’ status updates in the past couple weeks– B___ wishes he could write hilarity like Palin has foreign policy experience because “she’s up there in Alaska which is right […]