2008 marks the 40th anniversary of Hollywood’s first major assault on the American audience through an insipid campaign known as “value manipulation” begun by former Hollywood lobbyist Jack Valenti. Through feature films, television, DVDs, video games, music and the internet, the entertainment industry has pumped-up the volume and intensity of coarse, vulgar and gratuitous imagery unlike anything that has ever assaulted the human senses with an extra dose of social/sexual/political agendas. Author Michael Vincent Boyer, a twenty year veteran of the movie industry, takes the reader deep inside the strategy and mindset of the individuals in Hollywood who are giving you what they want you to see and not what you want to see an [Read More...]
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The Hollywood Culture War is an extraordinarily expansive revelation into the increasingly explosive Culture War between “Middle-America” and the aggressively radical “Left-Coast” juggernaut of the all-consuming entertainment industry. Hollywood producers, directors, celebrities, politicians, professors, evengelists and a literal cast of thousands are introduced as warriors, willing or not, in a forty-year battle to define the boudaries in the global quest for the garden of good and evil.
The author, Michael Boyer, is a twenty-year veteran of the movie industry as a Location Coordinator and Film Commissioner. He manages to crunch the data in the entertainment industry to unravel “a long dark thread” that runs through Hollywood and is embraced by an industry that is not only out of touch, it is openly hostile to the ticket-buyers who ultimately, as the author describes, “pays for the multi-million dollar Malibu mansion, four-car garage, swimming pool, drug habits and ultimately repeat rehab bills.”
As George Clonney boasted at the Academy Awards, “I’m proud to be out of touch.” Among the thousands of revealing quotes extracted from the industry insiders, Boyer manages to find a “parallel universe” of filmmakers that occasionally realize, reluctantly, there is life outside of Hollywood, as Roy Bruer of Sony Pictures testifies, “We have to be very cognizant that we live in L.A. and that you have to reach out to find things that entertain the entire country.”
Boyer also explores the collusion between Hollywood and presidential politics that has resulted in “deals with the devil” as the author reveals the secret pacts between Tinseltown filmmamkers and the Democratic candidate Barack Obama. As the author explains, “There was much more to David Geffen’s Hollywood fundraiser for Barack Obama than 400 celebrities who paid $2300 each to ‘meet the candidate’ in a ‘private secured ballroom’ at the Beverly Hilton. Boyer presents examples of the “Geffen Agenda” that began showing up in Obama’s campaign speeches shortly after the February 19, 2007 event.
Certainly the most controversial chapter, as far as Hollywood is concerned, is Boyer’s proposal and detailed recommendations for mandatory random drug-testing in the motion picture industry not too dissimilar from protocols already in line for Olympic, profeesional, collegiate and amateur sports. Knowing the byzantine layers of the entertainment industry, Boyer provides a convincing proposition that many will find long overdue in an industry now known more for its celebrity train-wrecks than its movies and collective entertainment output. Boyer testifies to the destruction of drug abuse on countless celebrities and witnessed the slow-motion deaths of a dozen entertainers.
In Chapter 22, “Riding With The Devil,” the author exposes Hollywood’s twenty-year strategy to literally oblterate Christians and Jews through a well-orchestrated three-pronged strategy. This is the most disturbing insight into Hollywood’s persecution and religious bigotry to date from someone who worked alongside “the most atrocious, hate-filled producers, directors and actors in the industry.”
This massive tome concludes with a series of victories from “fly-over country” against the onslaught of the Hollywood worldview including the story of one man who took on every movie studio in Hollywood and won a major victory in order to sell a unique invention of simple proprietary
electronics that “put a clamp” on Hollywood’s vulgarity. It literally took an act of the President of the United States to save this ingeneous entrepeneur from Hollywood executives who, as the author explains, “would prefer to molest your children in the privacy of their office, but will opt to assault them over the airwaves and at the multiplex instead.”
Other sacred cows exploded by by Boyer is Hollywood’s New Age gods and members of their “congregation,” the coming death of hip-hop, and the bursting of the “Oprah Bubble.” The Hollywood Culture War is an intelligent, engaging, humorous and far more revealing Hollywood Babylon for the 21st Century.
Finally, someone from “inside” the movie industry has broken ranks with the “code of silence” to explain in very clear layman terms how the movie industry has been on a 40-year mission to radically alter the traditional culture of not only American moviegoers, but moviegoers from around the world. Boyer cites examples of many movies that reflect the warped mindset of the producers and then releases before & after research studies on those very movies that demonstrate dramatic shifts in audience attitudes, morals, religious beliefs, political affiliation, values and so much more. Boyer details the bleak worldviews and agendas of over 1000 celebrities who share a common disdain for thier own audience. And, he explains how the “infotainment” journalists cover for and actually promote movies to the masses by exploiting cult of personality worship.
As a producer for over thirty years, I am familiar with Boyer’s excellent work as a Location Coordinator and I applaud him for revealing what every American should know before they turn on the television set or visit the neighborhood multi-plex. Hollywood might actually start to show real profits if they would listen to their audiences again.
And, Boyer shows the true success stories of quality filmmakers who are fighting back against the darkside of Hollywood.