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This morning Steyn started the day on one of his favorite shows, "Varney & Company" on Fox Business. Stuart quizzed me about Venezuela's collapse and the resurgence of beards, but Fox chose to post our discussion on Hollywood. Click below to watch:
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A GENERAL COMMENT: I'm really perplexed by the hyper-critical comments here about movies and actors, made by people who have never made a movie themselves and never acted in one either, I'm betting, and from those who state on their own how long it's been since they watched one. It's like the people who sit in the stands at a basketball or football game and critique the coaches and players up one side and down the other, yet they never played the game (or if they did they weren't any good) nor coached a game, and probably never read a rule book nor studied the opposition. It's also like the largely anonymous YouTube viewers who trash the videos and short films of creators and influencers, just because they can. I've been both an actor, a writer and a head coach and you might think I would be very critical of those in the industry, but even I am far more charitable to others than I'm seeing here in this thread, regardless of my political affiliations nor the calibre of their work. I always stay at the end of a movie and watch ALL the credits, whether I particularly like the movie or not, just out of respect for the effort and the risk-takers, while everyone else gets up instantly and leaves the theater. It take a lot of guts to put your work out there for everyone to tear apart just because they can. Dinesh Desouza's movie "Death of a Nation" is being trashed by Leftists as I write this, just because they can and are full of hate for conservatives and the Truth. Most likely none of them even saw the movie. I saw it Wednesday night and would encourage everyone to see it, but more, to be supportive of the effort and the risks taken by those associated with it. Because they DO risk a lot in this political climate.