The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Fear and Loathing in a Highgate Mansion: Johnny Depp Is Decadent and Depraved

Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in 2003 (left) and as a loser in 2018 (right). If you haven’t read Rolling Stone‘s 10,000-word profile of Johnny Depp, I can summarize it briefly: He’s wrecked. He’s ruined. The Pirates of the Caribbean star has utterly destroyed his career and reputation, and is rapidly approaching financial ruin. […]

Latest #MeToo Target: Morgan Freeman

  What? You thought Oscar-winning elderly black men were exempt? A young production assistant thought she had landed the job of her dreams when, in the summer of 2015, she started work on “Going In Style,” a bank heist comedy starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin. But the job quickly devolved into several […]

SJWs Ruin Everything

  How does Hollywood make money? By producing popular entertainment; or By advancing the cause of social justice? Some people seem to be confused about this. Millions of dollars are thrown away annually producing “artsy” and avant-garde films that nobody wants to see, but the biggest waste of dollars in Hollywood are movies that seek […]

Nickelodeon’s #MeToo Moment: Producer Dan Schneider Fired Amid Rumors

Dan Schneider, alleged pervert. Monday afternoon, Nickelodeon children’s TV network dumped producer Dan Schneider and, as Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva writes, “for years Schneider had been under a cloud of suspicion over the treatment of some younger stars of his shows”: Among the things that have raised eyebrows are his tweeted photos of the toes of […]

‘Beta Male’ as Rorschach Inkblot

  Ace headlines this “Notes from the FriendZone,” which is one of the milder reactions to The Hollywood Reporter‘s latest cover. New Hollywood Reporter Cover Celebrates “Triumph of the Beta Male” — InfoWars Magazine Hails the ‘Triumph of the Beta Male,’ and Gets Relentlessly Mocked — MRCTV Are The Men Gone? This Hollywood Reporter Cover […]

‘You Sent Me to Whore School!’

  That’s a line from Red Sparrow, the latest “strong woman” tale from Hollywood, a genuinely wretched movie starring Jennifer Lawrence. After watching the trailer for that and other recent films, Professor Ann Althouse has seen enough of this toxic cultural sludge: Notice how they all have strong female characters at the center but everything […]

No, Our Boys Are Not ‘Broken’

  Talk about “toxic masculinity” interests me, because I know very well what that looks like — the domineering behavior of the brittle ego, the obnoxious braggart who feels that every social encounter is a contest in which he must demonstrate his superiority. Nobody likes a bully, and if the critics of “toxic masculinity” were […]

Hollywood’s Homo-Hypocrisy

Headline at Mediaite: After Months of Attacking Roy Moore, Hollywood Releases Film Romanticizing Child Molestation Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? When I saw that headline, I immediately had a hunch and — surprise! surprise! — my hunch was correct: As the year comes to a close, Hollywood releases its final batch of films, many of which will […]

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