Way back in the 20th Century Hollywood producers and stars used to have gossip columnists like Hedda Hopper and satirical comedians like Fred Allen to keep them from full-frontal indecency in the face of the public. There used to be more respect given to public decency back then. Today? What has happened while I was busy getting old?
Hollywood doesn’t even have to pretend to not be Satan’s Temple of Pandemonium on earth anymore? Depravity is being sold like a gourmet meal kit? There must be a whole new customer base out there. Sure there were perverts aplenty in the 1950s, but now? Quantity becomes Quality.
Never mind the box office disaster of Disney’s $350 million flop Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and never mind the shocking success of the $14 million independent anti-pedophile feature Sound of Freedom which made $80 million over the July Fourth Weekend despite being shown on half the screens compared to Disney’s flop. Never mind all that, that’s not news!