Hollywood: Tara or Sodom?

Responding to Michael Medved's lamentations of doom, James Wolcott reminds us that Hollywood has never reflected "traditional values":

...from its birth it's reflected urban energy, cosmopolitan taste, social conscience, and pagan fascination, and when it's conformed to conventional pieties, as during the dreariest stretches of the postwar period, when disillusionment and subversion had to sneak in through the shadows of film noir as the topline product stayed shiny, bright, and chipmunk cheerful.

Don't forget to cheer for the picture about sodomite ranch hands while chilling the vodka at your Oscar party tonight.