"So you're paying Charlene Mayfield $12 million?" I asked.
"Look," Van Doren said. "Other countries pass laws requiring that their movi
e theaters, television networks and radio stations have to play a certain pe
rcentage of home-grown entertainment. Because if they didn't, Hollywood woul
d wipe it all out. We're not a world leader because we have nuclear missiles
and submarines. We are because we have Bugs Bunny and the Dukes of Hazzard.
Our planet is what Hollywood has made it."
HARD MEMORIES
"I'm wondering," Michelle said. "This award tells me that you believe I have
reached into myself and touched some fundamental humanity, some common bond
that ties us all together. But could I reach into myself and find this fund
amental humanity if I were not human?"