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From: "ScottW"
Date: 10/9/2004 9:35 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: wrU9d.12480$_a3.5335@fed1read05

"paul packer" wrote in message
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On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:56:09 -0700, "ScottW"
wrote:

"pyjamarama" wrote in message
e.com...
Seems the French problem with the U.S. is envy after all...

Citing Hollywood's stranglehold over the film industry as an example,
Chirac stressed that only with government assistance could countries
maintain their cultural heritage.

This is pretty funny. While much of the world goes gaga over the trash
hollywood produces Americans wonder how people can be so shallow as to
think
Hollywood represents American culture. I think this is what spawned the
saying, "Get a life".

ScottW

Americans may wonder, but the act remains that to much of the world,
especially the Third World, Hollywood DOES represent American culture
and values.

the act remains very good.

It may be a sad fact but where to put blame and more importantly... how to
fix it?

Are you happy to have Hollywood representing you?

No, Wake up world, movies and entertainment TV aren't real life America.
Oh my god.... the shockwave around the world.

ScottW

I got news for you folks. "Hollywood" as in American film to a large part *is*
American culture and American culture was for the twentieth century the most
significant and memerable culture in the world.