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Hollywood’s Narcissism Leads to Bean-Counting the Oscars

Hollywood’s Narcissism Leads to Bean-Counting the Oscars
Oscars statuettes are on display backstage during the 92nd Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., on Feb. 9, 2020. Richard Harbaugh/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images
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It’s been a notorious fact for people of any discernment and discrimination for many decades that the Hollywood film industry—while capable of producing remarkably fine, apposite, and culturally significant films from time to time—is a seething hothouse of hypocrisy, philistinism, bigotry in all fields, pretension, and is a crumbling Ozymandian monument of poor taste and reprehensible conduct.

Conrad Black
Conrad Black
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Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world. He’s the author of authoritative biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and, most recently, “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other,” which has been republished in updated form. Follow Conrad Black with Bill Bennett and Victor Davis Hanson on their podcast Scholars and Sense.
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