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THE JEWISH NEWS
Michael Medved
Does Hollywood
MICHAEL ELKIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
ichael Medved's
explosive
Hollywood vs.
America: Popular
Culture and the War on Tra-
ditional Values — with its
picture of Tinseltown as a
ragtag band of mercenaries
marching to battle, out of
step with the rest of the
nation, mocking the very
values on which the country
is based would make a great
war movie.
But don't count on any
conscription booths at Spago
or fatigue boots on sale at Bi-
jan. War is hell —especially
when it's being waged from
within. And with all its
success at special effects,
Hollywood is rarely affected
by reality. But then, argues
Medved, it has rarely had a
handle on getting the big
picture.
But Michael Medved does.
The former Philadelphian
and current Californian, co-
host of TV's "Sneak
Previews," is not one for
sneak attacks in print. His
book is bold and
straightforward, making its
move on movie makers
without compromise, deflec-
ting the film industry's
defensiveness.
At a time when some
Americans are up in arms
over family values, Mr.
Medved provides ammuni-
tion against a town whose
most martyred example of
motherhood may be the title
character in Alien.
Oy vey for Hollywood?
"Family values is not a po-
litical issue," says Mr.
Medved. "It is not a Repub-
lican or Democratic issue. It
is a concern for every decent
American."
On that level, says Medv-
ed, Hollywood fails the
screen test. It promotes
promiscuity, uses marriage
as a map for depicting wedd-
ed blitz and nonchalantly
portrays illegitimacy as a
legitimate lifestyle.
Yale graduate Michael
Medved has credentials in
the business. He has worked
on a number of scripts — in-
cluding Yentl — and has
served as a source of exper-
tise on Hollywood for a
number of TV news shows.
The popular author con-
tends that his viewpoint is
more popular than
Hollywood would have one
believe.
"Everybody knows this
business is in crisis and is
rotten to the core," says Mr.
Medved. "It is a climate
where the ship is going down
and all the major entertain-
ment companies are in deep,
deep trouble."
What also is troubling is
the way Hollywood handles
religion, says the author, a
Jew who observes Shabbat.
"In addition to the obvious
antipathy to various forms of
Christianity displayed in so
many recent movies," writes
Mr. Medved in reference to
such works as At Play in the
Fields of the Lord and The
Last Temptation of Christ,
"Hollywood has also attemp-
ted some significant jabs at
Judaism."
Michael Medved notes that
although the punches aimed
at Jews are not as powerful
as those aimed at Chris-
tians, Jews can't take much
solace. "This has less to do
with the high concentration
of Jews in the movie in-
dustry than with the
prevailing perception that
Judaism is all but irrelevant
as a religious system,"
writes Mr. Medved.
Not that Jews and
Judaism are left unscathed.
Mr. Medved cites a number
of Woody Allen films — in-
cluding Radio Days and
Crimes and Misdemeanors
— as misdirected attacks on
Jews.
Woody Allen isn't the only
source for such japes at
Jews: According to Mr.
Medved, Enemies, a Love
Story, based on a work by
I.B. Singer, presented a less
than loving portrayal of a
rabbi, played by Alan King.
Indeed, rabbis often take it
on the chin: Mr. Medved
cites the one who shaved off
his beard in The Outside
Chance of Maximilian Glick.
What are the chances, asks
Mr. Medved, of a Chasidic
rabbi doing just that, turn-
c ing his back on his con-
gregation and becoming a
stand-up comic?
What is not funny is the
way Americans view the
movie makers of Hollywood.
"Jews still run
Hollywood," says Mr. Medv-
ed. "The most serious prob-
lem we have is that, in an
Michael Medved:
Old still sells.
era when a substantial por-
tion of America hates the
movies and believes that
movies and TV corrupt their
kids, that substantial por-
tion can blame the Jews.
"There is no question that
some of the anger and
alienation people feel toward_
Hollywood rubs off int ro-
classical anti-Semitism."
Those same moguls havej
mixed feelings about their
own people and religion.
"Hollywood says yes to
Jews, but no to Judaism,"
says Mr. Medved.
When the lights dim in the
theater, there is little illu-
mination on the real Jewish(
experience. And when some-
thing is depicted, the picture'
is usually skewed. For in-
stance, says Mr. Medved, "E',1
you have a Jewish character 1
on screen, he is only allowed )
to fall in love with a non-
Jewish character."
But moviemakers ticket;
other groups for such treat-
ment, too. Indeed, Mac
Medved takes umbrage at
the way Hollywood projects
other images, including that
of the woman in today's
society.
"If you pick up a news-
paper and look at the gar-
bage in the multiplexes, you
can be horrified," he says.
Certainly, says Michael
Medved, it is frightening to
think that there could be a
more sexist and unbecoming
anti-female film such as
Death Becomes Her, whidii
explores the theme that ag-)
ing women are useless
members of society.
Unlawful Entry, with its
focus on two men struggling
,