POST 21
By Darrell J Banks Cr
2014
Are you ready 4 days to
Oscar. As a relative of mine sees California for the first time, I too remember
those cotton candy mountains and the sounds of the ocean.
The relative will be
there for Oscar Sunday, and I hope he is given a tour of Hollywood and Beverly
Hills.
I often imagine what the Jewish
refugees from Florida felt when they decided to setup shop and create movies
free from baseball bats and thugs in California. Could they envision a multi-billionaire
epicenter that has driven a world market for the past thirty years?
Recently there has been
run about film production based on tax incentives etc. From Michigan, Europe
and New Mexico everyone wants a few million dropped by their local hotels, restaurants
and film studios. So much so that those who left Germany, the Midwest and
Hungary have had to complain to the local officials to retain the film
industry. The airline industry left
California, and a lot of high tech jobs moved to India and Seattle. I would
hope those child hood memories of Carson and Hope hosting the Oscars will
remain in Hollywood. I cannot imagine the Oscars one decade being held in Baton
Rouge. But as unions become a distant memory to many Americans don’t forget who
really made the stars of Hollywood shine.
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