Reason Magazine: Zach Weissmueller Interviewing Gavin Polone- ‘Hollywood Hypocrites, Bad Films & The Future of The Industry’

Source:Reason Magazine- interviewing Hollywood writer and producer Gavin Polone.

Source:Real Life Journal

“In the entertainment industry, you see a lot of very preachy people, who are very ‘Save the Bay,'” says Gavin Polone, a Hollywood producer, former talent agent and columnist for New York Magazine’s Vulture.com. “And then, you know, they’re getting on a private plane.”

Polone, who’s produced such memorable projects as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Panic Room, Zombieland, and Gilmore Girls, has a reputation for speaking his mind, even when what he’s saying isn’t popular. He sat down to speak with ReasonTV’s Zach Weissmueller about the irritating and hypocritical preachiness of celebrities, why film subsidies are killing the entertainment industry and hurting the economy, the urgent need for the studios to adapt to new technology more quickly, and why he describes his politics as “more libertarian than anything else.”

About 9.30 minutes. Interview by Zach Weissmueller. Shot by Sharif Matar, Alex Manning and Tracy Oppenheimer. Edited by Weissmueller.” 

From Reason Magazine 

Hollywood is stereotyped as very far to the left compared with the rest of the country. And I’m not going to describe them as liberal, because they are not. Liberal on social issues, but not liberal in the classical sense, which is where my politics is.

A lot of Hollywood people talk like leftists, but live like liberal capitalists who love their wealth and freedom and would die in order to protect it. They will talk about saving the day and calling out the latest right-winger that they claim they don’t like during the day, while as Gavin Polone said flying on their private jets at night and living the Hollywood hipster lifestyle and going to one wealthy person party at night.

And as Gavin Polone put it and I would put it this way, so-called Hollywood leftists (who are just Classical Liberals in actuality) are always calling for more government and social programs, or restrictions on free speech and perhaps other personal activities, while they’re going out of their way to not pay taxes and defending their rights to free speech and personal freedom.

Some of the wealthiest people in the world, are actually people who talk like leftists and supposed leftists. Actresses Susan Sarandon and Jane Fonda are both worth over 100 million dollars. Where did they get all of that money if they hate capitalism and economic freedom so much? Not to pick on these two great actresses who I love as actresses and entertainers more broadly, but they are also acting when they talk like leftists and support leftist politicians and candidates. And talking like leftists and living like liberal capitalists is very common in Hollywood, it’s not just Sarandon and Fonda.