First Hollywood star

I have made my position clear on several occasions. The film world has never had an impact on the real world. It is a fantasy environment and is taken by the real world as fantasy even in the case of documentary films.

The political pronoucements of Hollywood celebrities are even less important in the real world than films themselves. Comic books, movie stars, blockbuster movies and theatrical people are in the same irrelevant category. Entertainment.

I must now make an exception.

One person has climbed out of that fantasy culture and had an impact on the real world.

That one person is Clint Eastwood. Eastwood who is a director, producer and actor did an improv piece at the Republican convention this year, with the empty Obama chair, that introduced an image and a language into political rhetoric. It fit so perectly that it stuck.

That is truly a significant contribution to the real world.

I will have to be more restrained in the future in denigrating the importance of Hollywood.