VERN HUMPHREY wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT>RJT>Yeah,  I've seen that topic surface from time to time.  The
RJT>RJT>stuff they
RJT>RJT>really gets me,  and how they do it.  Like the way the
"hero" can
RJT>RJT>run away something happening fast enough to stay ahead of the
RJT>RJT>flame/explosion front, dodge bullets,  and similar nonsense.

RJT> VH> Well, if guns are a problem in this country -- they're the ones who
RJT> VH> created it.  And they did it for money.

RJT>Just for money?  There's gotta be more involved in it than that.  Their
RJT>attitude that "guns are yucky" for example...

VH> My point is, people who are anti-gun get rich making movies where
VH> guns are used, and which glorify violence.

Oh,  okay.  I see what you mean there.

 VH> But hypocracy is apparently not a vice in Hollywood.

Nope.

What bothers me a lot about that sort of thing is that such folks are held
in very high esteem by so many people.  And for what?  Being good at
pretending to be somebody else?  Being able to be a good subject for
glamorization,  a good canvas for the makeup artist and their tools?  Yeah,
 right.

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