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Hi Troy,

Let me answer this question first. Why Do I live here? Because I could no longer take the type of the close-minded, rigid, mindset as the one you are displaying here, that was prevailing where I used to live.

If you would like to continue along the lines of this question, you are welcome to come to the Outside, where I will tell you everything as it is, with kids not listening.

A couple of interesting observations regarding your post.

First - your equating Hollywood with American art. I really dunno what forces apparently intelligent people to make big blanders like that.

I would submit to you that George Innes and Gershvin have just a tiny bit more to do with American art than your beloved Hollywood.

Making off-the-wall and far-out remarks like that surely does little to enhance one's position.

So you love Belushi - no, I am not even going to repeat that "genius" statement.

OK, that is your choice. But let me submit to you that if our kids learned just a little bit less about food fights, orgies and crushing beer can on their forhead, and just a tiny bit more about math, they would not score they way they tend to score in the international tests - well behind all developed and not-so-developed countries.

But you may remain proud of that part of our heritage.

To say the Euro culture is full of deviants is easy, until one take time at the ROLES those deviants play there, and the relative proportion of such creations in the overall volume of culture.

Even more interesting is the fact that you also apparently equate Hollywood with American films. As others and myself have already indicated here, there is plenty of interesting life outside Hollywood... you might check that out.

Furthermore... my euro-elitism... let me break this news to you: last time I checked Japan was not a part of Europe... it was a part of a thing I would call WORLD. Ditto for Brazil, Mexico, Korea, Vietnam, India and a few other places, most of which a typical American student can't find on a map.

America is still just a small part of that beautiful world, and if one is over-concentrating on Belushi, he is boud to miss that.

Anyway, going back to my original premise - I do believe that Hollywood started and led the trend towards the dehumanization of the movie art, and in that trend it has gone far too far, and we are fortunate that many other places have fallen behind it in that trend, or we would not have many, many beautiful works of art produced elsewhere... in "Europe" by your definition, in the "rest of the world" by mine... things like the Sea is Watching that I discussed last night.

So I truly believe the problem is not with me, but with the closed minds of people like you.



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