hollywood was. all in portraying the soviet union in a positive light during world war 2 that the new us president harry truman began to quickly regret it after the surrender. of the quintile is still a. little bit didn't. know should it be able to the left to say as. she whirled in a 1000000 users you. need to realize that is the closest good we are at the school to the use of. the british in those little. in the 19th thirties the communist party in the united states is pretty strong. and i say that is a good thing they were critical in fighting early fighters for civil rights in the united states hollywood has attracted all these creative artists writers directors producers actors and actresses and intellectuals were the ones who are most attracted to the communist ideal and they wanted to see the soviet union is representing something better than the sword and materialism of american capitalism so in 947 the house un-american activities committee or down on hollywood it was this committee that in

the hollywood began producing state of. anti-communist films during this time with the same propaganda averages nobody ever is idealistic about anything the women. are they were 'd beautiful as they were beautiful they were nymphomaniacs now my students find them laughable but at the time they were taken seriously movies like i was i mean as for the. i married a communist i read moscow guilty of treason the red menace this was a terrible time in america in 954 the united states and great britain released an animated film called animal farm just based on a novel of the same name by george orwell its production was sponsored by the cia which was very interested in the anti soviet subtext of the story which is about a farm and the big 3 seized power there. but by the sixty's and seventy's relations between the us and the new with the star had already reached the point of the time and this was immediately reflected in the hollywood pictures the soviet union was still in the present and as a friend of the united states but he wa

hollywood, the town where dreams are plentiful but rarely come true. ♪ ♪ welcome to hollywood ♪ >> reporter think the one lucky break has finally come your way, you have to take it, right? ♪ hollywood ♪ >> so i was in crete on holiday when i received the first email about this project. it was called "the master." they were looking for someone who was looking to step up into a design role. >> reporter: makeup artist heather had worked in film and television before. but this was her chance of a lifetime. the film was being produced by a woman named leslie chow and a big chinese production company with a $70 million budget. >> she said, i'm impressed with the work you've done, i'd love for you to come here. >> one person with power, one person with money, can turn your world around. >> every time i went back to them with a question, they came back to me with absolute, definitive reasons why they wanted me for the role. they even quoted people i'd worked with in the past. >> this person was doing their research and reaching out to people with just enough familiarity to make them think it was a

americans are like john wayne, because hollywood said so. hollywood said so because americans in the 60s wanted to project that they were like john wayne. we get this sort of infinite loop that just grows and grows, but there's room for divergence to throw another film reference in there. there are always movements thinking outside the mainstream box. new wave cinema, gonzo films, independent films, and now this is where the new mediums really take hold. i don't need a major film distributor to pick up my movie. i can sell it to youtube, and more people can watch it in two days than will pick up the entire summer block buster season. it's not the same experience not seeing it on the big screen. so you might not internalize it the same way, but there are definitely ways to sneak alternative narratives in there, and over time this is sort of the process we see. the things that used to be outlandish, i mean, think about the blacksploitation films and how shocking it was to roger ebert, i don't know what he would say if he saw "jango unchained".

hampden-sydney college professor matthew hulbert looks at depictions of slavery in hollywood films ranging from birth of a nation and gone with the wind to django unchained and free state of jones. he talks about how early films glorified the lost cause and argues that while recent films show the horrors of the slave trade and resistance by enslaved people the idea of the white savior is still often central to the narrative, virginia tech's center for civil war studies hosted this event and provided the video. and today's speaker, dr. matthew christopher holbert is part of this series and he qualifies. he's an assistant professor at hampden-sydney college not too far out of his university of georgia phd program, but even though he's an up-and-coming scholar. he has already published four books. he's authored our edited these four books two of them are on the subject of film and memory very appropriate for tonight. and even though it's an online event. i brought a profile along with me. one of those books is called writing history with lightning and it's a collection of essays. he co-edited

they win several oscars, but what they really do for a generation of americans is they put a hollywood sparkle on the elite southerners who maintain the institution of slavery and for american moviegoers and especially those from the north or the midwest who are not as exposed to sort of the cultural artifacts of slavery on a daily basis. this is going to help these movie goers fall in love with these larger than life characters who really cannot be separated from their moonlight and magnolia lifestyles if you ever want to go down this pop culture rabbit hole go on ebay and look at some of the gone with the wind stuff, you know. that was produced during the film or subsequent international releases. there are plates. there are silverware. there are action figures. there's posters. there's dolls. there's anything you can possibly imagine and they really just reflect the reach of these films and this specific view of southern society that they're laying down as a blueprint that many moviegoers are going to assume is based in some way on reality now because these films are immensely popul

and from one hollywood's biggest night it's bring it into taming janice k.j. matthews who's joining us from los angeles good to see what a moment a full clip is out but just tell us more about this the space film why was it so convincing for the academy. you know i think it's resonating with so many people really across the country during the pandemic this movie has a number of things it deals with the loss of a spouse it deals with the loss of a job it deals with the loss of your kind of identity in just traveling not knowing where you know where to pick up your life after so many things fall or fail in life and so i think this movie really resonated with a lot of people even people living academy particularly during this time in the pandemic and it was just so well done so many of the people in the film were actually rovers were actually homeless so it would just really have that bit of authenticity in a way that most films don't let's talk about some of the at the when is there any surprises there. yes i would say the best actor category the best actor osca

. ♪ and those hollywood nights ♪ ♪ and those hollywood hills ♪ ♪ she was lookin' so right ♪ >>> we are more hollywood nights until sunday night's academy awards. >> and this year's oscars promises to look very different than previous years, so this morning we're looking back at sme of the greatest moments of oscar history. let's bring in will ganss for more details. good morning. >> you know when this comes to oscars i have this thing on lock. you already know. you already know. after virtual baftas and emmys, we're gearing up for the oscars. a look back at some of the biggest moments in oscars history. and don't worry, we didn't include the streaker from 1974. the most unforgettable moments. >> you like me. right now, you like me! >> the slipups. the slip up. >> this is not a joke. "moonlight" has won best picture. >> the longest speech of all time. >> i'm very happy to be a part of this industry. >> greer garson speaking for more than five minutes, and it was already past midnight. and decades later, joe pesci, slightly more concise. >> it's my privilege. thank you. >> with just days

and hollywood's biggest night yet spring is tame agenda's k.j. matthews who joins me now from los angeles good to see you said there was no orchestra yes i mean. what stood out for you in the it's called have been reinvented to a cost. yes it was very interesting you know 3 hours 15 minutes and you know there were no musical performances and no host and very few presenters and actresses were there because of the cold it restrictions i'll be honest with you i really missed having a host and having live performances and having all those kind of spontaneous moment like oring pizza like they did a couple years ago he's so i missed that you know but we got something different this year we got a lot more speeches that were more meaningful for people to just focus on that i really really like that tyler perry made a great speech after receiving that humanitarian award where he talked about you know he wanted to see everybody kind of come together and stop hating so much and how there's just so much and so many divisive and polarizing things happen so it

to most people the movies in their theaters mean hollywood, hollywood, california, usa, the city thatnot a city, only a post office branch of los angeles, where 30,000 specialists working in 272 separate arts and crafts, sciences and trades make the movies, working as a team to put their ideas into pictures. ♪♪ >> the end product of their labor is a continuous piece of film about an inch and a half wide and almost two miles long. containing approximately 150,000 still pictures and frames. ♪♪ >> the reason these pictures seem to move is because of the fact that they can be flashed on the screen at the rate of 90 feet per minute, like this. film is silver coded celulose, and it's a by-product of cotton, and there would not be any movies if bails of cotton were not grown each year in our states, and that cotton is shipped all over the country in order to go through a process like this, from cotton to cellulose, to a thin sheet of celluliod, and then silver is used to sin saw ties. cotton and silver are only the beginning. it's takes a lot of other things to make the movies. it takes lumb

we are looking at the dolby theater in hollywood.hows producers spent countless hours making sure the biggest award show of the year feels as such and it is promising less of the virtual zoom this year and more looks at the stars in their seats. so whether you are a fan of independent flicks are big budget blockbusters, they say this year they will have something for everyone. we are in la to get us ready. >> reporter: if i am a fan of marvel cinematic universe movies, and i can't wait for fast and furious nine, and if i love to get online and talk about how i think ryan johnson is the best director in star wars history, what does the oscars have for me? >> i can love that and i can love moonlight or nomad land. >> reporter: the oscars producers stacy share has made movies that mary mass in class. he has led the charge to diversify his membership. >> the idea that the achievements of black panther are any less than the achievements of citizen kane is misguided. and i do think that people realize that. >> reporter: the 93rd oscars hop

hollywood or is there something there? yeah, mostly mostly hollywood. i mean they in fact madam walker and booker t washington did get off to a rocky start. so there's a real drama there real life drama. he was the most powerful black man in america and she wanted his endorsement. so she attended his conference, but it was a little different from or a lot different from what you see in the film. she went to his tuskegee campus uninvited and kind of charmed her way in and then she appeared at his 1912 national negro business league convention, and she had just contributed a thousand dollars to the building fund of a ymca in indianapolis. so he knew who she was he had met her before but when she got to the conference, she was ready to speak and he said no, but it's different from what you see in the film and i think i like the reality more because she waited until that. stay of the convention would he didn't give her an opportunity to speak and she stood up and gave a great speech saying i'm a woman who came from the cotton fields of the south and i have

you know unveiled last week in america out of hollywood of all places and so i'm just looking at the psychology of this and how ponzi schemes continue to operate whether on an individual scale or all the way up to the central bank level and here was the 1st tweet i saw in my stream the day that this broke last week mid week and is blowing my mind that this quad say rand was able to raise 2 $127000000.00 from investors for a scam production company when there are literally hundreds of real indie producers struggling to get real movies made how are investors this stupid this was an actor called zack avery 34 who was arrested last week and in fact the ponzi scheme was 690000000 but he managed to you know he was paying off previous investors with new investors so he managed to get away with 227000000 that he failed to pay back but if you look at that headline of like here's this ponzi guy how did you raise 690000000 when real production companies with real products. don't get made just like in our economy where real manufacturers we're real wealth producers real content creators like the

how would i define hollywood is they call it a dream manufacture which had things true. belief it's a propaganda factory. hi i'm max keiser this is the kaiser report i wonder what we're going to talk about today let's find out talk with stacey stacey what are we talking about today well we're talking about ponzi schemes because there's been a big ponzi scheme that was. you know unveiled last week in america out of hollywood of all places and so i'm just looking at the psychology of this and how ponzi schemes continue to operate whether on an individual scale or all the way up to the central bank level and here was the 1st tweet i saw in my stream the day that this broke last week mid week and is blowing my mind that this quad say rand was able to raise 2 $127000000.00 from investors for a scam production company when there are literally hundreds of real indie producers struggling to get real movies made how are investors this stupid this was an actor called zack avery 34 who was arrested last week and in fact the ponzi scheme was 690000000 but he managed to you know he w

the golden age of hollywood. bill big names. the golden age of hollywood-— big names.carpet. _ hollywood. all of a sudden they are on a red carpet. it's - hollywood. all of a sudden they are on a red carpet. it's quite i are on a red carpet. it's quite are on a red carpet. it's quite a novelty. and in commercials and social media. it isn't a novelty any more to see these out of context, because they are everywhere. there is saturation. everything has got so looted in a way. but things have happened with certain kinds of films that when oscar trophies — they are not so central to the culture as they used to be. and oscar—nominated picture 20 years ago everyone would know about. they would know lines from the movie and everything. that's definitely changed. but look, i still love the oscars, but make it better.- look, i still love the oscars, but make it better. yeah, make it better, make _ but make it better. yeah, make it better, make it _ but make it better. yeah, make it better, make it a _ but make it better. yeah, make it better, make it a little - it better, make

people think that hollywood is a free place but only what is strictly.the business and the other side is. to find hollywood is a call to dream anything which isn't true. probably in the. states the harming of relations between the u.s. and. russian personnel while. the. election. of september. seeing its.

even that has been leached out of hollywood. the rebuttal to this for a column i wrote decline of sex and romance is this is true but actually all the good stuff has migrated to television cable and streaming this was true in the late 19 nineties and early 2000's with the soprano breaking bad era there is all this happening on tv unless sure in peak tv the economics of the tv business have shifted to maximize the content that you can produce to keep people turning over a netflix and hbo subscriptions all the endless streaming services. as a consumer i don't think there is enough writing talent in hollywood to make them equal of the smaller number of shows from golden age tv such a slightly different economic pattern but this effect of going from the sopranos to breaking bad which is fine entertainment but trying to do the same things as the golden age shows with weaker writing i don't know i feel like it has happened a lot. that hotspot of creativity has dimmed in the last five years. >> the dimension of prestige tv to be increa

none of it is fake or hollywood-ized.lly accurate. >> acutely accurate and emotional for those who have traveled the same path through pain to healing. was it difficult to watch? >> yeah, but in a good way. we started our journeys similarly. she is so happy. i am so happy. why does that make me cry? i don't know. i think that is the best part. it shows joy. >> most of us in this lifestyle use a five gallon bucket. >> it made stars of nomads. >> it didn't feel like we were subjects to be filmed. we were people who had a story to tell. i am so happy for the filmmakers. and i am happy for us. i think it shows our heart. >> she has a condition which presents extra challenges when living in a car in a desert. >> i finally saw my life in a regular movie. i was like, my gosh, that is weird. and neat. people don't normally see the beauty of this life. they don't see the landscapes and the animals and the bit of a places that we get to camp. i love that the movie showed all of that beauty. that is why we do this. that is why i do

the little thing that hollywood is a very. literally the front. of the business on the other side is an. ordinary run of the border. you know. hollywood is the place and an idea to got the movie studios television we've got the music industry sometimes as we know it's also a place where there's a lot of propaganda. to whatever part of the the u.s. government is committed to you can be sure all that hollywood will be following it we're headed 12 months. out i defined hollywood they call it a dream manufacturer would say things true. but i think equally it's a propaganda factor.

from the center of hollywood prepare demick to the main los angeles train station mid pandemic a nice room though where this happened oh. oh oh oh oh that was this year's oscars best actress frances mcdormand who had the star role in the best picture of 2020 no man's land a tale of down and out americans living on the road 'd. and the also coast to. glow is 00 momenta round. it was directed by china born chloe's out the 1st asian woman to take home the best director award. this is for anyone. who had the faith and the courage to hold on to the goodness in themselves in a delayed intimate event in a socially distant space the winners were a diverse group far more than years past and the oscar goes to. take korean years union who took home the best supporting actress award. oh i'm allowed to thanks to my 2 boys who made me go out and work so. did our son. this is the reason that because mommy work so hard. also picking up a statuette the movie judas and the black messiah is supporting actor daniel kaluga who in his youthful way offered to wait for what moments including my mum but that

>> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live!"mp, and music from zoe wees. and now, jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hi, there. i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. you know, we do this show from hollywood in the state of california, where as of today any person over the age of 16 is eligible to get the covid vaccine. [ cheers and applause ] this is interesting. did you know the vaccine is only half as effective if you don't post about it on instagram? [ laughter ] if you're 16, tiktok. but you get the idea. [ laughter ] unfortunately, just over 1 in 5 americans say they will not get the vaccine. same number as dentists who don't recommend sugarless gum. [ laughter ] and another 12% say they're

the cinerama dome was a land mark movie palace and a true hollywood player since the day it opened ine domed movie palace cost $1 million to build and the motion picture cost upwards of $10 million to produce. >> reporter: blike so many othe movie houses it shut down last year. another casualty of the financial realities of the pandemic. >> the pandemic literally overnight, decimated the movie theater business. >> reporter: the media analyst paul -- >> it was so bleak that that people could not imagine theaters were shut down for a month, let alone a year. that moment changed the world for the movie theater industry and nobody saw it coming. >> reporter: and now the dome's owner said it will stay closed even after the pandemic. but, even if it is closed for good, that doesn't meanha gostr movie business may be getting ready to take off and soar to heights that no one thought possible. >> coming soon, to a brick and mortar theater near you. a flock of big movies. fighting for your attention. >> good morning aviators this is your captain speaking. today's exercise is dog fighting. >> tw

so here's what we know about hollywood's biggest night of the year so far.st big change is that it will take place at two locations — at the 0scars�* traditional home at the dolby theatre on hollywood boulevard and, for the first time, at la's spacious union station, which can meet social distancing requirements. obviously, we need people who are socially distant but you also have to do it in a way that is visually exciting, that feels like a big event. union station in los angeles, which opened in 1939, is an architectural wonder to many. it has a long connection with cinema. it has served as the backdrop to numerous pictures. sequences were shot there for the 2012 picture the dark knight rises and the station's custodians view it in the most magnificent of terms, definitely fit for an 0scars ceremony. people over the years have said that los angeles union station, was the most beautiful building, particularly the interiors, was the most beautiful building of any in los angeles and i think we are going to be able to prove that when the academy awards are pr

>> all right, zohreen shah there in hollywood.hing away from him. >> it was due. >> it was due, it was due, but chadwick boseman also -- >> is a legend. >> is a legend. we will always remember him. you know, i just think about his legacy, and what he leaves behind, so, all right, well, keep it here for much more oscars coverage ahead in the skinny. >>> now to the pandemic, and a big step forward when it comes to restoring international travel, fully-vaccinated americans will be able to travel to europe this summer. a top european official tells the "new york times." no timeline for resuming tourist travel is being given. discussions are more about how to make it happen. in the meantime, the cdc says about 5 million americans who have had their first dose of the vaccine have missed their window for the second dose, which is important because the second dose is necessary for full immunity. >>> now to the latest string of violent confrontations with police across the country. on the heels of the derek chauvin verdict, a 32-year-old b

what's the word there in hollywood this morning?reporter: chadwick boseman dominated the lead actor category throughout the awards season for that last incredible role in "ma rainey's black bottom." it was boseman's final film before he died of cancer, and hopkins did win a bafta in the category for his role in "the father." so this is the second academy award. hopkins' first came for playing hannibal lecter in "silence of the lambs." he just posted a message on instagram because he was not present at the ceremony. so let's take a listen. >> very grateful today, academy, and thank you. i want to pay tribute to chadwick boseman who was taken from us far too early, and again, thank you all very much. >> reporter: it was nice to hear from anthony hopkins because the academy accepted his award on his behalf at the ceremony. so kenneth and deirdre, so many changes. so many -- so many things to talk about this morning when it comes to the 93rd academy awards in 2021. >> jade hernandez with the big moments from the big night in hollywood.

even that has sort of been leached out of hollywood. i think the rebuttal to this i got a version of this for the coma wrote over the week and talk about the decline of and romance in the movies as this to be true of the movies but actually i'll the good stuff as migrated to television right? to cable and then streaming. i think this was definitely true in the late 1990s an early 2000's. he did have this a window, sopranos and bakingno bad era or a lot of serious creativity happening on tv. i am less sure about in this age of peak tv. the economics of the tv business have shifted to just maximizing the amount of content you can produce in order to keep people turning over their net licks and hbo subscriptions but all the endless streaming services. as a consumer of a lot of the stuff t, i do not think there's enough writing talent in hollywood to make any of these shows the equal of the smaller number of shows we now consider sort of golden age tv. it is a slightly different economic pattern. but there's a similar cultural effect going

brown >>> a talladega nail-biter as joey low gag know goes airborne over bubba watson at almost tw hollywood's biggestnight of th year we've got the highlights and history-making moments "early today" starts right now good monday morning to you i'm frances rivera over 94 million americans are now fully vaccinated against covid. and as the rush to recover from the virus continues, senator chuck schumer is telling hard hit restaurant owners that $28 billion from the american rescue plan will soon be available to them the website to apply for relief should be active within the next few weeks. and owners are advised to get documents ready now that show their losses from the pandemic a lot of reopening plans rely on americans getting vaccinated, according to a new nbc news poll, 57% of american adults say they have gotten the shot while 12% say they have not. and there is a big divide along party lines. 4% of democrats say they will never get thvaccine. that number jumps to 24% among republicans. nbc's sam brock joins us now with more on vaccine hesitancy sam, good morning. >> reporter: frances, go

she will become a major force in hollywood, that— a major force in hollywood, that is— a major forcebudget superhero movie. she is on the way to the big-time — movie. she is on the way to the big-time— big-time. talk briefly about one of the _ big-time. talk briefly about one of the other _ big-time. talk briefly about one of the other big - big-time. talk briefly about| one of the other big winners big-time. talk briefly about. one of the other big winners so far, the british actorfor judais the black messiah. he was one of the favourites, wasn't he?— was one of the favourites, wasn't he? absolutely. he -la ed wasn't he? absolutely. he played fred _ wasn't he? absolutely. he played fred hampton - wasn't he? absolutely. he played fred hampton thel played fred hampton the chairman of the illinois branch of the — chairman of the illinois branch of the black panther party who are skilled at out of 24. he is such— are skilled at out of 24. he is such a — are skilled at out of 24. he is such a powerful actor. he really— such a powerful actor. he really brings this character home _ really