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Michael Cieply: When The Dust Settles, It Might Be Time For A Hollywood Political Reboot
When the Presidential campaign mess finally resolves, Hollywood might want to rethink its current political habits.
Sometime in the 1970s, the contemporary, progressive connection took root with what they used to call, in the Warren Beatty/Gary Hart era, “Hollytics.” Policy talk and personalities circulated on kind a loose cocktail party circuit in which Hollywood’s open checkbook played an increasing role. By the early1990s, when journalist Ron Brownstein mapped the interface in a book, The Power and the Glitter, the prevailing attitude—never mind those conservative counter-players in the Wednesday Morning Club—was summed up by a familiar invitation to conversational confidence, “ We’re all Democrats here.” But Ari Emanuel, a true political sophisticate, was clearly onto something when he noted in Aspen that donors were suddenly shifting their sights from the presidency to House and Senate races.
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