The WSJ has a story about a singer-songwriter who performs his big conservative hit song under a pseudonym with his face obscured by big shades and a Coors cap. His problem: he's also a Hollywood screenwriter.
"His dilemma is the dilemma of countless people in my life," says Andrew Breitbart, the conservative columnist and provocateur who runs a website, Big Hollywood, devoted to airing conservative grievances about Los Angeles. "You can survive here as a conservative, but it takes guile."
One person stunned to hear of Mr. Kahn's double life as a tea-party troubadour is top Hollywood record producer and Grammy Award-winner Walter Afanasieff. The two have worked on projects for years and are now midway through writing and producing an album for a young singer. "And I'm just finding out about this now? Oh my God, I'm getting chills hearing it," Mr. Afanasieff says, when informed of his friend's sideline. "I mean, he's a member of a huge, Democratic, liberal organization called the Los Angeles entertainment business." After digesting the news, he adds, "It's very wise he's going incognito." * * *
[Kahn] hates what he sees as Hollywood's core hypocrisy: "how it benefits so much from capitalism and bashes it at the same time."
I've explained that "hypocrisy" as artists' resentment of the capitalists who pay them.
Maybe someday they'll make a movie about a songwriter who bucked powerful forces of close-mindedness as he struggled to express his belief in freedom. Or maybe not.
Meanwhile, Kahn's colleagues are bashing capitalists at Cannes.
As someone who has lived in Los Angeles for over 9 years, this is not a surprise. It's really shocking how narrow-minded supposed liberals can be in their political views.
Posted by: Joseph Marchelewski | May 18, 2010 at 02:46 PM