![]() ![]() There are galleries dedicated to the work of Spike Lee, Hiyao Miyazki and Pedro Almodovar and others, all highly deserving. Yet, the museum’s directors made a deliberate decision to downplay the Jewish connection to the film industry in an effort to be “inclusive” (i.e., politically correct or “woke”). The building itself is named for Cheryl and Haim Saban, who donated $50 million. It was built at a cost of $484 million, much of it raised from Jews, including the Steven Spielberg family, the Tisches, Barbra Streisand and David Geffen. The immense, newly opened Academy Museum of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, created to display the history of moving pictures, has shamelessly chosen to omit Hollywood’s pioneer movie studios from its inaugural exhibit. These men are now dead, buried and on track to oblivion. Scott Fitzgerald, by employing them as scriptwriters or turning their novels into films. They also greatly increased the fame and fortune of many American writers, including Pearl S, Buck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and F. Studio bosses provided jobs for thousands upon thousands of people of diverse talents and trades, making considerable economic and social contributions to America and the world. Many created films of cultural or educational merit that celebrated the inspirational and spiritual American values. Yet, for all their flaws, the Jewish pioneers used their Jewish heads along with hard work to create a huge industry spun mostly out of dreams and moxie. Those who ran them often operated in a man’s pre- #MeToo, pre-woke world. Studios were not synagogues (or churches) and studio heads were not selfless saints. ![]() It was therefore open to Jews and other marginalized people, who took the opportunity and built it into the vast global phenomenon it now is. Jews didn’t own and run all the studios but they were a very, if not the most, significant part of the new industry, one that was originally disdained as salacious and lowlife by the American establishment. ![]() The major ones founded and run by Jews were Universal, Paramount, MGM, Warner Brothers and Columbia. One comes from Los Angeles, the very place Jews made into a thriving metropolis by creating film factories. Although history has acclimated Jews to exile, exclusion and erasure, there is a strong attempt in America to rewrite history. ![]()
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