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Peggy Noonan On Hollywood’s Problems

Posted by Doug on March 9th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Peggy Noonan has penned a very interesting piece for the Wall Street Journal today entitled “Boy in a Bubble – What George Clooney doesn’t know about life”. It is quite possibly one of the most sympathetic and generous readings of Hollywood’s current state of woe that I’ve yet seen. From her article:

But viewership [...]

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