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By Ed Driscoll · January 14, 2005 11:05 AM · Hollywood, Interrupted

If you've noticed the "Hollywood, Interrupted" category we created for our posts about, you know, modern Hollywood, it comes from the title of the book written co-written by Andrew Breitbart, whom Kathryn Jean Lopez has a great interview with today:

NRO: We all know about Alec Baldwin's false promises to move and the Canada-exile talk and the like from your coast — people wanting to flee rather than live in a land with George W. Bush as president. How much of that is real? Do they really hate Bush, or is it just one of the things the cool kids do?

Breitbart: They truly hate Bush, and, for the most part, few can draw a distinction between that which they politically hate about him and the policies that enamored them with Clinton.

It is a very emotional situation from a very emotional group of people. These are not the type of people you would want next to you in a bunker during war. That said: These are the people more than some of us don't mind watching partially nude on pay cable. So we must somehow learn to live with one another again.

NRO: So, how many non-Bush haters are there? Is it your feeling that there are more conservative types (maybe not NR subscribers, but people who basically want what we want, etc., voted for Bush) than we'll ever know in Hollywood?

Breitbart: To my surprise I am finding that there are a lot more non-liberals in Hollywood than I had once suspected. It's just that they live in the closet. Until things change I still can't recommend they come out either.

Conservatives exist in the closet in Hollywood because they know the nature of hiring out here. People hire people they are comfortable with. And most liberals in Hollywood detest conservatives.

Hollywood produces at least two blacklist-era inspired films a year, and it is a staple on serial television. My father-in-law, who was, in fact blacklisted in the '50s, was just on the Jerry Bruckheimer series, "Cold Case", playing, what else?, a blacklisted writer.

Yet the lesson of not punishing those with whom you hold political differences is lost on the very people who insist it is the most important message of our time.

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