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In “Hollywood’s yellow streak,” Ron Falzone neglects the more significant issue concerning “The Passion of the Christ” and “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Although it is true that in the past Hollywood has nominated and awarded any number of mediocrities, it rings a bit hollow to argue that these two latest mediocrities were not considered because they are “controversial.” Michael Moore’s film hardly ranks as a movie at all. It is a sometimes entertaining showcase for a political comedian, but in many ways a clumsy film. Mel Gibson’s film has been pretty much universally panned by critics who saw it as a boring, lachrymose exercise in religious bathos.
Neither of these films deserves on any basis to be nominated, Hollywood’s self-interest or no.
