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[Brian Vita]

Donna Halper wrote:

>
> Oh Brian, you're joking, right?  One of the oldest stereotypes on the 
> planet is that Hollywood is dominated by Jews.  Au contraire.  For one 
> thing, most of the studios are owned by overseas concerns which have 
> few if any Jews on their boards.  .  And while Spielberg or Streisand 
> may be identifiably Jewish, these days, Hollywood is a pretty diverse 
> place where there are just as many non-Jews-- if we were to start 
> naming major directors, I think we'd have as large a number of 
> gentiles in fact.   But your two Orthodox Jews had a point-- there are 
> not too many highly religious people (whether it's Orthodox Jews or 
> Evangelical Christians) working in Hollywood.  It's a pretty secular 
> place, based on what I've seen...  

While I can't address the entire entertainment industry, after spending 
my entire adult life in the movie industry, I think that I can 
adequately address this.  The post was not a critique or part of some 
conspiracy theory and was not in any way meant to be anti-semitic; it 
was simply an observation.

When I started in the exhibition industry 20+ years ago, it was 
predominantly Jewish.  Whether this was by design or coincidence, I 
don't know.  The upper management of Boston's primary circuit, Sack 
Theaters, was entirely Jewish; Sack, Frieberg, Goldwater, et al.  The 
other predominant chain, Redstone (nee Rheinstein) was also Jewish.  
Above the entry level in the distribution area, was liberally sprinkled 
with Horowitzes, Weinsteins, Weisbergs, etc.

I don't think that there was any conspiracy or sinister plot to control 
the industry.  The point that I was making was that the entertainment 
industry was one of the (possibly few) places where anti-semitism was 
not a problem.

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