today’s ” AR-online” again AR-Online recent issues: July 1999 June 1999 May 1999 April 1999 March 1999 February 1999 January 1999 December 1998 November 1998 October 1998 September 1998 August 1998 July 1998 Alphabetical index (text) December 7, 1994 A Funny Thing Happenedby Doug Collins A FUNNY thing happened on the way to the movies the other day. A British reporter in Hollywood raised international dust by writing about Jewish control of Tinsel Town.
His name is William Cash and his story was published in The Spectator , a major magazine published in London. The article and the reaction to it even warranted a page in the Globe and Mail , which usually steers away from such delicate stuff. The Globe ‘s headline was ‘Why Hollywood is seeing stars.” This space has dealt with the same subject, but my meanderings were wimpish compared with what this fellow Cash had to say.
If my column had been anything like his I would probably have been in the clink by now. The story began with a group portrait of some powerful people in New York’s Vanity Fair magazine, which asked: “What have these men got in common?’ It showed 16 bosses including Steven Spielberg , the Schindler’s List man. And Vanity Fair answered its own question by stating that this was the New Establishment – leaders of the computer, entertainment and communication industries in America.
The New Establishment, said the magazine, had replaced the Old Establishment. But Cash said that that didn’t tell the whole story. He pointed out that the New Establishment was predominantly Jewish, whereas the Old Establishment had been predominantly WASP. And he quoted Auberon Waugh, a waspish writer in more ways than one, who had called Hollywood bosses the Titans of Tripe.
Cash went on to say that the New Establishment was ‘a white sock meritocracy’ (white socks are supposedly popular in the film industry), and that it ran a network that kept WASPS out. The new boys, his article suggested, were clannish and vulgar, and also “talented negotiators”. He described a WASP would-be producer who had gold chains on his wrist and a chunky Star of David round his neck. Asked why he dressed like that, the man replied: “I’m trying to look Jewish.’
Cash said the New York Times was the official mouthpiece for U.S. Jews, and that ‘every major studio head is Jewish today, just as they were 60 years ago. It was a shot heard round the world. The Times’ story was headed “Stereotype of Jews is Revived”. “Few in Hollywood can recall such an anti-Semitic article in a major publication,” it huffed. Others said the piece was “a classic portrayal of Jews that goes