Nikki Finke, the self-appointed femme-sherrif of Hollywood blogging was written about in this month’s Elle Magazine. (BOPsy links to her website on our Links page in case you haven’t noticed already.)

Her column in LA Weekly and on her website are more about the inner-workings than about celebs – she says in the article:

“I always felt there was something missing in showbiz coverage—what I call the culture of the moguls and the culture of the agents and just the inner workings of interconnected Hollywood”

Well duh Nikki, don’t you read BOPsy daily and get the real scoop on anything that really matters? But we don’t have any “Womyn” on our staff and she states that that is what gives her the inside edge:

Look, I’m not powerful, and no one is scared of me. But here’s why I think women make the best reporters in Hollywood. It’s such a testosterone-fest out here, such the preserve of alpha males, that when you have a male reporter interviewing a male mogul, it’s basically swinging dicks aimed at each other. What the Hollywood guys like and respect is smart. They like a sense of humor. And they like women. Actually, being a woman and being Jewish helps. It’s one of the great jokes out here that gentiles are handicapped when it comes to Hollywood. They can learn the Yiddish words. But they’ll never have that, “Oh, I get it.” So best of all for them is a smart, funny, Jewish woman.
Frankly, there’s a part of me that looks down on Hollywood because of the way I was raised—I mean, I went to a finishing school and then Wellesley. I’m not awed by money and power. How do I put this? I consider Hollywood money totally nouveau.

Finke’s recent headlines read very different to most in that hers take a moralistic stance:

I Know What You Did Last Summer, Again

Moonves Should Pull the Plug on Kid Nation

Jim Carrey succumbs to voodoo economics

Well, what’s the difference between Nikki Finke’s articles and the viewpoint we take here at BOPsy – hers is moralistic and pro-woman. BOPsy’s isn’t pro-anything but ourselves and good films. And violent films can be good. Actually, some violent films can be great. And we don’t necessarily espouse casting women in a lead role if the movie isn’t going to be good and/or make money. She does – she has a bone to pick. But so what, its her god-given right to think that – she goes on to say in the article:

“All moguls are morons. I can’t believe what they do on an almost daily basis. I approach this town from the point of view of “You’re all making terrible mistakes.” The content is terrible. The process is tainted. It’s an accident, almost, when a movie is good and comes in under budget. Everyone in Hollywood is part of a very broken system….. I waged a campaign this year against horribly violent horror movies and especially torture porn. I really shamed the Hollywood execs making money on these movies. I do believe that no Hollywood player should earn a dime from a film he’s ashamed to show in his own home.”

I agree with the fact that most films that go over-budget are the faults of spineless execs, but I don’t think that execs should make movies that can only be shown in their homes to their families. This town and industry was founded by assimilated Jewish entrepeneurs who gave the American public what it wanted and nothing more or less. If they made movies for themselves, they would have made a Schindler’s List prior to 1994 and not waited 50 years to make that movie…

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