Ron Howard is the best director in Hollywood and the most unrecognized and underappreciated Director. I think it is scandulous that he doesn't get the recognition he deserves.

Obviously Mr. Ricardo Maxwell has also been duped by Hollywood's plethora of films and TV shows that depict Italian-Americas as gangsters. This perception was prevelant in the decades before Italian actors actually even were allowed to 'portray' gangsters. Jewish actors ,i.e. Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, were employed to subvert the American consiousness about Italians.
Now if anyone believes that the todays American gansters (and have been for the last 3 decades) are not African Americans and Hispanics, they must be living in Iceland or glued to the tube watching the next Sopranos episode of dreck!
I live in New York City my friend, check out the daily police blotters in cities like Detroit, Washington,D.C., Houston or any big urban city and then welcome to 'reality;.

The African-American gangsta Rappers have also had a huge impact on our society and children for more than 3 decades, which is also promoted by the 'velvet Mafia' in Hollywood!
Even the New York Times actually reviews these 'Gansta' Rappers CD's and live shows!
Imagine if an Irishman, Italian, Jew or Muslim were making CD's with lyrics that were misogynist,homophobic and spewed out rants about Jews, Italians or for that fact whites in general and put guns, drugs, murder and the exploitation of their young woman on a pedestal.

Ricardo Maxwell, apparently you've never heard of Frank Lucas, an African-American drug dealer from the 1970s, who is the subject of "American Gangsters."

I always feel stupider after reading about Hollywood "news".

Recardo Maxwell said:
"To place a black man in the role of classic American gangster, when all of America knows that they are usually immigrants (Italian, Irish, Jewish), is typical of Hollywood and the "entertainment" industry. After all, we must have at least one of each minority in every film and TV show. While the twist to this plot might be refreshing (How many more Italian gangster movies can we take?), it is obviously not based on reality."

I agree with everything you said until this. This was based on a true story, and the gangster was in fact a black man who went against the prevailing crime families. Dispite the discrepancies from the real life version, this was a very good movie.

What the hell? There are people that expect a fictional movie to be factual? Just how stupid has our culture become?

If the Hollywood movies that are selected to win the Oscar's are supposed to be true and accurated, how do you explain Al Gore winning for his fictional documentary? It's entertainment, not real life to be taken seriously.

Yep, We, the people, are just on the edge of our seats waiting with baited breath to get to the bottom of this mess, afterall, hollywood is important, right?
As has already been mentioned above, you have the media/journalists, who no longer have the trust of the American people because WE KNOW they're biased, WE KNOW they lie, and then you have a crop of, generally under-educated and under-intelligent, folks who sit around just waiting to hear what hollywood has to say... but the vast majority of the American public has time and again made it clear to the factually challenged socialists in hollywood that 1)We aren't buying what you're selling 2) YOU ARE NOT IMPORTANT TO US, YOU ARE ENTERTAINMENT, pure and simple, and 3) We don't particularly care about you - see 2. All of you, actors, directors et al are very easily replaced in our lives.

Keep having your pathetic little marathon pat each other on the back sessions extolling your greatness, afterall, that is what you do best, and we'll keep ignoring you and not watching you fawn all over each other.

I guess when hollywood figures out they're the modern equivalent of the court jester we may actually start seeing something worth seeing and hearing a whole lot less of stupid people instructing us how to live. Personally, I'm paid to think for a living and, well, hollywood you aren't.

YAWN !!!!!!!!!!!

Hey KC, 9/11 keeps lingering because the so called msm reporters refuse to report the facts and irregularities of that day. I'd be questioning things too when crash sites have no wreckage or video is confiscated by the FBI minutes after the crashes. Our gov't brings it on themselves hiding evidence that would either exonerate or indict them in a minute.

Even PBS 'documentaries' are filled with innuendo and other beliefs that might not be supported by facts. To start a firestorm two that cannot really stand true scientific scrutiny are evolution and global temperature change. You can find anecdotal evidence galore, but where are the true link creatures? And look at the temperature of Alaska over the last 100 years. If you discount Pacific Water warming trends that ebb and flow you will see the average temperature is not rising with any dramatic increase if at all.

So, when Hollywood which has to sensationalize everything has a true story they can resist punching it up, or if the character is more inline with their beliefs then they will sand down the rough edges so to speak.

The only thing that gets smeared in Hollywood is the United States of America. The American People don't care about what Hollywood 'celebrities" say and do anymore. Hollywood has proven itself to be full of drug-addled nutcases. What comes out of Hollywood is nonsense.

And "Inconvenient Truth" is a documentary, right? One thing for sure this time around, not a single Oscar juror read the actual IPCC report. Gore's movie is science fiction, "Water World 2".