I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie there and I've never been there for working reasons. The only reason to go there is for silly awards shows.
If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.