What is Hollywood?

Terence O'Rourke on the emotional center of western history being real estate, not gunfights.

“If Hollywood wanted to capture the emotional center of western history, its movies would have been about real estate. John Wayne would have been neither a gunfighter nor a sheriff, but a surveyor, spectator, or claims lawyer.”

Guy Oseary distributed 400 BlackBerry units to Hollywood influencers before mainstream adoption, using hardware gifting as a deliberate network-building strategy.

“I was the first guy from Hollywood to even know what the hell Blackberries were.”

Hollywood studios can now produce films at one-third the previous cost using AI, according to Gal Gadot.

“We are now able to make films for 1/3 the price.”

One proposed AI political strategy skips lobbying politicians entirely, instead directing money straight to displaced workers and communities such as creatives and Hollywood unions.

“What he says is AI companies need to immediately go into towns and cities that are impacted by job losses and just start spreading money around. He's saying Bill build on programs that help everyday people, people like creatives, Hollywood unions, people who feel like they're in immediate danger of being displaced by AI. Just give them money. Buy them off.”