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This book serves to collect and furnish some of the available evidence which points toward the answers to two fundamental questions about the American motion picture industry: (1) Is the control exercised by the Hollywood control group reflected in the kinds and content of the motion pictures produced and released? and (2) Do American movies adequately reflect the nation's multi-cultural diversity or do they reflect a consistent pattern of bias in favor of those who control Hollywood and against those who do not control Hollywood? Because of the inherent difficulties in assembling an objective panel and reviewing enough movies that have been produced and released over a sufficient period of time to constitute an adequate sampling of negative and positive portrayals of various ethnic, religious, racial, gender, sexual preference and cultural groups in American motion pictures this report is based on a different approach and a less formal study of the above questions. Hopefully this effort will stimulate interest in this overall approach to the study of patterns of bias in motion picture content and lead to further studies using more formal methodologies.

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(1992) was " . . . a satire about a whole mind-set, about the anything-goes greed of the 1980s, when decent American values were replaced by the cold cynicism of management experts . . . " The movie argued that " . . . our political process has been debased . . . (and the film showed) . . . the hazards of choosing a political candidate on the basis of his ability to make us feel comfortable." Finally, in 1992, made a statement about the " . . . importance of dreamers with courage enough to go against the mainstream (and about) . . . how fear of the unknown impoverishes society."

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In 1966, Buster Keaton, died of cancer. He had " . . . entered a psychiatric clinic . . . " in 1937, and according to Kenneth Anger, he was " . . . unhinged by the combined traumas of the arrival of sound, loss of artistic control of his films, marital problems and drink." He recovered, continued to do some work in film and did not die until 1966, " . . . of cancer." Also, in 1966, actor Jonathan Hale, who appeared in , committed suicide. According to Anger, he " . . . shot himself in his cottage (at the Motion Picture Country House at Woodland Hills, California) on March 2, 1966; the pistol was found next to his body. Attendants said he had been depressed for some time."

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Also, in 1960, actress Dana Barrymore " . . . depressed . . . " over her failing career was found by her maid " . . . face down on the bed . . . a trio of empty liquor bottles in the kitchen and an assortment of sedatives in a nearby cabinet . . . the coroner ruled out suicide or foul play . . . " although Tennessee Williams " . . . always insisted--contrary to official reports--that Diana had 'blood streaming out of her mouth and that there was a heavy marble ashtray shattered against the wall and other evidence of struggle and violence".

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The following year, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer was " . . . shot to death in a dope burn (according to Kenneth Anger), whereas Katz reports he was " . . . shot in January of 1959 in a drinking brawl with a former hunting-venture partner over a $50 debt. The slaying was ruled 'justifiable homicide." Also, in 1959, actor George Reeves, who appeared in , " . . . shot himself in the head . . . " at age 45. That same year, actor Grant Withers " . . . died of an overdose of sleeping pills (at age 55), leaving a suicide note behind." As Kenneth Anger reports, Withers' career () had supposedly "fizzled out".

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In 1963, actor Pedro Armendariz, who appeared in was admitted to the UCLA Medical Center on June 18, 1963. "He had learned that he had lymph cancer. He " . . . shot himself in the hospital with a gun he had smuggled in." Armendariz had also worked on , the film about Genghis Khan, starring John Wayne, " . . . which was shot on location in Nevada near the site of an atomic bomb test. Its director, Dick Powell, and two of its stars, Wayne, and Agnes Moorehead, died of lung cancer; the female lead, Susan Hayward, died from a brain tumor." That same year, actor Nick Adams, who was " . . . nominated for an Oscar as best supporting actor in (1963) . . . " died from " . . . an overdose of drugs he was taking for a nervous disorder."