We are witnessing Hollywood’s long-overdue moral reckoning

We are witnessing Hollywood’s long-overdue moral reckoning

In 2006, while accepting the Best Supporting Actor award for Syriana, George Clooney gave a speech that instantly became such shorthand for celebrity smugness that South Park based an entire episode around making fun of it. “We are a little bit out of touch in Hollywood every once in a while, I think. It’s probably a good thing,” Clooney said. “We’re the ones who talked about AIDS when it was just being whispered, and we talked about civil rights when it wasn’t really popular… This academy, th…

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