COMMUNICATION:
Media, Arts, & Society | March 28, 1994
ENTERTAINMENT
AND
SUBSTANCE
An
Unpublished Letter to
Calendar
Letters, in Los Angeles Times
This is in regard to your thought-provoking
article "Getting Serious?"
Entertainment or substance? The perennial
Hollywood dilemma.
According to Sam Spiegel, producer of three
Oscar®-winning -- and enormously successful -- Best Pictures
(On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai,
and Lawrence of Arabia): "The best motion pictures are
those which reach you as entertainment and, by the time you
leave, have provoked thoughts. A picture that provokes no
thoughts is usually not well conceived and does not entertain
one anyway."
Ahh, entertainment and substance. The
perennial Hollywood magic!
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