Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian?
Michael MedvedThis same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.
Michael MedvedAn important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive.
Michael MedvedIf we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait another day to scale back our own private consumption of television.
Michael MedvedUnfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about the world from the images on movie and TV screens. The true power of the media is the ability to redefine reality, to alter our expectations about what constitutes normal life. TV and the movies have abused that power by advancing the notion that wholesome, ordinary happiness is impossible.
Michael Medved