What most people don’t realize is the Hollywood product has become globalized. The domestic market accounts now for only about 30 percent of the take from box office, DVDs and other revenue sources including TV. The global market doesn’t care about dialogue, nuance, irony or any of the other qualities that once made you like movies. They are geared for the teenage market. This means explosions, car chases and bodacious babes. And also anti-Americanism. Films reflect the view foreigners have of the United States. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t drag in that 70 percent. The Oscars are a tribal rite for Hollywood, which has always based itself on a culture of self congratulation. This is why nepotism and brown-nosing are so endemic. Also why hostility toward the world beyond Hollywood is so prevalent. The Roman Polanski case perfectly demonstrates the schism. The good thing is the digital revolution will gradually at first and then rapidly erase Hollywood’s role in the culture.