It's not just the tech bros – Hollywood is grovelling for Trump too

It’s hard being a liberal in Hollywood right now. New York magazine’s cover story last week, headlined the “The Cruel Kids' Table”, saw journalist Brock Coylar crashing the Trump inauguration parties and found “Conservatism – as a cultural force, not just a political condition – back in a real way for the first time since the 1980s”. That’s the audience right now.” open image in gallery Selena Gomez’s recent Instagram story about immigration has been met with backlash The Academy Awards should be fun, but many people point to “liberal pearl-clutching speeches” of the recent events being a buzzkill and the viewing figures have been dwindling at an alarming rate. “It’s hard to call Republicans loathsome racists when they have been far more consistently supportive of Jews facing this global wave of antisemitism.” Hollywood is an adaptable place. Meanwhile Michael J Fox chased the almighty dollar in the Secret of my Success, Michael Douglas proclaimed “greed is good” in Wall Street, Ackroyd and Murphy cleaned up in Trading Places, Paul Newman and Tom Cruise hustled in The Color of Money… and earnest screenwriters asking what happened to all those left-wing conspiracy movies of the 1970s like All the President’s Men, Chinatown and Network were told, forget it kid, no one wants that stuff anymore.