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07/16/2007: "Hollywood is irrelevant hype"

To further the business goals of the "entertainment industry," the promoters have created a cult of celebrity around the participants in the movie business to cement the public's opinion that these people
are more important than, say, novelists or game designers. Their complex marketing machine grinds away, and the public is made to believe that Hollywood is the center of the entertainment universe.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2156404,00.asp