Bally's Blurty

Queen Of Hollywood
Time for a thought.

I don't know if this is an original thought or not, but: Hollywood is a front for the Catholic Church.

There's the revered cliché that, if you have sex in a Hollywood horror film, you'll be killed (except for that fun one where you'd only be offed if you hadn't had sex). The thought first struck me, though, off the back of the recent film Four Christmases (IMDb entry here). You might remember it, although it was pretty forgettable.

The lead couple, Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, were, in one scene, at a counselling session (I think). There were two other couples present and the subject of having children came up. The two other couples wanted to have children, but Reese and Vince didn't. The other couples looked at them like they were either aliens, or something they'd just scraped off their shoes.

DIGRESSION ALERT: Or aliens they'd just scraped off their shoes.

In other words, they were portrayed as being weird. Unusual. Not, y'know, modern people who have made a choice about their lives. By the end of the film, of course, they've seen the "error" of their ways and had a child... just like the Catholic Church would have wanted them to do.

If any of you, dear window-owning readers, have any evidence I can throw on the (admittedly scant up to press) pile, it would be gratefully received.

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