Editor-In-Chief Of Breitbart's Big Hollywood Hates LA, Tells Paul Haggis To Go To Hell, Leaves Town

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He has a point but only half of the bigger point.

If you live in LA, you have to love it and hate it or there's something wrong with you. It is the American ghetto and the people are brainwashed. But I like hanging out with people talking about the ghetto and how everyone is brainwashed.

Oh, and I'd like to tell your wife, I'm sorry about robbing you at gun point. It was nothing personal. I just needed to pay my rent.

The City of Los Angeles is by far - by FAR - one of the safest big cities in America and our crime rate is currently at 40 year lows.  I was going to write to this guy, "sorry you couldn't make LA work," but he didn't factually live in LA.  To paraphrase Gladys Knight, "Monterey Park proved too much for the man..." (Pips chime in: "...too MUCH for the MAN...")   

It cannot within any bounds of reason be denied, regardless of or perhaps because of its many faults and excesses, that this is one HELLUVA city.

If you'd ever been to the mountains of North Carolina, then you would understand why he's giving L.A. the big kiss-off.

Hell, any part of North Carolina for that matter.

I suspect his quality of life was more important than career advancement within a discriminatory, soul-crushing industry.

Besides, lots of entertainment people live and work quite comfortably outside the confines of Los Angeles.

If the economy weren't so shitty I'd be heading to NC myself.

Which come to think of it, makes his move all the more gutsy.

A friend of mine who lived in NYC for over a decade (including the early 80's) recently told me that Los Angeles is a much more difficult place to live. I'm here and I'm not leaving in the near future, but I have to agree that this place can be so soul-crushing at times. I've been elsewhere, so I'm not going to stay forever either. LA is a place you should only move to with a purpose. Unless you have a lot of money, you can't really buffer yourself from the crime and litter and phony-ness. 

I find it a bit immature when people who live here get so pro-LA when our public trans is paltry, we are the U.S.'s hub of gangs and the public high schools have some of the nation's highest drop-out rates. Think of all of the inept and corrupt city gov. Come on. Please don't celebrate that! It *could* be a great city, but it is not.

What we *do* have going for us is that this city attracts so many different kinds of people. Really interesting things come together here. The city itself, I'm not sorry to say, is not so great.

Well, at least he's honest. . . but of course, in this superficial, pseudo-metropolis, honesty is condemned, and the superficial, shallow, and phony is revered. 
It is a fascist, schizophrenic ghetto, with zombie-like citizens, all attached to mobile devices, not thinking, all simply going with 'the flow.'
As someone once said, Los Angeles is where people go to DIE. 

Fascism is having to sort your trash?  I thought it had something to do with  killing 3,200 political opponents, imprisoning up to 80,000, and torturing up to 30,000 including the future president of the country?

reference Pinochet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

I was once robbed at gunpoint in the suburban and seemingly safe town of Mesa, Arizona, filled with Mormons and other white people.    If Haggis wanted to feel "safe," he could have left Monterey Park and lived in Burbank or Studio City or South Pasadena or any other nice community around here.  We won't miss him!

In his defense just from a human standpoint:  The moment anyone gets robbed at gunpoint *NO TOWN* looks good anymore.

Not in his defense:  You know what?  If there are three murders on your block and your wife gets robbed at gunpoint?  I think you would make the simple effort of moving "Somewhere else in the city" instead of the extreme of "Moving to another city"  You picked that neighborhood for one reason or another (financial reasons or otherwise), and one would think after the "second killing on that block"...you would be on Craigslist looking for that little old lady who has no idea how to price her home for a rental.  :)

The other day I went to an audition and the guy who auditioned me said "So you have some background I imagined this being a little...you know Precious like..someone white being married to a black woman.  You know, you think this man is married to a white woman and it turns out she is a little overweight and black.  You know what I mean?"

...you know...how do you tell someone: 

1) That was not what the movie Precious was about.
2) You should meet my husband.  His name is Hans.  And no, he is not a black guy named Hans.  

So I guess in terms of how this town makes movies...yes.  *I know what you mean* as it is rare to never see a couple like me and my husband married for twenty years represented on film unless it is for comic relief.  But hey.  No matter how "Strange" your M.O is?  I'm glad what I'm reading is not comic relief.  It's just me in the hospital with my memory erased because this is Science Fiction based.  I'm good.  "Think Gabby never being married to a white affluent doctor.  Got it. I'm an actor in LA.  I will just "Pretend this M.O. for you even though I completely don't agree with it.  Thank you for the audition."  :)

I did it with my regular voice, A Jamaican accent then an English Accent.  

I love this town just for the sheer weirdness of it all. I dig this town and larger metro areas because wonderful stories come from it.  The people in all of their faults.  As though you cannot find hypocrisy and shallowness in Philadelphia or Chicago?

I dig Los Angeles.  People quietly going about their business with shorts on while fires blare in the hills in the summer. The non plussed reaction of tremors at a Hollywood Red Carpet.  The hopefulness still in the air of the costume characters on Hollywood Blvd. landing something (possible a Jimmy Kimmel spot).  Seeing someone sleeping on the star of Zasu Pitts.  A wonderful actress that only people like me still remember. 

And I have only been here two years via San Francisco via Chicago.  And this is coming from someone who *lived in San Francisco for ten years talking about weirdness*  I dig you L.A.  I probably would have dug that cat too if only he didn't move away.  :)

I hope the man find happiness wherever he and his lady moved to. Something smaller, less smoggy and less "Artificial" for them.  Every large town has its problems.  I hope he found a smaller junket as some of us who love living urbanely call it "Close to a port"  or "Only 45 minutes from Broadway".

From a Native-LA Boi to you....

Bless You, ma'am.  0:>)=

Harry, you are kidding? But I guess from the left side everything looks to be on the right. Oh, well.

"the unbelievably phony narrative created by the Leftist media and Hollywood about the people who live here,"

I didn't know LA had anything approaching "Leftist Media" (other than KPFK).

But I suppose once you've "run off the rails, through the bushes, and over the cliff" everything looks "Leftist".

I just wanted to point out that your comment is the stupidest thing I've ever read on this site.

and Steve Martin would have you think that all of the street signs intervene in your fate!  Fuck that guy!  Only one street sign has EVER talked to me, and all it said was "Turn left here".  Leftist assholes!

Sounds to me like he came out to "live the Hollywood Make It Big Dream", failed miserably and he's pissed off at everyone over his failure...good riddance Nolte, go back to North Carolina, where he can live in rejected hipster isolation and make sport over dissing L.A....we don't need you here.

Not to defend the guy (I have no time for right-wingers like Breitbart and his ilk), but right before your very selective quotation he said "To say we’ve enjoyed our time in Los Angeles would be an understatement. Adventure we sought and adventure we received."  Doesn't sound like he was as much of a hater as you're trying to make him out to be.

It ain't me babe. Promise. He calls himself a hater in the last line of his post. "Hate the city, already miss the people, and Paul Haggis can go to Hell." Pretty clear. The man is not a fan.

good riddance, whiner!

Yet they lived here for 8 years. Go figure.

See ya!