Turning Right at Hollywood and Vine

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Roger L. Simon. Turning Right at Hollywood and Vine

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In fact, I no longer believed wholeheartedly in the themes of The Gardener and was apprehensive about how the movie would be interpreted and whether that interpretation would be identified with me. Although I have great empathy for the plight of poor illegal aliens like Carlos, the hero of the film, and always will, I had become a firm believer in secure national borders, including a fence, and an enforceable immigration system that treats all equally. Carlos’s story—one of an impoverished but noble Mexican put in the humiliating position, because he is not a citizen, of having to steal back his own stolen truck—could easily make The Gardener a rallying point for the extreme left of the immigration issue, for open borders or even for no border at all. It was a film La Raza could love.

And oddly enough, I would be the one most likely put in the position of defending it. Normally, screenwriting is a relatively anonymous—if occasionally high-paid—occupation, but my role as CEO of Pajamas Media, appearing frequently on conservative talk radio and cable TV, made me anything but. I was a natural target for gleeful liberal reporters who would be happy to nail me for hypocrisy in my current position or for making an obviously ambivalent defense of a movie I once wrote, a capital offense in Hollywood.

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