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Are Cops Allowed to Be the Good Guys Yet?

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Hollywood spent decades serving up the flawed-but-heroic big-city cop to cinephiles like me. The police officer was our modern-day cowboy, an all-American icon—the good guy fighting a corrupt system and his own demons to get the bad guy. We all used to root for the selfless hero holding the thin blue line between citizens and violent chaos.

Celebs Rally Against “Book Bans” But Ignore Real Censorship

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Hollywood has been mostly silent on the wave of censorship washing over the culture. Consider the following examples: The French Connection,” an Oscar-winning classic, got snipped to remove an offensive word; books by Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming got a sensitivity reader “upgrade”; and films and TV shows with problematic content have been erased in the public arena.