Trump Wins When Oscar Winners Stay Silent
Right now it does matter a lot whether actors can find the right words.
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All authoritarian leaders crave the adoration of big cultural figures. That was true when Virgil praised the Emperor Augustus in his poems, and it was still true when Mr. Trump took over the Kennedy Center, renamed it for himself and then — after artists refused to perform there — decided to shut it down. The president rarely seems more personally aggrieved and vengeful than when a celebrity, whether it’s Rosie O’Donnell or Bad Bunny, snubs or insults him. When I did research for “The Director,” my novel about the German film industry under Nazi rule, I was surprised to see how focused Adolf Hitler and his propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, were on winning over the luminaries of German film — as long as they were not Jews, of course — because they knew very well that the conduct of these world-famous people would send a signal across the globe.
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