Sure, I admit to knowing some liberal intellectuals CarolC. Quite a few more if you use the term "intellectuals" very loosely. I know it's uncomfortable to have one's views vaguely associated with a trend, but get over it. Or don't, and deny that you've ever noticed any such thing as a liberal, or a liberal intellectual. Oh, you already did, okay. I think I've heard of it, though. There's where we disagree, apparently.

I've heard all kinds of things. I've heard people say they wouldn't watch Seinfeld because it was Jewish propaganda. I've heard people ask if Rosh Hashanah was the Jewish "Easter". (Yes, I said, it is, and Tupac Shakur is the Jewish St. Patrick.)

   As for Hollywood I think there's a lot of truth that Jewish people have made big contributions to it. One reason is that Jews were able to get into the business when nobody else saw the potential of it, and another is that Jews have had to have a portable sense of of culture, and could tell cultural stories, when other people couldn't see there were cultural stories to be told. (They just thought things were the way they were.) People can call it a conspiracy if they want, but I usually call it people being who they are, doing their work.