John Nolte at Breitbart pointed out on Wednesday that the Hollywood trade magazine Variety attacked director Ron Howard — aka the beloved actor who played Opie Taylor/Richie Cunningham — for having “created a monster” by making a movie based on the best-selling book Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, now Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee.
Their chief film critic Peter Debruge lowered the boom:
Unlike so many of the books published in the lead-up to someone’s political candidacy — such as Barack Obama’s 2007 The Audacity of Hope or Kamala Harris’ 2019 The Truths We Hold — Hillbilly Elegy wasn’t written for readers of Vance’s political persuasion. Rather, it served to explain to liberals why Trump would get elected that fall, inspiring waves of parachute journalism as reporters rushed to such communities to make sense of the strange…
