I got online in 1994 and in 1999, as a single mother with a baby, I had an idea for a website. I wanted to stay home and raise my child by myself. I was an early pioneer in working online. That publication was called Oscarwatch.com. The Academy sued me and I then had to change it to AwardsDaily.com. Eventually, the site made an income for my daughter and me.

But Hollywood changed. It is no longer the industry I once knew and loved. There is a rigid dogma that overtaken it. In my opinion, that has destroyed storytelling and the business I am in, film awards. There is only so much I can say on my website publicly. I do have a staff to protect. That is why I moved here, to Substack, to share my thoughts without fear of ruining their careers.

My entire life revolved around movies, from the time I was a little kid. I turned to them to help me make sense of life. That required artists to be given the kind of freedom to tell stories, to scratch at the surface, to tell the truth. But I can no longer turn to movies. They, like almost everything the Left controls, have been overtaken by ideological compliance and conformity.

Not all movies, of course. There are still, by some miracle, movies that do manage to slip through the cracks that still tell stories honestly, but they are few and far between.

I would like a place to celebrate many of those movies and movies of the past, not to mention writing critically about what has happened to Hollywood.

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