With the possible exception of university administrations, there is no institution as bereft of courage as Hollywood.

In Hollywood courage is defined as savaging oil, power and tobacco executives on film. Or producing yet another movie on the evils of the Iraq War.

But if courage means doing what is unpopular — especially among one's peers — I can recall precious few politically incorrect films made in the last decade ("The Dark Knight" comes to mind as a p ...

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