Gimme a Break

Look, I read Nikki Finke, but 100 most influential people in the world?!? Come on. Hollywood has a way over inflated sense of itself.

UPDATE: Correction...Nikki Finke has a way overinflated sense of herself. Movies matter. They are shared community experiences and cultural reference points. In a global society, movies provide a shared understanding of story and values and character and provide a jumping off point for conversation. A short hand way of communicating with each other. To this extent, movies matter. People who write about the movie business don't matter that much. People who facilitate movies getting made don't matter that much...ie Hollywood...per an anonymous Hollywood insider, one can track the downfall of Michael Ovitz from the day he became more important than his clients. An important lesson to remember...