The Directors Who Didn't Speak

Bridget Johnson has some thoughts on why Hollywood's elite are silent over the murder of Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh. She did a search on responses by prominent persons associated with the movie industry, and her discovery is no surprise:

Giving Hollywood the benefit of the doubt, I did one more search to find industry response to the van Gogh murder. I found the blog of novelist and screenwriter Roger L. Simon, who confirmed that I wasn't the only one who'd been wondering: "It's stunning how silent the American artistic community, Hollywood in particular, has been about the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh in Amsterdam," he wrote. "Do they even know what happened to one of their own? Have they even heard of him? Do they care someone was killed for making a film which protested violent abuse against women? Are they even interested?"