HOLLYWOOD MYOPIA

Bad timing and insensitivity were on parade when the Emmy Awards show began with a skit involving a plane crash. This on the day of the deadliest U.S. crash in five years. Once again Hollywood shows how it is tone-deaf when it comes to the rest of America. If the Comair crash had happened in Los Angeles or New York... or New Orleans (fashionable for feigned "extra concern" today) they would have done a re-write. But hey, as showbiz sees it, Kentucky's just flyover hick country. Here's one Hollywood critic who gets it right: www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/emmy-what-was-nbcconan-thinking/