
Entering Plymouth....not
Terriffic job
here by the Boston Globe Spotlight team exposing the sham "Hollywood East" project that's been a highly-touted part of our state's "economic development strategy."
Punch line: "....a look behind the breathtaking vision of Plymouth Rock Studios reveals
a project marred by over-the-top claims, broken promises, legal
infighting, and the chronic lack of one crucial ingredient: money."
Sounds a lot like the Big Dig, the Rose Kennedy Greenway, transportation "reform" and universal health care, to name just a few of the mega-policy disasters of the last quarter-century or so here in Eden East. (Add to my list below.) Our arts-related resources are a potential source of legitimate economic growth, and movie and TV-production spending
that generates profit for the Commonwealth ought to be a part of that. But pie-in-the-sky-when-you-die fantasies about thousands of high-paying jobs in Plymouth?
Please. It was meep when
Rev. Ike used to peddle it on late-night TV and it's been mega-meep coming from the Reverends Cellucci, Swift, Romney and Patrick.
By the way, while we're making lists, can you add to one I'm starting of disastrous legacies of the Cellucci years? A runaway Big Dig, the pretend 2000 income-tax rollback, infatuation with Hollywood, Jane Swift.....