THB #121: Happy PassEaster

h/t The San Diego Union-Tribune

Passover is about stopping and telling the story.

Easter is about stopping and telling the story.

They are very different stories, but both are, ultimately, about perseverance and are meant to trigger our commitment to our faiths.

Plagues, Parting of the Red Sea, the Ten Commandments, returning from the dead… all seem to be objectively from the land of metaphor and subjectively a matter of faith that I am not looking to challenge today.

So what is the powerful metaphoric tale of Hollywood… an industry built on myth and metaphor?

Well… I started trying to write this piece on Friday. Worked my way through The Four Questions. Tried to come up with a clever twist on the Four Sons (Wise, Wicked, Simple, and One Who Cannot Even Figure Out How To Ask). Kinda boring to roll out the Iger/Chapek/Redstone/Lionsgate jokes.

The Resurrection isn’t really funny.

Even as a bit about theatrical coming back, the logical follow on that story would be the screening of Mars o…