1.0 link 59464 <![CDATA[Hollywood: Where Ignorance Actually is Bliss]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/hollywood-where-ignorance_b_59464.html It was the quintessential Hollywood disaster film. But not the way you think. This Christmas disaster wasn't on-screen but at the box office.

Gleeful pundits didn't even try to keep the holiday twinkle from of their eyes. The L.A. Times had two separate articles already burying The Polar Express after only its opening weekend. Dead on arrival. The Polar Express was a colossal, unthinking debacle.

One little problem. The movie's worldwide box office ended up at $301 million.

The point...

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