Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Idle mocks Hollywood by depicting kids on drugs and adults on roller skates.
- In plain terms
- He stereotypes Hollywood as dysfunctional for both young and old.
- What can you take from it?
- Industries can be stereotyped as chaotic.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is Hollywood truly this chaotic?
- Why do we stereotype industries?
Another view
Generalizing all people in a city is unfair.
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