A Dad's Point of View - Hollywood should be ashamed No, I don't blame Hollywood or the Dark Knight for the Colorado shootings. But, I do blame Hollywood for the deterioration of its product, the resulting desensitization of our kids, and the overall lack of concern for what it produces and the impact it has on our souls. The recent tragedy in Aurora, Colorado in which a young man, dressed in full protective gear, wrought havoc, death, and mayhem on an innocent movie crowd is no accident. He was a lover of The Joker, the "star" of the second Dark Knight movie, portrayed by the late Heath Ledger. He was a lover of violent role-playing video games. He chose the new Batman movie crowd as his target; he didn't choose the latest Pixar movie. I worked in the entertainment business for a quarter century. My forte was the now largely defunct "Movie of the Week." We suffered our own run of poor taste when so many of the television movies were ripped-from-the-headlines true murder films. The first writing I ever did was my effort to put a halt to that shameful period of television with "Murders of the Week." It was later reprinted in the Daily Variety and I like to think it led to the considerable lessening of production of those movies. The Hollywood my parents grew up with and that I grew up with was quite different than today's movie world. My parents lived through World War II,