He was their pawn to get world attention. And there were some tough years. In the beginning he was a folk singer, then a member of the Second City troupe, and then a Broadway sensation. If you don't go, they won't make it anymore. But people go, so they make it.
People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan.
They just make the movies that people go to see. I think it's that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they'd make Bible movies from now to the end of time. It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any.