Old Hollywood vs New Hollywood

Old Hollywood represents a genre vastly different from that of today.  What used to be Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra has become Lil’ Wayne and Lady Gaga.  What used to be Judy Garland and Humphrey Bogart has become Lindsay Lohan and Heath Ledger.  What used to be the Donna Reid Show has become The Jersey Shore—one television phenomenon that I will never understand.  That’s not to say that what we have today is always bad or distasteful—those few shows, actors and singers that don’t try to push the envelope as far as it will go do have their respective merits and assimilate well into today’s society.  I just think it would be interesting to see how today’s society would respond to the modesty and clean-cut-ness of Old Hollywood, which also undoubtedly had its own problems.  What might be more interesting would be to see how the society that enjoyed Old Hollywood would respond to the raunch and all around bad taste of some of the rising stars of today.