Tweets, sexual abuse and racial divides shook the entertainment industry and beyond in 2017
It was a year we couldn't have fathomed, a year of strife and weirdness, a time of wild tweets and endless scandal, when movies gave us reflection, Ken Burns jolted us back to Vietnam, and the entertainment industry was shaken by sexual abuse accusations that raised disturbing questions about what's behind the art, film and music that shape American culture.
The calendar began with arguments in the media over the crowd size at President Trump's inauguration. It will end, at least by Hollywood's rubric, with "The Post," Steven Spielberg's rendering of the Washington Post's decision in 1971 to publish the classified Pentagon Papers that exposed U.S. lies around the war in Southeast Asia. There's symmetry to those bookends, especially these days with the press covering a combative and secretive White House.
The year spun like a prickly edged whisper through mind
