(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) Once upon a time, when brand-name actors struck out on promotional/junket tours for their newest Hollywood release, they could expect lighthearted, if sometimes repetitive, queries about their movie from the entertainment writers tasked to interview them. Maybe, every once in a while, the actors are peppered with banal fishing expeditions into their personal lives, but that’s something they come to expect as a celebrity. But over the years, as RedState readers might be aware, politics have been allowed to creep into the otherwise non-political coverage of Hollywood and the movies. One recent example of this phenomena, which I talked about with my Townhall Media colleague Brad Slager, who joined me on the “Lower Culture With Becca Lower” podcast Oscars special, was the Chicago Tribune’s film writer deciding to interject his progressive opinions into the Oscar picks column he wrote leading up to the night of the ceremony.