If you haven’t completely lost any form of admiration or being enamored with Hollywood then you’re not paying attention or super misinformed/shallow.
It’s a dark industry. They play these make believe characters and people buy into this escape and fantasy for a couple of hours. These people often sleep with people for breaks, have huge drug problems, are more often than not completely ignorant (Jennifer Lawrence and Johnny Depp couldn’t even get past the 10th grade) yet are surrounded by people that make them feel like they’re important and smart.
But like you said, these are the same people who fall for Scientology (which there’s zero excuse to believe) and then have no problems with Harvey Weinstein or Roman Polanski until it’s beneficial for them to be against it. And people are kidding themselves if they think it’s only Hollywood studio heads and famous directors doing this. No, it’s from the bottom to the top- from crew, casting directors, agents, modeling, managers, etc. So many sell themselves for a chance to get ahead.
But when it comes to politics, my list of people I will no longer watch has grown significantly.