Though more poetic than your standard studio fare, " City of Angels " inevitably vulgarizes the source material.
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Macdonald writes " [ The Middlebrow ] pretends to respect the standards of High Culture while in fact it waters them down and vulgarizes them . " He promoted a separation between the'brows'so that " the few who care about good writing, painting, music, architecture, philosophy, etc . have their High Culture, and don't fuzz up the distinction with the Midcult ."