Edition: U.S. / Global  Journal;No Bravehearts Here  Published:
March 27, 1996  I don't believe that the bicoastal American
show-biz and media elite are a bunch of pious and arrogant
hypocrites. But if I did, I'd sure be having a ball right now
watching two of that elite's most hallowed annual, star-filled
rites -- Hollywood's Oscar show and Washington's Radio-
Television Correspondents Association dinner -- expose the
pretensions of their black-tie invitees.  For me at least, the
appeal of this year's Oscar night had little to do with the race
between Mel Gibson and the pig. The real fun was to see if
anyone in Hollywood's liberal establishment, never shy in the
past about using the telecast as a soapbox, would step up to
defend the movie industry against the loud and persuasive recent
charges that its record as an equal-opportunity employer rivals
that of the O'Haras in "Gone With the Wind."  The defense never
came -- mainly because there isn't one. This month's
embarrassing People magazine expose -- which r