I think Kirk may have been the one to break the blacklist, I’m not sure. Unfortunately, a lot of the idiot communist writers in Hollywood during this period were amazingly gifted writers. Many people at FR believe that for art to be good the artists must be good people. It just doesn’t work like that. Sadly, Jane Fonda is not only a rotten person she’s not all that good an actress - Klute being the one exception.
Paths of Glory! What a wonderful if horrific movie. To this day, the opening sequence of Kirk walking through the battlefield gives me the absolute creeps. WWI - the worst war in the world!
RE Kirk/Blacklist:
Yes, he did say that he was the first to use a “blacklisted” screenwriter’s real name - that being Trumbo - in the credits for Spartacus.
“...Many people at FR believe that for art to be good the artists must be good people...”
Well... I think what you’ll find is that many people here on FR have spent time in their lives with bullets flying a little too close to home to have time for those that helped the people SENDING those bullets their way.
My beef with the “art” world is that so many of the “artists” support the very people that use them for propaganda purposes against the Country that provided them every opportunity to BE anything they wanted to be. There is nowhere else on earth like America, and yet you have folks who SUCCEEDED beyond most of our wildest imaginings, using that success to run down the Country that PROVIDED that success.
Jane Fonda should have been prosecuted for treason. Providing aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war. What she did - willingly, freely, eyes-wide-open - was contemptible. So the reactions you see here are not surprising. Any American patriot should be outraged.
John Kerry is of that same ilk as Fonda.
We should not forget these people and what they did; allowing them and their actions to disappear down the memory hole does a shameful disservice to every young American son, father, brother, uncle, who went away to Vietnam to fight for a people who were being murdered and systematically erased, and never came home.
That’s why folks here are so passionate about this.