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.
I for one will never forget what she did. There are 58,272 names on the Vietnam Memorial. More that a few were men I served with, many are men I grew up. How many of their deaths were attributable to Hanoi Jane and John Kerry?
I understand the passion but would like conservatives to become more interested and engaged in the arts - abandoning the arts to the Left has been a huge mistake for this country. There are people on Free Republic who understand absolutely nothing about the art of acting (much less music, ballet or opera) and yet continually spout off about who is a good actor and who is not. It would be like me going onto one of our brilliant threads about gun control, hunting and the military and giving a completely ignorant opinion because - hey! - I gotta opinion!
And again, it’s just a fact of life that great artists are rarely good people. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is, maybe, Leonardo Da Vinci who was quite a lovely man.