Posted on 10/19/2015 12:34:00 PM PDT by servo1969
You are thinking of Henry Wallace, a closet Communist, who was the sitting Vice President just 11 weeks before FDR's death.
Can you imagine how the post-war negotiations would have turned out if Wallace and Stalin were writing the treaty?
Truman and Stalin were a disaster for the USA.
Wallace would have been a geopolitical catastrophe!
“The Crucible”. Used by the left to indoctrinate school children for the past 40 plus years.
The play Miller wrote about Monroe was titled, “After the Fall.”
I know i am a generation detached from the homeland, but it still hurts to see the mafia wreacking suck havoc.
My loyalty is ALWAYS to America first but my father, who was from Naoles, died when I as young and my mother’s mother is Sicilian and I have been there and feel an affinity towards it.
They almost became a state. That would have been fun :)
The Sicilian mafia makes the American mafia look like boyscouts. One the other day used a granson as a human shield.
I was in a pizzeria and eight Italian kids came in. they were very polite but couldn’t afford much so i bought them a pizza
My nephews and nieces wont give a #$@#$ about Italians or italy at all lol. That’s as it should be.
But me, I am still partial.
But dont worry, America ALWAYS comes first.
Miller was neither an old man or an ugly old man when he married Marilyn. In fact, as someone who would see him on the streets of NYC, he was quite an attractive man. He wrote a play about Marilyn and damned if I can think of its title. Help me, someone!
Marilyn was a fine actress and comedian. I blame the truly ugly Lee Strasberg who told her that she was a genius and an intellectual - the latter clearly she was not - and because of that, she sought out brainy guys to bolster her idea as an “intellectual” woman. That led to the poor woman thinking that Carl Sandburg was a genius.
She was in reality, a very intelligent and savvy woman but fell for all the phonies (Elia Kazan, I mean you!) who were basically trying to get into her pants. I exclude Miller from this who at least married her and cherished her for a few years. He eventually could not put up with her drink and pill addiction or her reliance on the awful Strasberg family. (Paula, I mean you!)
This is a very complicated story of a woman who, for a few short years, was America’s greatest comic actress. I didn’t say that - David Mamet did.
I have already posted this once but I guess that you didn’t see it.
The play Miller wrote about Monroe was titled, “After the Fall.”
Intriguing discovery - the English actor Daniel Day-Lewis has been married to one of Miller's daughters for 20 years.
Day-Lewis regularly visited Miller's handicapped child for many years, and he apparently convinced Miller to begin visiting the child before Miller died.
Are you texting? I think you must be.
What the Sicilian Mafia has foisted on Sicily infuriates me. In my two visits, we had to pay off youths to not destroy our rental cars while visiting various sites. My husband’s family has to pay them off - these very decent people who work so hard. As hard as Americans!
For the most part, the American mafia was at war with each other; in Sicily they are at war with ordinary Italians.
Thank you! I had such a blackout on that title. And I did miss your earlier post; sorry.
My male friends and I were pre-teens when we made that judgment.
He was 11 years older than Marilyn.
He may have been attractive to you and Marilyn, but that was definitely not the consensus in 1956, when, if my math is correct, you were just one year old.
Anyway, if you reread my comment, it was written to make people laugh, and it concluded with a healthy dose of self-parody.
Oh, ok! I missed the self-parody. I guess Miller, given his lanky length and powerful personality, appeals to women. He was also very funny when he appeared on the Cavett show many years ago. I love a good sense of humor!
Norman Podhoretz when a youth was already familiar with violent, black males in the the '20s and '30s. Fifty years ago he wrote a long essay about the trials of Jews being harassed and beaten by black males almost 80-90 years ago.
It led to him eventually being ostracized by the lib/leftist fraternity for telling the truth. After a notable literary career as a liberal he wrote "Breaking Ranks" the story of his leaving the left and the reasons why.
Miller had talent as a playwright. But like a lot of his plays DOAS gets in a number of digs at the capitalist system.
Willy Loman cannot make it as a salesman anymore and unsuccessfully tries to commit suicide. His no-good son Biff tries to make it in the business world and fails badly. Meanwhile, the geeky friend becomes a success as a judge, a government success.
BTW, my father was a salesman.
I've seen the flick several times. Nice piece of commie propaganda. Send your old commie teach a copy of Orwell's "Homage To Catalonia" an account of his experiences fighting for the Loyalists is the SCW. and see if you get a response. It probably won't be a positive one.
Miller wasn't any older than DiMaggio. But Joltin' Joe was a big male sex symbol while at 40-41 Miller already looked like an older man.
Interesting.
Miller married the noted photographer Inge Morath, who was pregnant with his child. They met while Inge was photographing Monroe on the set of *Misfits*.
In 1966 Inge gave birth to a son named Daniel, who was born with Down Syndrome. Arthur did not have the emotional capacity to deal with a disabled child and he was therefore, at Arthur’s instigation, institutionalized shortly after his birth. Whilst Inge was a regular visitor until her death, it has been reported that Arthur Miller did not visit Daniel.
*bump*
I had to read The Crucible in high school. I remember being bored by it and skimming through it at just enough depth to write a passable book report. Probably got a B- or something.
Upshot of the article is that Miller was a communist and a liar, as expected.
McCarthy only dealt with communists in the government.
Wallace wasn’t an unrepentant communist. He supported the American effort in the Korean War and endorsed Nixon in 1960.
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