Blacklisting/cancelling is OK when they do it.
Meanwhile, our side is told to MoveOn-dot-com.
Elia Kazan was a great American.
Good things that liberals (ptui-ptui) have eliminated the practice of blacklisting.
Bad thing that liberals still exist.
That blacklisting was minimal compared to Hollyweird’s blacklisting of anything pro Christian, pro conservative or pro American.
Don’t know what they’re griping about. The so-called “entertainment” industry today is plump with neo-Bolsheviks.
There WERE Communists and many hundreds of Communist sympathizers in the State Department, in the White House, in Hollywood and the press in the 50’s.
There ARE NOW Communists and many tens of thousands of Communist sympathizers in the State Department, in the White House, in the FBI, in the CIA, in EVERY staff in Congress and in EVERY government program in Hollywood and the press in the 2020’s.
The problem is, McCarthy was right. The system was indeed infiltrated by commies and we are seeing the end results today.
When leftists accuse, it’s a lie. The great deceiver...
not as many as you would destroy wi your commie propaganda...
What are the Hollywood Marxists gonna do, send Alec Baldwin to wield the trophy?
McCarthy was %100 correct in accusing Hollywood of communist influence. It’s now spread to nearly all media institutions in the USA including nearly all the universities.
The filthy scum communist now call themselves democrats. /spit
Barzman was a Communist Party member from 1943 to 1949 and was a supporter of Stalin, a fact she was still boasting about in 2014 when she told the Los Angeles Times, "one should be proud to have been a member of the American Communist Party during those years. Hitler was invading the Soviet Union, so there was no reason to be anti-Russian, they were our allies." Edward Dmytryk of the Hollywood Ten, who had been in the CP from 1944 to 1945, testified about her husband Ben Barzman during his second appearance before HUAC, after the Alger Hiss case persuaded him he had been duped by the Communists. She had previously been married to Claude Shannon, a mathematician prominent in Allied cryptography.
If you find yourself in the mood to read a 848 page book that was written by a Greek, not a Russian, you may consider Elia’s autobiography called “A Life”
I was in the mood for reading during this Covid season.
I wanted something to take my mind off of the regular news.
Once you get used to Elia’s narration and pacing, sometimes fast, sometimes jumping back and forward in time, he is a very good storyteller. It took me a few weeks to slowly mow through the book, but I enjoyed it. So much to learn about film direction, how he dealt with difficult actors, how his insecurities affected his private life. In many aspects, Elia is not a ‘nice or fully honorable’ man.
He is selfish, extraordinarily self centered and not terribly interested in changing it. Perhaps it takes such haughty pride disguised as self confidence to succeed in Hollywood, where everything is but a gamble.
Try it, you’ll like it.
Twenty years ago. Everybody is dead now.
As much as I hate to quote Wikipedia, this is from their article on Sen. McCarthy: "McCarthy's hearings are often incorrectly conflated with the hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). HUAC is best known for its investigations of Alger Hiss and the Hollywood film industry, which led to the blacklisting of hundreds of actors, writers, and directors. HUAC was a House committee, and as such it had no formal connection to McCarthy, who served in the Senate, although the existence of the House Un-American Activities Committee thrived in part as a result of McCarthy's activities. HUAC was active for 37 years (1938–1975)."
Of course, the article is from the WaComPost so what can you expect???
Kazan initially refused to provide names, but eventually named eight former Group Theatre members who he said had been Communists: Clifford Odets, J. Edward Bromberg, Lewis Leverett, Morris Carnovsky, Phoebe Brand, Tony Kraber, Ted Wellman, and Paula Miller, who later married Lee Strasb
Old Reds never die. They just smell that way.
What is happening in Ukraine is a direct result of these traitors activities in the 30s thru the present. The Iron Curtain, the extermination of Warsaw/Poland during Ww2, the Katyn Forest Massacre, the seizure and betrayal of Yugoslavia during WW2 and China later. Not to mention the Greek communist created civil war, the red seizure of Vietnam, Laos and genocide in Cambodia, the crushing of the Hungarians in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.
I could go on but my fingers are cramping with these American traitors support for communism, esp. Stalin.
Traitors are traitors, period, never heroes.
The betray of the people of Cuba, Chile and Nicaragua