Arthur Miller's Other Legacy: Stalin's Little Helper

Human Events Online ^ | March 22, 2005 | Allan Ryskind

[rcocean]

Thanks for posting this.

[Cicero]

Yes, he was Stalin's little helper.

He also did more than any other propagandist to set up the cry of "McCarthyism," which has been one of the left's most useful tools for the past 50 years, until Anne Coulter finally drove a stake through its heart (we hope).

Plus, as I said on the early threads, he was a second-rate playwright.

[Just mythoughts]

The liberal party and its funders are stalinist. Too bad too many conservatives help fund stalinists through hollywood.

[battlecry]

Someone who knew him well once told me that, right before testifying, he was told they could go easy on him if he allowed some VIPs to meet his wife. That sent him over the edge with contempt for the hearings and redefined his persona. Hard to be a real socialist living in a CT estate, though. Wait a minute, I take that back. That's really easy.

[Borges]

The liberal party and its funders are stalinist. Too bad too many conservatives help fund stalinists through hollywood.

Oh so anyone who loves movies isn't a true conservative then? Your solution is to ignore an entire artform? Please.

[Just mythoughts]

"Oh so anyone who loves movies isn't a true conservative then? Your solution is to ignore an entire artform? Please."

We have choices and my love of country far outweighs any movie that funds stalinists.

[Borges]

Assuming that some movie does. You think that people like Tarantino and Spielberg are Stalinists? Come on!

[yldstrk]

Arthur Miller was a loser.

[Just mythoughts]

"Assuming that some movie does. You think that people like Tarantino and Spielberg are Stalinists? Come on!"

The Clintons are Stalinist, and those who fund them are funding Stalinist.

Liberals are Stalinist, and hollywood is the face of beauty of the beast of stalinism. It is a religion from long ago called 'we are gods', HAVEN'T YOU READ, nothing new under the sun.

[wideawake]

Someone who knew him well once told me that, right before testifying, he was told they could go easy on him if he allowed some VIPs to meet his wife.

He didn't marry Monroe until after his appearance before HUAC, and he had just divorced his first wife a few months before.

[wideawake]

You think that people like Tarantino and Spielberg are Stalinists? Come on!

Spielberg apparently considers Castro a good buddy.

And Tarantino has been kissing ChiCom behinds quite a bit lately, seeing as how he got permission to film his Kill Bill series in Beijing.

[REPUBLICAN KID 88]

Im in 11th Grade and they made us read "death of a salesman" in class. (I got yelled at for making comments all through out the book, the teacher still doesnt like me)

[Borges]

QT is about as non-communist as you can get. :-) He wanted the look and feel that only that location can provide. You have to kiss up to them to get permission I would assume. A number of Western films have been filmed in China. (the first being Spielberg's 'Empire of the Sun' actually). And no single artist has celebrated the need for the American nuclear family the way Spielberg has.

[Borges]

It's a dreary play. Very dated.

[randog]

Plus, as I said on the early threads, he was a second-rate playwright.

I read Death of a Salesman in college. I was underwhelmed despite the prof's vociferous insistance that it was good stuff.

[Borges]

It's more a symbol of a certain generational mentality then great art. Even from the leftist perspective people like Steinbeck and Dreiser dwarf Miller.

[RightWingAtheist]

Is there any filmmaker more apolitical than Tarantino?

[RightWingAtheist]

The Clintons aren't Stalinist, they're Sleazinist.

[RightWingAtheist]

Is the author of this piece any relation to the great playwright and screenwriter (and great conservative) Morrie Ryskind?