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To: LibFreeOrDie

"Don't believe the cr*p you hear about the heroism of the Hollywood Ten. The truly brave guys, like Elia Kazan, continue to be reviled. Kazan was roundly booed by Oscar attendees a few years ago. Ever see "On the Waterfront"? That's really about him standing up to the Communists."

RIGHT ON! I posted it just a moment ago: communist party loyalty is akin to Mafia crime brotherhood.

(Didn't Kazan also direct "Streetcar Named Desire"?)

Any blind, soul-binding loyalty required by a political party like the subversive communist party was/is enslavement! Elia Kazan was loyal to principle and truth.

The Hollywood TEN went underground and the (talented)writers wrote through Hollywood surrogates and by aliases.

Even amoral cowards have talents: some sing, some write, some report the news.


28 posted on 04/23/2005 9:12:04 PM PDT by purpleland (The price of freedom is vigilance.)
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To: purpleland
(Didn't Kazan also direct "Streetcar Named Desire"?)

Yes he did. On stage and on screen.

The Hollywood TEN went underground and the (talented)writers wrote through Hollywood surrogates and by aliases.

Billy Wilder had a timeless bon mot about the Unfriendly Ten: 'Only three of them had any talent...the others were just unfriendly'.
32 posted on 04/23/2005 10:35:11 PM PDT by Borges
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