[Timesink]

Add another one to the celebrity body count.

[Unknown Freeper]

Boy, has this been a rough week if one is famous.

[TomServo]

Another thread.

[Dog Gone]

When I die, I don't want my lawyer announcing it.

[veronica]

One of the all-time greats, who also stood up against Communist sympathizers in Hollywood. A giant among men.

[opbuzz]

I remember the Hollywood communists who sat on their hands when he received the Oscar.

Ignorant communists.

[The Mayor]

[Lancey Howard]

Kazan was a truly great film director, and a far better man than any of the simpleton Hollywooders who grind their teeth over not being around in the early '50s so they could bask today in the phony martyrdom of having been....blacklisted! Those scumbag no-talents who were "blacklisted" are actually heroes to some of today's chic Hollywood nouveau celebrities. Kazan never bought any of it.

[truthkeeper]

One of the greatest directors of all time. Rest in peace.

[martin_fierro]

And crossword puzzle editors everywhere go into mourning (seems to me Kazan's name was a clue in 80% of the ones I do).

[Petronski]

He named names....God bless him for courage.

[Numbers Guy]

One of the all-time greats, who also stood up against Communist sympathizers in Hollywood

Unfortunately the press coverage will tear into him for being brave.

The irony is that if he had stood up against Nazi sympathizers, the media would be lionizing him.

But because he questioned those who were infatuated with Red Fascism he's considered evil by the press.

Sickening.

[Desdemona]

Oh, no.

"On the Waterfront", "Baby Doll", and "Streetcar Named Desire" were/are all on TCM tonight.

RIP to one of the most gifted directors ever.

[quietolong]

Do you want to see how many Communist there still are in Hollywood?...Protesting Kazan's Award

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/975677/posts

[Theodore R.]

PBS had a special on Kazan and Arthur Miller earlier this month. I taped it but have yet to finish watching it. Apparently the two were BOTH involved with the Robert F. Kennedy paramour, Marilyn Monroe.

[Antoninus]

My wife and I just rented "On the Waterfront" last night on a whim. Neither of us had ever seen it before. Great movie, although both of us though that Leonard Bernstein's score was awful and didn't really fit the movie at all.

[MHT]

Also, two of the greatest crossword puzzle names of all time.

[cold_dead_fingers]

May this great man RIP

[jellybean]

Elia Kazan threads from the past:

Elia Kazan's Courage

Elia Kazan, Victim of Reverse Blacklist, to Get Honorary Oscar

Elia Kaan: One of the 'Martyrs' Will Applaud

Elia Kazan: A Great American

Elia Kaan Deserves His Award

[Havisham]

Make that the great Elia Kazan. He loved this country and defended it inspite of the Hollywood jackals who peddle the virtues of the Stalin TO THIS DAY. Kazan saw what the commies were really about, repudiated the ideology, and when forced, named the traitors who wouldn't repent. I loved your films, Elia. I can even forgive you teaming up with that stinker of a 'writer', Arthur Miller. (cringe)

[NCC-1701]

What is going on? There has been a growing list of the "Old Guard" of the entertainment industry leaving us. There has been quite a few in the last two weeks alone. It seems that room is being made to accommodate the new breed of self-absorbed, me-generation "entertainers". By thatI'm talking about the likes of Madonna, Brittany, Bono, the Dixie Chicks, etc. Please help all of us of the Cash, Palmer, Kazan, etc. generation, look who we are stuck with now.