[Chi-townChief]

I was going to say that Roger the fat boy actually wrote a decent article until I saw the old one attached below it.

[So Cal Rocket]

I wish someone would "name names" today!

[Roarkdude]

Who were the 8 people he named and were they communists? Were they out-ed by the Verona project?

[Antoninus]

If you watch "On the Waterfront," Kazan's thought process on "naming names" is laid out pretty clearly. It's too late to "name names" in Hollyweird now. It's overrun with "progressives," "greens," and "useful idiots." The best we can do is not buy their products. I'm perfectly content to watch the one new Mel Gibson/Bruce Willis movie that comes out each year and shun everything else.

[Steely Glint]

Another Commie down...and still way too many to go.

[billorites]

the hotly controversial "Baby Doll" (1956), starring Carroll Baker in a performance considered daring at the time

Still my favorite Kazan movie.

Hot is right! Great performances by Karl Malden and Eli Wallach.

[nickcarraway]

Anyone who wants to know about Hollywood and communism please check out this book: Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s by Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley.It's a great book.

[Arkady]

A great director, a perverted industry and a guy who gives critics a bad name.

[perfect stranger]

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