Posted on 05/01/2010 10:05:42 AM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
here is no better précis of how the Left thinks about the world, and acts on it, than the British journalist Nick Cohen’s article appearing in the new issue of Standpoint. Cohen writes a candid appraisal of what left-wing politics did to the mind and life of the late actor Corin Redgrave, brother of the more famous Vanessa, who like her brother, is a lifetime member of a small fanatic Trotskyist sect, the Workers Revolutionary Party, led by a man named Gerry Healy. The group was so fanatic that it accused Trotsky’s American followers of having been responsible for his murder in Mexico, ignoring all the evidence that it was an NKVD operation orchestrated by Joseph Stalin.
As Cohen notes, all the Redgraves are good actors. Vanessa could, while she denounced Israel and praised Palestinian terrorists, at the same time appear on American television as a Jewish concentration camp victim in a Holocaust drama. I used to say, when people asked for my position on the blacklist of the 1950s, that I despise Vanessa Redgrave’s politics, but would go at a minute’s notice to see her perform in a Broadway play. I praised her acting ability, and her prowess as an actor did not make me pay an ounce of attention to her political harangues.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
The Regraves...
Michael the father...
Vanessa and Lyn the daughters
and now a son, Corin ???
Redgraves
Hollywood is now multi-generational. No decendent ever leaves for the real world and employment, they stay in the movie business.......
Ethel Barrymore and her brothers (Lionel) were my favorite family...
thought eveyone knew
Lest we forget!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOwH-46ovlo
Cripes' sake! If it's such an admirable ideology, why do its adherents insist on hiding it, disguising it, or just plain lying about it?
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Vanessa Redgrave is a far better actor than Jane Fonda, but she doesn prove the point that a talented artist does not equal a mental giant. The entertainment world is full of faux leftist, “champions of the people” who most likely detest the people they claim to be championing. How do people become that stupid? I don’t have the answer.
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