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The response of the left’s Hollywood pack to Bush’s war on terrorism and his preparations for war against Saddam stirred me into reflecting on the disgusting treatment they handed out to Elia Kazan. Kazan had committed the unforgivable sin of revealing the names of Hollywood Stalinists, people who had worked to introduce the wonderful benefits of the Gulag to the American public. I do not know a single person who has not heard of Senator McCarthy and the Hollywood blacklist, even though he had nothing to do with it. The mere mention of McCarthy’s name at any one of Hollywood’s...

Filed at 3:35 p.m. ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A ghost is haunting Hollywood -- the specter of the long-abandoned anti-communist blacklist of the 1950s. In a testament to the staying power of the controversial list, the widow of famed liberal film producer Stanley Kramer is thinking of suing the Public Broadcasting Service for a documentary she calls ``a hatchet job'' on her late husband and his relationships with a blacklisted writer of that era. Karen Sharpe Kramer says that the documentary, ``Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents,'' scheduled to air on PBS Sept. 17, defames her husband...