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The Truth about the "Hollywood Ten"
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | April 18, 2005 | Art Eckstein

Posted on 04/18/2005 10:47:45 AM PDT by Liz

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To: Calpernia
Hello, my nic is nopardons and I'm a bookaholic! LOL

We have a "formal" library, complete with fireplace and floor to ceiling bookshelves on every inch of wall space,where there isn't a window.

I have a study, with one wall of bookcases; my husband has his study, which has a wall of bookshelves. There are filled bookcases in our daughter's room; though she took quite a lot of books with here, when she moved away and now she and her husband have run out of bookshelf space, even though they bought a lovely antique secretary that has shelf space, for the overflow.

I have books in my living room ( I also have an antique secretary. LOL ), books in the guest room, books in the kitchen, books in the master bathroom, books still in boxes in the basement, two shelves of books in the train room, and I have now run out of book room! :-(

Oh, I don't read Clancey's books; not my cuppa.

We make ice cream too, though not often. There's a local Conn. ice cream that I love,but it isn't as good as the stuff in Florida.

A "colored herb" in their dish? LOL

My daughter started off as a rather picky eater, but just hang in there...children will grow out of that! Now, my beloved kiddo is a far more adventurous eater than I; she ate THE strangest stuff in South Africa!

My daughter was never much of a T.V. watcher and we didn't want her to be,so we showed her movies and then tapes (when VCRs came along ) of what WE wanted her to see and appreciate. If you want some suggestion re NON-Disney stuff, for you kiddos, just drop me a note in FREEPmail, with their ages and I'll be more than happy to give you a list. :-)

121 posted on 04/18/2005 10:20:51 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Liz

Long read, but worth it. It's always a pleasant surprise to read a sober story about HUAC and the Hollywood blacklisting that does not gratuitously invoke the name of Joe McCarthy (who, of course had nothing to do with HUAC) and lob the word "McCarthyism" into every other paragraph.


122 posted on 04/18/2005 10:22:28 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Calpernia

YIKES ! Thanks for the link. :-)


123 posted on 04/18/2005 10:22:41 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons; Calpernia; Borges

I like what Robert Mitchum said about the commie writers in the late 40's, early fifties. " It is hard to have sympathy for a bunch of spoiled brats who make $5,000 a week, and on Thursday nights, sneak off to a meeting in a fashonable house in Beverly Hills to meet with commie hotshots. Me, I kicked a couple of their asses, just on general principles"

A&E Network, 1996.

And Borges, there havent been more than 20 good films released in the last 20 years.

(Former tv writer)

Tim


124 posted on 04/18/2005 10:23:43 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: international american
there havent been more than 20 good films released in the last 20 years.

Well I obviously disagree with that assessment. But your standards are commendably high!
125 posted on 04/18/2005 10:26:29 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Yeah, most of the great films were made between 1930, and 1970. Nine out of ten feature releases today I give up on in the first 20 minutes.


126 posted on 04/18/2005 10:31:32 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: international american

Well see I think the 1970s was a great time for American cinema..The Godfather, Taxi Driver and so on. The 1960s was weak. Transitional period.


127 posted on 04/18/2005 10:33:01 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges; Calpernia; nopardons
I meant pre 1953 or so. Even maintream best selling writers like Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser and John Steinbeck would be openly socialist if not communist back then.

Actually, according to a standard history of Communism among US writers, Daniel Aaron's Writers on the Left, most US Communist writers had become disillusioned with Stalin by the end of the 1930s due to the Stalin/Trotsky rift, the Purge Trials, the Nazi-Soviet alliance, and in general the Communist Party's policy flip-flops and overbearing disciplinary tactics, which had driven away even former enthusiasts like Max Eastman as early as the late '20s. By 1953 very few major US writers supported Stalin--Dreiser was actually one of the few top writers who attended the last conference of the League of American Writers in 1942, along with, notably, Donald Ogden Stewart and Dashiell Hammett. There are other specifics in this post and previous ones I'd raise questions about, but it's past midnight here, so rather than chasing down each of those rabbits, I will just say that I feel it's important to review the known facts about each individual before making an assumption of guilt or innocence. In some cases a detailed review of a person's record will show that they travelled with the Communist Party for a time but were never a committed member, or were a member but left later for any of a number of factors ranging from personal to ideological reasons. In other cases someone who seems to be a mere dilettante turns out to be more than that. In other cases the evidence is too inconclusive to decide one way or the other, and we have to settle for not knowing. By the time George Orwell died he had compiled a list of 135 writers and other figures he suspected of Communist affiliation or fellow travelling, but he only felt confident enough about the facts to turn 38 of those names over to British intelligence for further review when he was on his deathbed.

128 posted on 04/18/2005 10:33:49 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora

Great post. Thanks.


129 posted on 04/18/2005 10:35:18 PM PDT by Borges
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To: international american

Have there even BEEN 20 "good" films in the last 20 years? I think that that figure is a bit on the high end. :-)


130 posted on 04/18/2005 10:35:25 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Borges

The 60's gave us Dr. Stranglove...The Man Who shot Liberty Valance and several other classics. The 70's actually were better than the 60's, if you discount all the leftist counter culture pablum they put out.


131 posted on 04/18/2005 10:36:29 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: nopardons

I cant think of 10 : )


132 posted on 04/18/2005 10:37:12 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: Borges

Strangelove that is....


133 posted on 04/18/2005 10:37:50 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: international american; Borges; nopardons; Calpernia
And Borges, there havent been more than 20 good films released in the last 20 years.

If you have a list of 20, I'm always looking for new films to watch, so I'd like to hear your picks! :-) Will check back later to see if anyone has any good film recommendations--good night, all!

134 posted on 04/18/2005 10:40:43 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: international american

Technically Dr. Strangelove was a British film wasn't it? Distributed in America by Columbia Pictures. The collapse of the studio system in the 60s resulted in these international productions...wherever the producers could scrape financing together.


135 posted on 04/18/2005 10:41:02 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Balderdash! The '60s had some great films..."THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING,THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING", "THE PAWNBROKER",and "2001; A SPACE ODYESSEY"; to name but three.


136 posted on 04/18/2005 10:43:30 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: international american

'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' was a great summation of Ford's career. It was a farwell to the legend of the West that he had put forth just before a new generation, Leone, Peckinpah would present a different vision.


137 posted on 04/18/2005 10:45:35 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

"Technically Dr. Strangelove was a British film wasn't it?"

No. You might be thinking of the other Peter Sellers films, which were financed here, but produced in England.
Peter Sellers made a number of films for the Boulting Bros
and then for Blake Edwards in the early to mid sixties.


138 posted on 04/18/2005 10:45:39 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: Borges

I am a great fan of Leone, but not Pecker: )


139 posted on 04/18/2005 10:47:21 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: Fedora

As always, a brilliant, cogent post. Now go read your E-mail. :-)


140 posted on 04/18/2005 10:48:41 PM PDT by nopardons
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