Do you remember a few years back when Elia Kazan was given a Life Time Achievement Award (I think it was at the Oscars)Anyway, a whole bunch of today’s anti-America crowd refused to applaud (ed harris, et al).
You bet I do. I also recall Abraham Polonsky, one of The Ten, saying he hopes someone shoots Kazan on-stage.
Kazan saw no reason to sacrifice his career for the communists who tried to screw with HIS career early on. I can't find anything to disagree with there.
Yet Hollywood STILL vilifies him while they never seem to have a word to say about the STUDIO HEADS who actually created the Black List--of course, that might get them in trouble with the studios in some tiny way. Thus, they act all heroic until it might cause THEM some grief--precisely what they castigate Kazan and others about.