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To: SAMS
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.

16 posted on 11/18/2007 9:30:53 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (I'm starting to think I need a new party)
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To: Darkwolf377

It’s real easy for that self-righteous bunch to act all high and mighty, and say they would never do what he did, all the while knowing that you they would never be put to the test. But I would bet my left kidney, that if the shoe were on their foot - and they could loose their career and livelyhood, they would fold like a cheap tent.


17 posted on 11/19/2007 5:09:21 AM PST by SAMS ("I may look harmless, but I raised a U.S. MARINE!" Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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