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Hollywood's Longest Blacklist By David Horowitz FrontPageMagazine.com | February 10, 1997 At a time when its latest heroes are a fascist (Eva Peron) and a misogynist (Larry Flynt), it is perhaps not surprising that Hollywood is experiencing a crisis of conscience in finding a place in its heart for a patriot like Elia Kazan. Last month, the Hollywood establishment, in the form of the American Film Institute and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, denied Kazan a lifetime achievement award, thereby continuing to shun one of its most accomplished artists. Even the subsequent defenses of the filmmaker that appeared in...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT 1:12 PM EST RUSH: Now, I mentioned in the last hour that there was a story in the New York Times yesterday, and I read it, and it did not -- I mean it stood out, but I didn't think enough of it to even print it to bring it to you to discuss on the radio, and I realized there's a story in the Washington Times today that references the New York Times story of yesterday and it jogged my memory, and I almost feel like I need to apologize to you all for not bringing this...

ILOILO CITY, Philippines, February 26 (IslamOnline.net) - The U.S. threatened on Thursday, February 26, it might place the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on its list of terrorist organizations should it fail to ink a peace accord with the Philippine government. U.S. Charge d'affaires Joseph Mussomeli said they are continually assessing whether or not blacklist MILF alongside organizations like the Communist Party of the Philippines and the Abu Sayyaf. He pointed out that "if a genuine peace accord is reached ... then that would suggest strongly that there is very little reason to put them (MILF) on" the list for...

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25 — Mel Gibson's provocative new film, "The Passion of the Christ," is making some of Hollywood's most prominent executives uncomfortable in ways that may damage Mr. Gibson's career. Hollywood is a close-knit world, and friendships and social contact are critical in the making of deals and the casting of movies. Many of Hollywood's most prominent figures are also Jewish. So with a furor arising around the film, along with Mr. Gibson's reluctance to distance himself from his father, who calls the Holocaust mostly fiction, it is no surprise that Hollywood — Jewish and non-Jewish — has...

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, the principals of DreamWorks, have privately expressed anger over the film, said an executive close to the two men. The chairmen of two other major studios said they would avoid working with Mr. Gibson because of "The Passion of the Christ" and the star's remarks surrounding its release. Neither of the chairmen would speak for attribution, but as one explained: "It doesn't matter what I say. It'll matter what I do. I will do something. I won't hire him. I won't support anything he's part of. Personally that's all I...

I didn't see anyone else post this. It seems important that many of Hollywoods Jewish leaders seem to be trying to make Mel Gibson suffer for doing this great film. Maybe Mel can start a Christian revolution in Hollywood. February 26, 2004 New Film May Harm Gibson's Career By SHARON WAXMAN OS ANGELES, Feb. 25 — Mel Gibson's provocative new film, "The Passion of the Christ," is making some of Hollywood's most prominent executives uncomfortable in ways that may damage Mr. Gibson's career. Hollywood is a close-knit world, and friendships and social contact are critical in the making of deals...

STUDIO chiefs in Hollywood have pledged to black-ban Mel Gibson for his film The Passion of The Christ, which earned more than $637,000 when it opened in Australia on Wednesday. The chairmen of two Hollywood studios said they would avoid working with Gibson because of the film, which he directed and financed, and his comments surrounding its release, the New York Times reported yesterday. One of the studio chairmen, who asked for anonymity, told the newspaper: "It doesn't matter what I say. It'll matter what I do. I will do something. I won't hire him. I won't support anything he's...

<p>Never mind "The Passion of the Christ" will likely prove a hit, Mel taking a hit from Hollywood types.</p> <p>One tells the New York Daily News he's all but a marked man. Directors will avoid him. And one goes so far as to say audiences will move on from him. No more "Lethal Weapon" sequels. No more "Signs."</p>

KHARTOUM: The United States has agreed to lift its sanctions on Sudan and remove the country from its list of nations sponsoring terrorism, independent Al Rai Al Aam daily reported Saturday. Reporting from New York, the newspaper quoted Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail as saying “lifting the sanctions and taking the Sudan’s name from the list of terrorism have been agreed upon and what remains now is the timing of making those steps.” The agreement was reached after meetings Ismail held with several US officials, including Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Walter Kansteiner, the newspaper reported. On Friday, the...

<p>The Charles Cullen case is spurring legislation, in both Washington and Trenton, to protect employers who give out honest, though negative, job references.</p> <p>New Jersey's two senators as well as several Assembly members in Trenton said they are moving forward with efforts to protect employers who say previous employees were fired, or performed poorly on the job.</p>

“Bigot,” “radical,” “extremist,” “Alabama North,” and of course “homophobe,” words used regularly by the Canadian media to incite “hatred, ” against what has become the most downtrodden of all “identifiable groups” — the Canadian conservative.  Not only are the names personally hurtful they are used to marginalize Canadian conservatives, by the use of slander and lies. This full meal deal of vitriolic name-calling was published in a recent Calgary Herald column, where one writer has created a “black list” of conservatives refusing to toe the  social-Liberal party line.  So who’s discriminating now? If ever there was an “identifiable group” worthy...

Democrats from Bill Clinton to Howard Dean have complained that conservative talk radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly have grown too powerful. Now an effort has begun to drive one of them off the air, according to the manager of a station that carries Hannity's show in New Mexico. Bob Clark, station manager of KRSN in Los Alamos, described to Hannity on Tuesday a series of threatening phone calls to his station and its advertisers that were part of a bid to get Clark to drop the top-rated talker's broadcast. Clark said it began with a call...

Does anyone have a link to the so- called NRA enemies list? I've been looking all over for it.

Los Angeles - Most blacklists are designed to intimidate. But thousands of Americans are clamouring to join one drawn up by the National Rifle Association (NRA). Actor Dustin Hoffman was so dismayed to find his name missing from the NRA's shadowy 19-page list of United States companies, celebrities, and news organisations seen as lending support to anti-gun policies that he wrote to the powerful pro-gun lobby group begging to be included. "As a supporter of comprehensive anti-gun safety measures, I was deeply disappointed when I discovered my name was not on the list," Hoffman wrote in a letter to the...

Last Update: 11/09/2003 17:57 EU agrees to put Hamas on outlawed terror groups list By News Agencies Palestinian gunmen in Gaza on Wednesday attending the funeral for two men who were killed earlier that day in an IDF attack. (AP) The European Union moved Thursday to increase pressure on Hamas by adding the entire organization to the EU terrorist list, but appeared to stop short of a U.S. crackdown on European-based charities that allegedly funnel money to the Islamic militant group. Five days after EU foreign ministers - reacting to the suicide bus bombing in Jerusalem on August 19 that...

The United States is a "dumb puppy that has big teeth," according to American actor Johnny Depp. I say we should make certain this scumbucket never works in America again. That's right. I mean it's time to bring back the Hollywood blacklist. In fact, I'd very much like to start compiling the blacklist right now – and I welcome your suggestions for additions. I'm sure I'm missing some real anti-American zealots. Depp may be the latest offender, but he's such a lightweight on the intellectual scale that he hardly deserves to be first. So, let's reserve that position for...

The Right should not be joining the Left in the blacklisting of MCI. Candidates and groups on the left have long made attacks on corporate America a staple of their populist appeals. Whether it is Jesse Jackson shaking down corporations for minority contracts, Ralph Nader blasting big business on environmental issues, or the perennial management-labor disputes, the battle between the left and business interests remains at the forefront of American politics. What is new, however, is conservatives taking up the cause. Washington Post columnist James Glassman, former U.S. Congressman and MSNBC commentator Joe Scarborough, and Citizens Against Government Waste, all...

Nugent sues Muskegon officials over concert cancelation The Associated Press 8/21/2003, 7:11 p.m. ET DETROIT (AP) — Michigan rocker Ted Nugent filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday, claiming organizers who canceled a June performance wrongly accused him of making racist comments. Nugent claims that accusations made by city officials and others, and the cancelation of the June 30 concert, damaged his reputation and career, according to a statement issued by his attorney. The lawsuit names the City of Muskegon; Mayor Stephen Warmington; City Manager Bryon Mazade; Meridian Entertainment, the concert's promoter, and others as defendants. "In a world of...

WE'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN YOU'RE BEING CENSORED By Ann Coulter Earlier this year, the Screen Actors Guild (news - web sites) issued a statement lamenting that "those in the public eye should suffer professionally for having the courage to give voice to their views. Even a hint of the blacklist must never again be tolerated in this nation." Feeling the lash of a right-wing blacklist, the Dixie Chicks (news - web sites) recently played to an adoring, sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden. Ann Coulter   But earlier this week, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., denounced a radio corporation's decision...