6. "... compelled them to testify against their friends. Today,
being a socialist isn't a crime..."
and "[John] Wayne was a founding member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a group dedicated to
rooting out communists
Well, one good thing about this polemic....
they're saying what I've said all along....socialist, communist....all the same.
a. "....the victims of the Blacklist are long gone (Trumbo died in 1976), and memories of that bleak, ignoble era..."
Let's see what the poor victims had to go through.
When anti-communism took its toll in Hollywood, the blacklisting took the “deadly” form of not having ones name in the credits, or living in Paris, or not being able to sell a teleplay for as much as three years. This for folks who had no problem with Ukrainian farmers and their children eating their shoes.
b. From “blacklist survivor” Norma Barzman about her ‘exile’ in Paris:
“We had
dinner with Picasso every Tuesday night when we were at our country house in Provence. It was hard, but it was the time of my life.” (Dennis Hamilton, “Keeper of the Flame: A Blacklist Survivor,”
Los Angeles Times, October 3, 2000)
The horror, the horror.
c. “Ten Hollywood scribblers who
subscribed to an ideology responsible for murder by the millions refused to admit their membership in the Communist Party to a House Committee. All they had to do was ‘fess up. But they felt they had the right not to tell the truth, so they were briefly jailed for contempt.” (Ann Coulter, “
Treason,” p.77)
BTW, when the ‘Ten’ claimed a First Amendment right not to answer the House’s questions,
the Supreme Court refused to even hear the case. (
THE SUPREME COURT: The Hollywood Ten)
d. "At the 1957 Academy
Awards,
Robert Rich won the Oscar for best original story of 1956 for
The Brave One(1956). Rich was not present to accept the
award, which was accepted on his behalf by
Jesse Lasky Jr.of the Screen Writers Guild."
Dalton Trumbo - Biography - IMDb
Of course, 'Robert Rich' was none other than the 'suffering' Dalton Trumbo....the poor, poor "victim" whose "suffering" amounted to having to write under a nom de plume....for enormous paychecks.
The horror.....the horror.