Harry Belafonte Obituary: Harry Belafonte's Never-Ending Rebellion
"How do you end racism in the midst of a place that is so morally collapsed? How do you end poverty in a place so spiritually poor?"
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An interview with Larry Ceplair, author of <em>The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist–Seventy-Five Years Later</em>: The biggest consequence 'was censorship and self-censorship, not officially, but unofficially'
Immense pressure was exerted on individuals under conditions of the Cold War, anti-communist hysteria to “name names.” The witch-hunters were implacable.
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Screenwriter and blacklist victim Walter Bernstein dies at 101
Screenwriter and blacklist victim Walter Bernstein dies at 101 Bernstein worked on the screenplays for dozens of films, including Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948, with Burt Lancaster and Joan Fontaine), That Kind of Woman (1959, with Sophia Loren), The Wonderful Country (1959, with Robert Mitchum), A Breath of Scandal (1960), The Magnificent Seven (1960), Miss Evers’ Boys (1997, about the infamous “Tuskegee Study”). Screenwriter/producer Walter Bernstein (right) following a June 7...
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