The Allan H. Ryskind book “Hollywood Traitors” (available at Amazon.com) documents how the House Committee on Un-American Activities uncovered Stalinist infiltration of Hollywood and forced the studios to clean house. Ryskind, the son of famous Hollywood screen writer Morrie Ryskind, “names names” and identifies pro-Soviet movies. Ryskind, who discusses such figures as Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller, will be appearing at a February 24, 2015, press conference on “America’s Enemies in Hollywood Then and Now” at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The news conference will examine how the Muslim Brotherhood lobby has been manipulating Hollywood’s portrayal of Islamic terrorism in recent years. It will also urge Congress to bring back a committee on internal security. Go to www.usasurvival.org.
I recall back in the 60s how I used to read and enjoy his father Morrie Ryskind's opinion pieces which were carried by the LA Times.
During the so-called Black List period several of these writers were still working but under assumed names. One of the worst of them, Dalton Trumbo, was brought in out of the cold when Kirk Douglas hired him as the primary screenwriter for Spartacus (1960) and gave him screen credit. So we wound up with a hard line Stalinist bringing to the screen a movie based on a book by another Marxist, Howard Fast. As to Douglas, I suppose that tells us a lot about his politics, too.
Btw, the movie version of the slave revolt led by Spartacus was just as fanciful as most Hollywood historical treatments, though combined with a huge dose of Marxist ideology. Thanks, Kirk.
Allahu Akbar" is Arabic for "Nothing to see here"~~Mark Steyn explaining the reaction of Obama, Hollande, et. al., to Muslim terror attacks.
~75 years later and it's the Hollywood Patriots who are the minority.
** Rich Lowry, Nov 30, 2014 on “Meet the Press” Sunday, National Review editor
Stop trying to make the Ferguson protests something they weren’t. And, just as importantly, stop trying to make Michael Brown, the man shot to death during a fight with police Office Darren Wilson in August, something he wasn’t.
“If you look at the most credible evidence, the lessons are really basic ... don’t rob a convenience store. Don’t fight with a policeman when he stops you and try to take his gun. And when he yells at you to stop, just stop.”
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