VLVL: new movie re Hollywood blacklist

[pynchonoid]

PBS Film Tackles Hollywood Blacklist Era 

By BOB THOMAS
The Associated Press
Monday, September 1, 2003; 2:12 PM 

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood's blacklist ended 40 years
ago, but its notoriety simply will not die. 

That dark era of movie history has been treated in
films such as "The Way We Were" (1973), with Barbra
Streisand and Robert Redford, and "The Front" (1976),
with Woody Allen and Zero Mostel. Plays, television
dramas and documentaries also have dealt with the
blacklist, and it has produced shelves of memoirs,
novels and histories. 

Now the U.S. PBS public television service is offering
the two-hour "American Masters" documentary "Arthur
Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without
Sin," airing Wednesday in the United States. 

By coincidence, the following night marks the opening
on a New York stage of "Trumbo," with Nathan Lane
reading from the letters of Oscar-winning screenwriter
Dalton Trumbo, a principal figure in the beginnings of
the blacklist. [...]

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10762-2003Sep1.html>


...And, at a time when soldiers (and civilians) are
dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, Dalton Trumbo's novel,
_Johnny Got His Gun_ is worth reading again, or for
the first time if you haven't already.



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