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The New Blacklist: A Book Excerpt

November 1, 2007 - 12:45 am
David Thomson
2007-11-01 04:04:05

“Still I am sure this new form of Blacklist exists”

New form of blacklist exists? I strongly recommend that Roger L. Simon reads Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony’s Long Romance with the Left by Ronald and Allis Radosh, and Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced The American Flim Industry In The 1930s And 1940s by Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley. There is absolutely nothing new about the leftist establishment destroying the careers of those refusing to embrace their agenda! Simon himself would unlikely have become a screen writer of note if he had earlier been perceived as a “tool of the right-wing reactionaries.” Ron Silver is probably also on the same tacitly understood blacklist. They have, whether they realized it or not, burned their bridges behind them.