Anthony Slide on HOLLYWOOD’S BLACKLISTS: A POLITICAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY
Anthony Slide on Reynold Humphries‘ Hollywood’s Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History:
"The entire history of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) is well recorded. The author explains the origins of the Blacklist, dating the story from Roosevelt’s election in 1932 and the rise of what he describes as the Liberal-Communist Alliance. The Alliance quickly ended with the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, but the damage had been done to the liberal elements in Hollywood. They had, and continued to develop, a history. It is all here: Upton Sinclair’s running for the governorship of California in 1934, the rise of the Guilds and unions and their struggles for recognition, and, of course, Hollywood’s [...]
by Andre Soares | December 18, 2008
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Tags: Anthony Slide, Authors, Books, Hollywood's Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History, House Un-American Activities Committee, Politics, Reynold Humphries, Upton Sinclair
CELEBRITIES IN THE 1930 CENSUS: Q&A with Author Allan R. Ellenberger
As it says on the cover, Allan R. Ellenberger’s Celebrities in the 1930 Census (McFarland, 2008, US$49.95) is a compilation of household data — as collected by 1930 census takers — of more than 2,000 "U.S. actors, musicians, scientists, athletes, writers, politicians and other public figures." (The woman in the photo is aviatrix Amelia Earhart.)
The book, of course, doesn’t offer any saucy insights into the lives of those people. Instead, it’s a straightforward amalgam of un-dramatic — but important — information for researchers. (Though non-researchers may find the myriad listings addictive as well.)
For instance, when I wrote the Ramon Novarro (above right) biography Beyond Paradise, I didn’t have access to the 1930 census, which became part of the public record [...]
by Andre Soares | February 27, 2008
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Tags: Allan Ellenberger, Books, Celebrities in the 1930 Census, Florence Vidor, Interviews, Katharine Hepburn, Marie Dressler, McFarland, Ramon Novarro, Upton Sinclair
Scripter Award 2008
2008 USC Scripter Awards
2008 Scripter Award winners: Feb. 18, 2007
("*" denotes the winner)
No Country for Old Men, which stars Josh Brolin (above), Javier Bardem, and Tommy Lee Jones, has won nearly every U.S. critics’ awards this season. The Coens’ adapted screenplay is also in the running for this year’s Writers Guild award. Literary Achievement Award recipient Steven Zaillian happens to be the only winner of three Scripters: Awakenings (1990), Schindler’s List (1993), and Gangs of New York (2002).
Atonment — screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on the novel by Ian McEwan
Into the Wild — Screenplay by Sean Penn, based on the book by Jon Krakauer
* No Country for Old Men — Screenplay by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, based [...]
by Andre Soares | February 10, 2008
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Tags: Authors, Christopher Hampton, Cormac McCarthy, Film Awards, Ian McEwan, James Vanderbilt, Joel and Ethan Coen, Jon Krakauer, Josh Brolin, No Country for Old Men, Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Graysmith, Scripter Awards, Scripter Awards 2008, Sean Penn, Steven Zaillian, There Will Be Blood, Upton Sinclair, Zodiac
