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TRUMBO — Jay Roach Interview

November 14, 2015 By Leave a Comment

TRUMBO — Jay Roach Interview

The fear-based manipulation as seen in TRUMBO is something that its director, Jay Roach, doesn’t see as ending with the demise of the Black List. It was one of the last things we talked about on November 12, 2015, but it may be the crux of the reason that Roach wanted to make his film about the… Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award, anti-Semitism. Communism, Black List, Dalton Trumbo, exodus, fear based manipulation., Hedda Hopper, Hollywood Ten, HUAC, humanist, Humphrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas, Lee Grant, Otto Preminger, SPARTACUS

I Said Yes to Everything — Lee Grant talks boundaries, fairness, and the roots of chutzpah.

July 29, 2015 By Leave a Comment

I Said Yes to Everything — Lee Grant talks boundaries, fairness, and the roots of chutzpah.

Lee Grant has one of the world’s great laughs, rich, throaty, and full of the elan that only someone who has lived such a storied life can give it.  She was nominated for an Oscar™ for her very first screen appearance in 1951’s DETECTIVE STORY. She went on to win that award in 1975 for… Read More »

Tagged With: Arnie Manhoff, Bernie Sanders, Blacklist, Brooke Adams, Dalton Trumbo, Dinah Manhoff, Elektra, family hour, Fay, Freedom of Expression Award, House UnAmerican Activities Committee, HUAC, Joe MCarthy, Joe Welch, John Garfield, Johnny Carson, Joseph Papp, Lee Grant, Lila Kedrova, Melvyn Douglas, NBC, Peyton Place, Pussy Riot. Vladimir Putin, Ring Lardner, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, SFJFF, TELL ME A RIDDLE, THE FRONT, Tillie Olsen, Vaclav Havel, Velvet Revolution, Zero Mostel

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