Elia Kazan and ultra-purism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Mar 23 07:53:01 PST 1999


Peter Kilander wrote:


>Peter - not afraid to seem militanter-than-thou or even (gasp) purist,
>especially after knocking back a few. By the way, Christopher Hitchens is
>scheduled to appear on HBO on Dennis Miller this Friday, March 26. The topic
>is skepticism. Maybe he'll toss out the dirty word "socialism" as Beatty
>did. According to Feed magazine: "[Hitchens'] Comedy Central gig ended after
>he announced, during a live broadcast, that the Reagan's were 'a pretty
>fucking weird family.'" I bet he swears once or twice.

Actually a pal of mine accompanied Hitchens to that event - it was during the 1992 Dem convention, I think. Much alcohol was consumed by both of them beforehand, and CH continued to tipple once in the studio. He used several variants of "fuck" during the first segment. The host warned him to stop. He continued in the second segment and was booted off the show and banned from the network forever.

Doug



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