Greg gboozell at juno.com
Jim Farmelant wrote:
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> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 11:35:37 -0400 Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com>
> writes:
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>> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 09:59:40 -0400 "Dennis Perrin"
>> <dperrin at comcast.net>
>> writes:
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>>> My mini-obit:
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>> <http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2008/04/his-toupee-will-live-on.html>
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>>> Dennis
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>> Michael Wilson who co-wrote (with Rod Serling)
>> the screenplay for "Planet of the Apes" was blacklisted in the
>> 1950s for being a Communist.
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> And I forgot to point out that the screenplay
> for "Spartacus" was written by Dalton Trumbo,
> based on the novel by Howard Fast.
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> Arch-reactionary film actor, Charlton Heston,
> owes whatever artistic reputation that he
> had as an actor, in part, due to the work
> of writers who were commies or ex-commies.
> The ironies concerning this are rich indeed.
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