Friday, June 25, 2010
better red than dead
I love theater. Anyway, this is an actor doing the House of UnAmerican Actitivities testimony of this blacklisted comedian named Zero Mostel, who is in this movie The Front with Woody Allen.
The other night I watched The Front. It stars Woody Allen but he didn't direct it. The Front is called The Front because Woody Allen's character, a cashier in a bar, gets tapped by his blacklisted writer friend to sell his scripts because the blacklisted friend can't sell his writing anymore because of McCarthyism and because the blacklisted friend is a Communist. Apparently the director and some other people involved were blacklisted, like Zero Mostel, who has a really uncomfortable character to play. It was made in the 70s so it has that nice color. It was funny but also educational and sad.
Woody Allen has no problem getting together with beautiful women, does he?
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that movie sounds great. it's funny how woody allen has no problem getting with hot women. seriously? her?
ReplyDeletei read this book about the blacklist and long time ago and i thought it was really great. it was fiction and more about adultery, but great. and i'd like to reread it or read more by that author, but i have NO IDEA what it's called. that seems to be a theme.
oh, and i've only really seen the producers, but i don't understand why zero's so famous.
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