and another one gone, and another one gone (updated)
This is getting ridiculous. Everyone with a SAG card should be worried.
At least he made it all the way to 94, unlike the past few who dropped in their 50's. Here's his pedigree.
He was an author, director, actor and producer and Oscar winner.. He also squealed on some of his fellow Hollywood brethen during the McCarthy years. Which, of course, does not take away from his vast talents at all.
Go rent: On The Waterfront
Althea Gibson, the first black tennis star, has died. She was 76.
I think I could just make a hobby out of sitting her reloading Fark every few minutes to see whose turn comes up in the wheel of death.
Comments
Hoolywad will never forgive him. Wait a few years and they will make bogus movies about him the way they still do McCarthy.
Posted by: alfredo stroessner | September 28, 2003 08:39 PM
A friend emailed me that Donald O'Connor had died as well.
Posted by: Ith | September 28, 2003 08:51 PM
Michele, while the era is commonly called the McCarthy years, Kazan testified before the House committee investigating Communist influence in the media. Joe McCarthy had nothing to do with it. And the "blacklist" was action taken by movie magnates, civilians, on their own, without any prompting from the Government.
And, we should remember, that Kazan was proved truthful when the Soviet archives opened up. The Soviets had agents in Hollywood, and were attempting to inflence the American people.
Posted by: Chuck | September 29, 2003 08:28 AM
all these deaths is just the cosmos making up for years of letting these people live on borrowed time.
Posted by: glenn | September 29, 2003 09:27 AM
Chuck's right (except, I think, for the prompting by government). It is also useful to point out that if Kazan had named names of Nazis or Fascists he would have been considered a hero.
Posted by: Ken Summers | September 29, 2003 09:36 AM
How weird. I was looking thru all the weekend listings to see what to record for future viewing because I was going to be out of town all weekend, and On The Waterfront was on TCM this weekend. Now to make some time to watch it this week.
Posted by: Beth M | September 29, 2003 10:05 AM
don't say that. i have a sag card. and i've had a bad enough year, thankyouverymuch.
Posted by: tanya | September 29, 2003 11:34 AM
What's a "SAG card"?
Posted by: TwiddlyBits | September 29, 2003 03:08 PM
Well, if you look really hard, there isn't much difference between an International Socialist(marxist, communist, maoist, Hillary) and a National Socialist (fascist, Nazi, Hillary).
ducks
Posted by: alfredo stroessner | September 29, 2003 10:02 PM