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The infamous blacklist changed Hollywood. A timely show tracing its history arrives at Skirball
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWest Coast debut of 'Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare' at the Skirball Cultural Center features...
Annalee Newitz on the sci-fi roots of the current "psyop" war
Salon via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoBrainwashing, television manipulation and crowd control Getty Images/Brankospejs The "culture wars"...
Are We Sliding Toward McCarthyism?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAt the height of McCarthyism in the early 1950s, Jewish community councils across the country threw out a group: the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, a...
'Hollywood Ten' were the last people jailed for contempt of Congress
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSteve Bannon could become the first person sent to jail for contempt of Congress since the...
Marsha Hunt, prolific Hollywood actor who was blacklisted, dies at 104
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBy the time she was in her early 30s, Marsha Hunt — tall, elegant and well-spoken — had acted in 52...
‘Fellow Travelers’ Review: A Superbly Paired Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey Give Showtime’s...
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIn the most lacerating episode of Max’s dearly departed comedy The Other Two, the characters attend...
Azzi: Embracing the Rebel Girl: That's who we are
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOn April 19, 1909, in the village of Tabriz, a a 24-year-old American, Howard Baskerville, a recent Princeton graduate who had gone to Persia as a...
‘The Apprentice’ Review: Sebastian Stan Plays Donald Trump in a Docudrama That Nails Everything...
Variety via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoFor its first half, "The Apprentice" is kind of a knockout: the inside look at how Trump evolved...
How the WGA Strike Finds Echoes in the Hollywood Blacklist of the 1950s
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 12 months agoAn exhibit at the Skirball Center reminds striking writers and their supporters of another time the...
'In the Heat of the Night' star Lee Grant on working with Sidney Poitier and being blacklisted by...
Yahoo Movies· 2 years agoThe Oscar-winning actress reflects on the classic 1967 thriller on its 55th anniversary, and...