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scotpens
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 Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 4:57 pm Post subject: Re: TOS season 3 episode 21 - The Cloud Minders |
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| Bud Brewster wrote: | The young lady's character is called Droxine — but I think a more fitting name would be . . . Anorexia.  |
She is a bit on the skinny side, isn't she? Besides, Droxine sounds like a brand of eye drops. |
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Bud Brewster
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2022 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Pow wrote: | Actor Jeff Corey who portrayed Plasus leader of the Sky City was a highly respected actor & teacher.
Jeff was blacklisted for refusing to name alleged communists in the entertainment industry for the House Un-American Activities Committee. |
I know this is a silly idea, but what if all the actors etc. who were questioned by that dumb-ass committee did something like this.
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Committee Chair: Can you name all the Hollywood people who are communists?
Witness: No.
Committee Chair: No? You refuse to answer the question?
Witness: I just mean it would take too long.
Committee Chair: Why?
Witness: Hell, because we're ALL communists — the whole damn industry! So, go ahead and blacklist all of us . . . . and then see how long the public will let you assholes stay in office when there are no movies or TV shows being made! 
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scotpens
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Bud Brewster wrote: | Committee Chair: Can you name all the Hollywood people who are communists?
Witness: No.
Committee Chair: No? You refuse to answer the question?
Witness: I just mean it would take too long.
Committee Chair: Why?
Witness: Hell, because we're ALL communists — the whole damn industry! So, go ahead and blacklist all of us . . . . and then see how long the public will let you assholes stay in office when there are no movies or TV shows being made! |
Funny bit, but there were relatively few genuine "card-carrying Communists" in the American film industry.
Furthermore, the Un-American Activities Committee didn't actually blacklist anyone -- at least, not directly. The movie industry itself created and perpetuated the blacklist -- although the climate of "Reds under the beds" paranoia was certainly fueled by the HUAC investigations and the subsequent publication of Red Channels.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Channels |
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Bud Brewster
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Right, what I jokingly suggested ignores the true nature of the situation, as you described. That's why I started with, "I know this is a silly idea, but . . . "
But it just struck me as a whimsical way for all those poor filmmakers to avoid refusing to testify, while at the same time not seriously implicating anybody.
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