Dalton Trumbo

Blacklisted 'Roman Holiday' Screenwriter Finally Awarded Credit

Posted 12.20.2011

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The Writers Guild of America (WGA) announced Monday that it would officially restore screenwriting credit on 'Roman Holiday' to blacklisted Oscar-winn...

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R.I.P. Christopher Trumbo: The Hollywood Ten and the Power of Words

Francine Hardaway | Posted 05.25.2011

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Francine Hardaway

The Hollywood Ten era was an over-reaction to a threat, the threat of Communism. I remembered it all on Saturday night, when Christopher Trumbo died.

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The Rom Houben Tragedy And The Case For Active Euthanasia

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jacob M. Appel

If one believes that the prevention of suffering may sometimes justify the withdrawal or withholding of care, then the very fact that Houben was conscious for twenty-three years might call more convincingly for such action.

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American Masters Toasts Dalton Trumbo

James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Sims

Trumbo is a reminder that logic does not always factor into the public consciousness.

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How Recent Documentary Films May Have Paved the Way to Embrace the Figure of Barack Obama

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

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Penelope Andrew

To look at the escalating popularity of the documentary film is to enter an interesting, complicated, and collectively psychoanalytic exploration of the role of desire and dreams in a time of mass confusion.

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Fonda, Sutherland, Streep Echo Trumbo & Brecht: FTA (1972) and Theater of War (2008)

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

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Penelope Andrew

Parker, Brecht and Trumbo may have passed on, but anti-war and anti-poverty spirit continue in the genre of the documentary as practiced by the soothsayer Michael Moore.

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