Hollywood
Sony emails show Hollywood still has a long way to go on racial equality
December 23, 2014A lot of the focus with this ongoing story has been centered on North Korea, and the fate of "The Interview," yet the emails between those in power at the company have, once again, shone light...
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Hollywood Left turns out to support Howard Zinn’s new book
November 24, 2014Rocker Tom Morello brought the house down at an event celebrating the publication of the anniversary edition of "Voices of a People's History of the United States."
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Actress Lauren Bacall, who protested Hollywood blacklist, dies at 89
August 14, 2014"Stardom isn't a career," Bacall once observed, "it's an accident." What a lucky accident it turned out to be.
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Ayn Rand, U.S. government, and censoring of Hollywood dissent
March 6, 2014In Dennis Broe's "Film Noir, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood," there is an attempt to categorize the film noir movies of different time periods.
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Today in black history: Actor Sidney Poitier born
February 20, 2013Born to Bahamian parents in Miami, Fla., while they were selling produce from their island farm, Poitier began life in humble working-class circumstances, which he never forgot.
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