The Hollywood Blacklist Myth : November 2021

Does anyone even watch this show anymore?

Is it possible? An actor with principles?

John Cleese decided to cancel himself and call off a planned appearance at Cambridge University after a fellow attendee was "blacklisted" for doing an impersonation of Adolf Hitler.

Taking to Twitter ahead of his planned appearance, Cleese, who is a Cambridge alumnus, noted that he was getting ahead of being "blacklisted" by calling off his appearance after art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon was blacklisted by Cambridge Union President Keir Bradwell for doing a mocking rant as Hitler to make a point in a debate about whether or not "good taste" exists.

"I was looking forward to talking to students at the Cambridge Union this Friday, but I hear that someone there has been blacklisted for doing an impersonation of Hitler," the 82-year-old "Monty Python" and "Fawlty Towers" comedian noted. "I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does."

In a follow-up tweet, Cleese added: "I apologise to anyone at Cambridge who was hoping to talk with me, but perhaps some of you can find a venue where woke rules do not apply."

According to Variety, the Union, whose motto is "Defending Free Speech Since 1815," boasts more than 70,000 members worldwide and is the oldest debating society in the world and the largest student society in Cambridge.

In a statement provided to the outlet, Bradwell said: "We were really looking forward to hosting John here. It would have been a really fantastic event and our members are really excited to hear from him. The documentary he is making is extremely topical. We very much hope that we will be able to host him at some point – he’s the kind of speaker that would thrive with our audience and in our room."

Bradwell noted that he is trying to work with Cleese to get him to reconsider his decision not to appear.

According to The Guardian, it’s fitting that Cleese would take issue with the situation given that he was reportedly appearing at the university along with the team making a documentary series involving him about cancel culture titled "Cancel Me."

The BBC reports that Graham-Dixon said he was trying to "underline the utterly evil nature of Hitler." However, he subsequently apologized for the impersonation.

The Compassion of Hollywood's social scientists

Kyle Rittenhouse mocked by Hollywood after tearful display on stand: 'Terrible f---ing actor'

The teen is accused of killing two people and wounding a third during police brutality protests in Kenosha last year

By Julius Young | Fox News

November 11

Hollywood is speaking out over a video showing Kyle Rittenhouse crying in court while testifying in his murder trial.

On Wednesday, the 18-year-old broke down on the stand in a Kenosha, Wisconsin, circuit court as he recounted the August 2020 shooting that left two people dead and one injured during last year’s Black Lives Matter protests.

"Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer. The End," actress, Rosanna Arquette wrote on Twitter, while actor Dave Bautista fumed, "F--k that kid!"

The video, which shows Rittenhouse crying hysterically, also drew a response from Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James who pressed send on a tweet asking Rittenhouse, "What tears?????"

"I didn’t see one," James added. "Man knock it off! That boy ate some lemon heads before walking into court."

Rittenhouse is charged with two counts of homicide, one count of attempted homicide, recklessly endangering safety and illegal possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18.

He was 17 when he and at least one friend said they traveled to the Wisconsin city from Illinois to protect local businesses and provide medical aid after two nights of businesses being looted and set on fire.

Others in Tinseltown also expressed their reactions to Rittenhouse’s display as he recounted the fatal shootings, which his lawyers have argued repeatedly that their client was acting in self-defense, and fired his semi-automatic rifle because he was being chased or faced with a gun.

"This is how the first take of a crying scene can look. Weeks of anxiety to push the tears out and you come up empty," actor Kevin Zegers tweeted.

"Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi (Below) wrote: "Time for America to redefine what it means to be a "promising young man,"

while in a since-deleted tweet, "Godfather of Harlem" star Vincent D’Onofrio (Below) said, "Personally I’ve never seen acting like that from you but yes some less experienced actors."

Actor George Takei (below) slammed the presiding honor of Kenosha County Circut, Judge Bruce Schroeder, as "deplorable" for cautioning prosecutors for their questions toward Rittenhouse.

"If you want to see how justice often leans hard toward privilege, watch the judge in the Rittenhouse case," the "Star Trek" performer wrote. "A deplorable example, indeed."

"All you need to know. What a s—t show," tweeted comedian Brian Guest (below) of Schroeder’s cell phone ringing during the trial, playing the Greenwood song "I’m Proud to Be an American."

Kyle Rittenhouse faces up to life in prison if convicted on the highest charge.

1947, Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he was to big and to powerful for the party to silence

John Garfield (Jacob Julius Garfinkle) was a committed Communist until he had to admit it in public.

McCarthy was right

Ring Lardner Jr. (far left) with eight others of the Hollywood 10 charged with contempt of Congress in 1947.

Good point

Exactly

...and Netflix caved

The problems we have with the Hollywood left

The problem we have with the Hollywood left is it's the notion that accepting differences is no longer good enough, you have to be complicit in them. The problem we have with the Hollywood left it's the notion that any differing opinion is a threat to your very way of existence but never the opposite. The problem we have with the Hollywood left is the blatant hypocrisy of claiming to care about democracy well on abashedly striving to take control of every step of the political process. The problem we have with the Hollywood left is the notion that any idea or opinion outside of your own ideology is morally repugnant and therefore needs to be silenced. The problem we have with the Hollywood left is the notion that your goals must be achieved using everyone resources regardless on whether they agree. The problem we have with the Hollywood left is their supporting of rights situationally when convenient and the outright rejection of those rights when it's in it's the inconvenient for you. The problem we have with the Hollywood left isthat somehow you know what's best for me enough to allow the government to make that choice for me The problem we have with the Hollywood left it's their failure to see the irony in labeling anyone different than yourself as an extremist or a fundamentalist. Originally written by Jason Blood. Edited for this page.

Just because someone’s name appeared in Red Channels, that doesn’t mean they were blacklisted. It just means there name appeared in Red Channels.

Just because a person said they were blacklisted doesn’t mean they were. Many people in Hollywood have lied about being blacklisted over the years.

If a person was actually blacklisted…and not many were actually blacklisted….it was the studios and TV sponsors who blacklisted them. Not the United States federal government.

If a person claims the blacklist ruined their career, they should be able to prove they had a career before the blacklist.

For the most part, front organizations assumed the character of either a mass or membership organization or a paper organization. Both solicited and used names of prominent persons. Literally hundreds of groups and organizations have either been infiltrated or organized primarily to accomplish the purposes of promoting the interests of the Soviet Union in the United States, the promotion of Soviet war and peace aims, the exploitation of Negroes in the United States, work among foreign-language groups, and to secure a favorable viewpoint toward the Communists in domestic, political, social, and economic issues. The first requisite for front organizations is an idealistic sounding title. Hundreds of such organizations have come into being and have gone out of existence when their true purposes have become known or exposed while others with high-sounding names are continually springing up. J. Edgar Hoover on the subject of Communist front organizations. March 26, 1947