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Sen. Obama will speak in Grand Junction, Colorado today, September 15, at 11 AM MT. It will be streamed at www.nbc11news.com . This is Grand Junction (which Dalton Trumbo referred to as Shale City in Johnny Got His Gun ), financial hub of the West Slope's energy boom . Mesa County (with GJ as the county seat) and the Western Slope is not Democratic turf. Or it didn't use to be. More- (Cross-posted...
Based on Christopher Trumbo's play about his hell-raising pop, the Spartacus screenwriter sentenced to prison for refusing to play ball with the witch-hunting House Committee on Un-American Activities, Trumbo the movie feels stage-bound, despite its use of archival interviews wi...
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - "The O.C." star Ben McKenzie will be hitting U.S. cinemas this fall in "Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun," the film version of his one-man stage show.
Noting the local release of the hagiographic documentary Trumbo , DCist writes that while he may "not necessarily [be] a household name when it comes to American patriots, novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo earned the title." Oh brother. Perhaps the commenters can debate what it means to be "a patriot," but I suspect that we can all agree that shilling for Joseph Stalin isn't a necessary qualification....
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Trumbo While not necessarily a household name when it comes to American patriots, novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo earned the title. Caught squarely in the House Un-American Activities Committee's crosshairs during the early days of the red scare, Trumbo was one of...
TRUMBO (2007, directed by Peter Askin, 96 minutes, U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC When Elia Kazan won his honorary Oscar back in 1999 there were some who voiced surprise that Sean Penn (among others) refused to applaud for the eighty-nine year old director. If one needs to understand why someone could be holding a grudge [...]
Ever heard of Dalton Trumbo? The mists of history have covered him from public view, but many academic and Hollywood “liberals” still admire the American Stalinist. I have known several Trumbo-trumpeters, and I pity the intellectual dyslexia that misleads decent, freedlom-loving Americans into such pernicious affiliations.
Trumbo A documentary, written by Christopher Trumbo and directed by Peter Askin Filbert Steps Productions, Reno Productions, and Safehouse Pictures, 2007 The blacklist was a time of evil, and no one on either side of it came through it untouched by evil. —Dalton Trumbo, 1970 In 1934, a young writer named Dalton Trumbo decided to try his luck in [...]
Dalton Trumbo's words - thunderous, eloquent, ribald and sometimes even tender - provide the spine and substance of the documentary "Trumbo," about the blacklisted screenwriter.
Trumbo, a documentary film released today, tells the story of blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo’s courage in resolutely refusing to names names before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the darkest days of the anti-Communist witch hunts of the 1940s and 50s. The film has great relevance for today’s troubled times, and serves as a powerful reminder of why principles matter and how the...
As the poster child for the Hollywood Ten during the Anti-Communist hysteria of the late '40s/early '50s, one of the darkest and most unsavory moments in recent American history, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, , A Guy Named Joe) was a passionate, cranky, ill-tempered force of nature, the perfect foil for the mealy and mercenary denizens of the House Un-American Activities Committee....
by Michael Joshua Rowin (June 24, 2008) [An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot .] " Trumbo " tells the eventful story of the best-known name in the Hollywood Ten, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo , with an unsurprising emphasis on the leftist's misadventures with the House Un-American Activities Committee. Famous and well-paid before HUAC sentenced him and nine other fellow Communist sympathizers and members...
The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz B (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
By Steven Zeitchik Writers penning movies about other writers always reminds us a little of Kurt Vonnegut's line about sons writing stories of their fathers -- don't try to do it; it will turn a writer's head to concrete. That...
