I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN LOSING A JOB IN HOLLYWOOD BECAUSE OF YOUR POLITICS WAS CONSIDERED EVIL: New Hollywood Blacklist: Vote GOP, Lose Gigs.

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And yet Hollywood still cranks out the annual obligatory blacklist picture, even knowing that they’ll bomb at the box office, as Oscar bait, and cable TV fodder. (Last year’s Trumbo, whose titular subject was both pro-Stalin, and during the Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact, pro-Hitler as well, grossed a paltry $7.3 million at the US box office, despite massive amounts of industry hype.)