March 3
[photo: Sam Falk]
When Dalton Trumbo appeared before the the House Un-American Activities Committee, he refused to give it what it wanted: “an act of political purification hitherto characteristic of fascist states.”
Brian Dennehy stars in a new play about the blacklisted screenwriter. Dennehy is associated with another famous HUAC refusenik, Arthur Miller, having played Willy Loman in the most recent revival of Death of a Salesman. Here’s the NY Times’ file on Miller (from which the image above is taken). And here’s The Guardian’s.
- 3 03 2005 - 08:28
