great story and very well acted. I wouldn’t have thought the story of the Hollywood blacklist would have been so interesting. This truly was a dark time in our country’s history.
OT: just finishing watching the movie Trumbo
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Agree....eyre parallel to our times.
I read "Johnny Got His Gun" a long time ago. As I recall it was good. One image that sticks in my mind is that of someone in the hospital (a soldier injured in war I think) with a tube coming out of him and another tube going into him and it was the same tube. Or I think I remember that, although it sounds strange now.
I read a biography of Steve Martin once long ago and as I recall it said that he once dated Dalton Trumbo's daughter.
Johnny Got His Gun was a chilling, anti-war novel written in the 1930s and which became a popular anti-Vietnam War novel in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As a 20 year old facing the prospect of the draft, I was stunned after finishing it.
The fact that men who had not raised a finger to defend this country during the war got away with attacking men who did was shocking- and indefensible. Did we learn anything from it? I have my doubts.
It could be. Maybe I'm mixing them up. I've read Catch-22 too. Catch-22 was great. I loved the wordplay. Here's a bit from Catch-22.
"The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn’t earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major’s father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county."
