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Elia Kazan Dead at 94...
But just like Strom Thurmond and Leni Riefenstahl, he tainted his long life and talent with support of repugnant politics - the vicious slanders of Joseph McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Committee.
I'll paraphrase George Orwell's criticism of Salvador Dali.....
"One ought to be able to hold in one's head simultaneously the two facts that [Kazan was] a good [director] and a disgusting human being...
The first thing that we demand of a wall is that it stand up....and yet even the best wall in the world deserves to be pulled down if it surrounds a concentration camp." Benefit of Clergy, Some Notes on Salvador Dali.
I'll paraphrase George Orwell's criticism of Salvador Dali.....
"One ought to be able to hold in one's head simultaneously the two facts that [Kazan was] a good [director] and a disgusting human being...
The first thing that we demand of a wall is that it stand up....and yet even the best wall in the world deserves to be pulled down if it surrounds a concentration camp." Benefit of Clergy, Some Notes on Salvador Dali.