Who is going to speak out?
Thats the disturbing question being debated this week in response to the discordant noises from Washington.
The results of the 2024 presidential election imparted the message to Hollywood thatcelebrity voiceswerent resonating.
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Voters were searching elsewhere for authoritative opinion.
Or the cancellation of security protection for figures ranging from Gen. Mark Milley to Mike Pompeo.
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Even theWall Street Journalexpressed alarm this week about the consequences of revenge politics.
To some in Hollywood, todays rhetoric reflects a throwback to the epoch of the backlist decades ago.
Those who publicly defied the mandates of that moment faced job loss and even exile.
Yet one of those ultimately exiled was William Morris himself who once had fostered a Soviet-American Friendship organization.
By the late 1950s, Hollywood caved under the pressure and careers were destroyed, movies canceled.
Walter Winchell screamed Wake Up America on his top-rated show.
I was that reporter.
Who are these self-appointed crusaders putting names on lists?
Why dont you expose them?
Nancys name was removed.
At stake at the time were jobs, not potential hit jobs.
