Dalton Trumbo

Bozell & Graham Column: The 'Trumbo' Dumbo
By Brent Bozell | and By Tim Graham | November 14, 2015 | 8:00 AM EST

The actor Bryan Cranston is now making the interview rounds promoting his new movie lionizing the Hollywood communist Dalton Trumbo. As one should always expect when the Hollywood Left starts talking about the blacklist, the communists were the First Amendment heroes. The movie Trumbo, Cranston told CNN’s Jake Tapper, is about resisting “the lessening of the First Amendment or the oppression of it.”

Ironically, Cranston said these words at the end of a November 9 program that began with a mob at the University of Missouri driving out a president and a chancellor over wild allegations of racist epithets and restroom swastikas with little or no hard evidence.

Before New 'Trumbo' Movie, WashPost Coos Over 'Half-Legend, Half-Saint' Communist Screenwriter
By Tim Graham | October 1, 2015 | 1:22 PM EDT

Longtime Washington Post book reviewer Michael Dirda broke out the superlatives on Thursday for communist screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, and the Bruce Cook biography that served as the basis for a new Trumbo-glorifying movie starring Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, geopolitically).

Dirda oozed “by the time of his death from lung cancer in 1976, Trumbo already seemed half-legend, half-saint: To Cook, he wasn’t just the Oscar-winner who broke the blacklist, he was a man who, no matter what, kept faith with himself, his friends and his ideals.”

Bozell & Graham Column: Still Lying About Hollywood's Communists
By Brent Bozell | and By Tim Graham | January 10, 2015 | 7:46 AM EST

Hollywood is still making movies glorifying communists like blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo as the true libertarians and constitutionalists, no matter how ludicrous it sounds. Luckily, there’s a new antidote to this film’s message, a book called Hollywood Traitors by longtime Human Events editor Allan Ryskind.

LA Times: 'Looking for Headlines, the House Committee on Un-American Activities Called a Host of Showbiz Talent'
By Mike Bates | June 10, 2012 | 9:43 PM EDT

This week the Los Angeles Times's Web site carries the story "Kirk Douglas on the blacklist: Why Hollywood showed so little courage," referencing  the actor's recently released memoir.  The article also appears in today's Chicago Tribune print edition, titled "How Douglas took on blacklist with 'Spartacus.'"  Author Patrick Goldstein reports Douglas is particularly proud of hiring former Communist and unrepentant member of the Hollywood Ten Dalton Trumbo to write the movie "Spartacus."

NYT Celebrates 'Hollywood Ten' Communist Dalton Trumbo, Red Scare 'Hero'
By Clay Waters | September 12, 2007 | 4:23 PM EDT

Communist (and FBI informant) Dalton Trumbo, hero of the Red Scare. That's how New York Times reporter Michael Cieply portrayed him in Tuesday's Arts section story "Voice From the Blacklist, Through Voices of Others."