treasure trove of character actors

Gough is one of those actors whom I cannot put a face to. I remember reading an interview with Marc Lawrence years ago where he said Wayne welcomed him to the TRUE GRIT set after too long a time. When Lawrence was asked by the HUAC why he joined the Party: "I heard it was a good place to meet dames."

When I was in my freshman(1961) English class, my instructor Ruth Smock was VERY anticommunist and showed OPERATION ABOLITION. That stirred up a controvery on campus and she put out a special edition newspaper defeding showing the film. We all had to write out research papers on communism.

In her favor she enouraged us to write and gave extra credit for submitting to magazines. If you sold a story, you got an automatic A. She was one of three instructors I credit for encouraging me to write although I've never sold anything.

I did write 3 articles for a Navy publication one of which received nice comments from the Chiefs of Navy Personnel and Information. But that's another story.

See you at the movies.+

I spewed my ire over Lloyd Gough's treatment by the HUAC over at his page. My father worked in film and TV right after WWII, and I heard a lot of stories during my childhood about friends of my parents who'd been blacklisted and ruined. "Dark and evil time" absolutely. Well said.

It takes a person with chutzpah and few brains to call Anerica the "best country." We have a flawed history rife with examples of how we treat people: the destruction of our Native American societies, enslavement of black people, internment of Japanese. I wonder if we've learned ANYTHING?