Elia Kazan—Genius or Informant? Half a century after McCarthyism, the Academy Award-winning director is again under fire for naming names by Rachael Stark Fifty years after the blacklisting of…
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By Alicia Potter Oscar was in big trouble. The year was 1952, and talk swirled on the backlots and in the boardrooms that the Academy Awards were on their last legs. The problem? Money. The…
