Historical record.On page 62 of your August 31 issue, David Ehrenstein David Ehrenstein (born February 18, 1947, in New York City) is an American critic who focuses primarily on issues of homosexuality in cinema. His father was a secular Jew with Polish ancestors, and his mother was of African American and white Irish descenthttp://www.laweekly. writes, "Zero Mostel ... nearly lost his career when [Jerome] Robbins gave up his name to HUAC HUAC abbr. House Un-American Activities Committee ," the House Un-American Activities Committee House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), a committee (1938–75) of the U.S. House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations. Its first chairman, Martin Dies, set the pattern for its anti-Communist investigations. . Actually, Mostel did not nearly lose his career, and Robbins did not give his name to HUAC. The testimony of both men is in print in my book Thirty Years of Treason. Eric Bentley, via the Internet |
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