Academy celebrates Carmen Jones at 50
NEW YORK – The 1954 Academy Award-nominated musical “Carmen Jones” will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a screening here on March 1.
Red Scare didnt dampen their creativity Red Scare didnt dampen their creativity
Book Review Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950–2002 By Paul Buhle and David Wagner Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 Hardcover, 320 pp., $27.95
The price of empire
Review The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic By Chalmers Johnson Metropolitan Books, 2004, Hardcover, 389 pages, $25
Artists events target Patriot Act
MILWAUKEE – Hundreds of people here took part in five days of events last month to critically examine the USA Patriot Act and other threats to civil liberties.
Lee Cain, auto worker, Communist
Lee Cain, auto worker and UAW organizer, fighter for civil rights, and champion of the People’s Weekly World, died Jan. 13 at the age of 86.
Book Review People vs. Profits
A must read for today People vs. Profits Victor Perlo
Movie Review Who is the real Monster?
Charlize Theron as Aileen “Lee” Wuornos is stunning and unrecognizable in “Monster,” written and directed by Patty Jenkins. When you see Lee, you don’t recognize Theron. Lee is big, has a false swagger, full of testosteronic tendencies. But most of all, she has a class stamp all over her.
Discurso Bush
Editorial
Hasten to Houston
The Thrill and the Agony This week in sports by Chas Walker
Bill Hogan, peace and justice activist
Political, religious and community leaders were among friends who paid tribute at a memorial for Bill Hogan held at Chicago’s St. Bride’s Catholic Church, Jan. 9.
