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Article: See it again: is George Clooney a serious filmmaker? He's made a stark, perfectly focused film on Edward R. Murrow's war with Joe McCarthy. So, yes.(FILM)(Movie Review)
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- The American Prospect
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- October 1, 2005
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THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCE OF AMERICA'S post-World War II Red Scare first slammed into the immovable object of network television in September 1953, when the House Un-American Activities Committee revealed that TV's biggest star had registered to vote in the 1936 election as a Communist. The redhead was a Red.
For the next week, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz--or, rather, Lucy and Desi, as neither broke character throughout the crisis--spun like dervishes, giving interviews and working their fans. Careers had been smashed for far less, but ultimately Lucy's flaming past only made sense as one more domestic mishap--she had, she explained, just been trying to please ...