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Article: Screening Our Politics.(Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner)
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- The Nation
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- August 19, 2002
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RADICAL HOLLYWOOD: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies.
By Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner. The New Press. 460 pp. $29.99.
Like Pop-Up Video--one of the many things the movie-industry left never anticipated--ancillary factoids keep imposing themselves on Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner's Radical Hollywood:
1. When the oft-dubbed "revolutionary" Lew Wasserman (longtime MCA mogul) died this past June 3, obit writers made the old archcapitalist sound like he'd been the happy end of a Bolshevik dream--the man who finally took the power away from the studios and gave it to the people (OK, very rich, well-placed people).
2. Wasn't it ...