Alternate headline: Blogger Discovers Keynote Speaker for the Anti-Communist Film Festival. And yes, I’ve alerted Mark Judge, except he’s been on the effort for almost three months.
Back in March, Mark wrote about a new novel from best-selling author James Ellroy, whose novels Hollywood had made into films such as the James Woods thriller Cop, Brown’s Requiem, The Black Dahlia, and most famously, L.A. Confidential. Mark noted the publication of Ellroy’s latest novel, Red Sheet, set in Ellroy’s favorite setting of 1950s Hollywood, only with a surprising and audacious twist. The novel takes the position that the so-called Blacklist was not only a Hollywood studio manipulation, but that the anti-Communists at the time were right about the Soviet influence operation targeting the American entertainment industry …
