My Photo

Welcome to Mannionville

  • Politics, art, movies, television, books, parenting, home repair, caffeine addiction---you name it, we blog it. Since 2004. Call for free estimate.

The Tip Jar


  • Please help keep this blog running strong with your donation

Help Save the Post Office: My snail mail address

  • Lance Mannion
    109 Third St.
    Wallkill, NY 12589
    USA

Save a Blogger From Begging...Buy Stuff


The one, the only

Sister Site

« Potato Day is Tyranny Day | Main | Cohen the Barbarian on the burning of books »

Comments

Feed You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

burritoboy


Or, more broadly, the American Right speaks of virtue and good constantly, and yet has no idea what virtue or good actually are.

Susie

I agree with you generally, but I feel bound to point out that the “friend he would later betray” and his defenders tried to smear Chambers as a nutjob queer fresh from the loony bin. ( I don’t think calling someone gay is a smear, but they did in those days.) Classic ad hominem attack when the evidence is against you.

And Chambers betrayed far fewer people than Hiss, when you think about it.

You couldn’t make Chambers into a conventional political movie hero but you could make him an interesting anti-hero. It wouldn’t be “Milk” but it could be a better film on every level than “Milk,” although that’s not what Lewis wants – he’s looking for propaganda, not drama. (Which was also true of “Milk,” which was decent propaganda but otherwise mediocre.)

I seem to recall a good PBS movie from years ago with Ned Beatty as Chambers and Edward Herrmann as Hiss. I’d be curious to see it again if it’s on DVD somewhere.

The comments to this entry are closed.

Data Analysis

  • Data Analysis

Categories

April 2021

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
        1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30  

Movies, Music, Books, Kindles, and more

For All Your Laundry Needs

In Case of Typepad Emergency Break Glass

Be Smart, Buy Books


Blog powered by Typepad