Our friend Shelly Goldstein has a great article in this month's issue of Written By, the journal of the Writers Guild of America, West. It's called "The Hollywood 10: Screenwriters of Conscience" and it's derived from the script she wrote for a presentation at the 2018 Writers Guild Awards Ceremony. The era of the blacklist — when writers lost their careers because someone didn't like the allegations they were hearing about those writers' personal politics — is in the past but it needs to be remembered so it doesn't happen again. Shelly wrote a good piece about it and you can read it — and that whole issue of Written By — at this link.
Meanwhile, our friend Leonard Maltin has a new edition online of "Maltin on Movies," the must-listen podcast in which he and his daughter Jessie chat with various folks who make or properly appreciate films. This one features a conversation with someone named Al Pacino…and why they'd have that guy on when they could have me back as a guest, I do not understand. Listen to it here and see if you can figure it out.