The record will show that on october 27th, 1947, a subcommittee of the house on American Activities Committee met with the chairman, dishonorable Parnell Thomas presiding. The house on American Activities Committee is in session. Let yourself go. You, sir, are not even subpoenaed to testify here. Yeah, im going to speak anyway. Very well, mr. Dreyfuss. My name is Richard Dreyfuss. And im a child of the blacklist. I was not my parents were not in show business but they were the victims of the blacklist nonetheless. I lived on 218 street in bay side, queens and every house on that block was lived in by a communist or a socialist. And if you have not fought hitler twice and not gone to the Abraham Lincoln brigade, you better have a dam good reason. When i was a young boy i turned to my mom and i said im the luckiest kid in the world and she said why . I said because im white, jewish and american. And she said its time you came into the meetings. And when i was about 10, i turned to a frie
[ laughter ] you are good. Last night, we had a group that was whats the word that im looking for . They were not hip. Dumb dumb. Thats right. [laughter] last night was the kind of group they thought Thompson Park was a place where divorced fathers took their kids on sunday. [ laughter ] what are you going to do, when you have a crowd like that . I should remind you, im former United States naval ensign. John w. Carson, 450375. During tonights monologue, the laughing lamp is lit. [ laughter ] they are like, hmm, yes. Well, lets go to the news and see if leon spinks has located any sixinchwide dental floss. [ laughter ] [ applause ] we cant do those jokes anymore. I saw a recent picture of leon two teeth. There goes half the monologue, right there. [ laughter ] we have a late report from the news room. You know bubbles the hippo . Well, zoo parades Marlin Perkins just tranquilized bubbles, the hippo. Marlin put her to sleep by screening one of his reruns on her side. [ laughter ] oh no,
An entertainment medium. So, how do you present this material to an audience and make it entertaining . And that really, uh a big credit goes to hal ashby, because he has the kind of nonsequitur sense of humor and he lays back on certain issues. Paraplegics could be very grim. Guys returning from the war in the state i was in could be very grim. A wife having to go through both sides of the triangle could be very grim. But ashbys got a great way of handling that. A sarcastic touch in there, from time to time. The humor is there, but at the same time, its real. Its really the only way to approach subject matter for the thing we were trying to say like that. What the movie really is about is the war at home. It was a war that we all saw on television. Every night for ten years, we saw what was going on. But you never saw what went on with these guys when they came home if they came home. Yes. Hundreds and thousands in this country. The thing im proudest of is its the most collaborative e
With additional nding from these foundations and individuals and by and the annual Financial Support of hello, im john lithgow. Welcome to american cinema. American romantic comedies are bright, witty, silly and loaded. In 1934, the Motion Picture it haened one night broke Hollywood Records and won 5 academy awards. Its appeal was in its modern version of romance, which played with certain acts. That same year, the Motion Picture production code was instituted which explicitly prohibited certain acts, themes words and implicatio. The code didnt mean you couldnt have romance. It meant there were limits. Writers enjoyed testing the limits, changing a battle of the sexes into a playful intrigue that turned on double meanings and double dealings, launching a dede of fasttalking romantic comedies known as screwball. Some of the most elegant actors and actresses in hollywood did their best work making wisecracks and taking pratfalls proving the battle of the sexes is best as a battle of equa
And by and the annual Financial Support of hello, im john lithgow. Welcome to american cinema. American romantic comedies are bright, witty, silly and loaded. In 1934, the Motion Picture it happened one night broke Hollywood Records and won 5 academy awards. Its appeal was in its modern version of romae, which played with certain acts, themes, words and implications. That same year, the motion piure production code was instituted which explicitly prohibited certain acts, themes words and implications. The code dnt mean it meant there were limits. Writers enjoyed testing the limits, changing a battle of the sexes into a playful intrigue that turned on double meanings and double dealings, launching a dede of fasttalking romantic comedies known as screwball. Some of the most elegant actors and actressein hollywood did their best work maki wisecracks and taking pratfalls proving the battle of the sexes is bt as a battle of equals. From the screwball comedies of the 30s and 40s to their res