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Ron McKay's Diary: Let's not remember Louis B Mayer, the man who set up the Oscars ... and worked with Nazis to censor Hollywood's movies


It’s the Oscars tonight, which is good news for insomniacs because it’s likely to run through to breakfast.
The film tipped to take the top honours – it has 10 nominations – is Mank. If it wins Louis B Mayer, who originally set up the Academy Awards, will be be turning in his grave. 
Mayer created and ran MGM, the biggest Hollywood studio ,which led in the blacklisting of the Hollywood 10 in 1947, accused of being communists. And in the 1930s, amazingly as he was a Jew, he collaborated with the Nazis to censor anything critical.
He and other studio heads met with the German counsel in Los Angeles who sent reports to officials in Berlin about the cuts the studios had agreed to make. ....

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About this Issue - Issue 408, Winter, 2021 - Fifth Estate Magazine


Welcome to Fifth Estate’s
Anarchist Review of Books, edited by a collective based in Austin, Detroit, Chicago, New York, Oakland and Seattle. ARB brings you intelligent, subversive, non–dogmatic writing with an anti-authoritarian perspective.
We put this issue out at a time of grave concern in American publishing. A deadening combination of corporate consolidation and academic professionalization of writing has produced decades of embarrassing, dull work and uninspired critique that stands as a record of cowardice and complicity in literature; a one-two punch that has brought wily, vibrant work to its knees.
For more than twenty years success in American publishing has been determined by a handful of literary finishing schools an aptly named terminal degree, a contract with a house (owned by one of just four corporations) that professes to care about good writing not politics and an implicit understanding politics never refers to class. ....

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