Entertainment: Phil Taylor praises the newly released film, Trumbo, that details the role of screen writer Dalton Trumbo as a member of the Hollywood 10 taken before the House Un-American Committee in 1947 because of absurd fears that their communist thinking was a threat to the motion picture industry.
Taylor says Trumbo lets you see how Hollywood works and how people perform under stress when they have their principles at stake. One example given was Edward G. Robinson, a progressive anti-racist pro-labor man, who clenched when when the hammer came down, when put in the "pressure chamber."
John Wayne is portrayed for what he was, a bully and noisy fake, who told Trumbo, a soldier who fought in the war against fascism, to return to Russia. Meanwhile, Wayne's only fighting was on the beaches of California. Wayne was a vindictive arrogant man wanting all of the Hollywood 10s' lives and their families' lives destroyed.
Taylor also describes a very touching scene between Trumbo and his daughter who asks him if she is a communist. Trumbo gives the daughter a test, which will warm your heart and your mind.
Sports/Football, which some say is a national religion. Taylor discusses the Washington Redskins' redneck discrimination against American Indians and Blacks, their recent loss to the Green Bay Packers and the their abuse of one of the great football quarterbacks, Robert Griffin III.
Taylor notes that the Green Bay Packers are the only major sports enterprise in North America owned by their city, an example for all others (but also an example banned by the NFL in 1960).
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