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"I AM SPARTACUS!" RIP Kirk Douglas


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Dang been avoiding the news today for various reasons. Thanks for the info....

lol you can hide from the news but can’t get away. The VP was a few blocks from my house at a rally. Sure as #### got home from work in time to see the caravan roll by. Hour later leave to go to the store and.... there they all go....

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Douglas produced Spartacus (1960) and used it to break the Hollywood blacklist. It was one of two films released that year whose screenplay was written under his own name by Dalton Trumbo, an unabashed Communist (portrayed in a recent film by Bryan Cranston) who had gone to prison for refusing to name names to the House Un-American Activities Committee. (The other 1960 film was Exodus, produced by Otto Preminger.) The film's conclusion, in which none of the slaves will rat out Spartacus to the authorities, was widely understood at the time as a reference to what happened in the U.S. in the 1950s. To see the film, John F. Kennedy, then the President-elect, crossed a picket line organized by the American Legion -- a group which of course is famous on these forums for its important role in drum corps competitions.

Douglas's death leaves just one major star from the Golden Age of Hollywood (and Douglas's stardom really came at the end of that period) still living: Olivia de Havilland, who at 103 is a year younger than Douglas but who achieved fame about a decade before him with her roles in Captain Blood (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Gone With the Wind (1939).

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