Turning right at Hollywood and Vine : the perils of coming out conservative in Tinseltown / by Roger L. Simon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simon, Roger Lichtenberg.

Standardized Title:

Blacklisting myself

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Screenwriters--California--Los Angeles--Biography.

Screenwriters.

Authors, American--Biography.

Authors, American.

Dissenters--United States--Biography.

Dissenters.

New Left--United States.

New Left.

Conservatism--United States.

Conservatism.

Blacklisting of authors--California--Los Angeles.

Blacklisting of authors.

Mass media--Political aspects--United States.

Mass media.

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Simon, Roger Lichtenberg.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and a mystery novelist, Roger L. Simon is the only American writer to pull off the amazing trick of being profiled positively in both Mother Jones and National Review in one lifetime. The stunning story of his political odyssey is told in this memoir, where Simon recounts his migration from financier of the Black Panther Breakfast Program to pioneer blogosphere mogul beloved by the right as a 9/11 Democrat. But Simon is beholden to neither right nor left in this tale of Hollywood chic run amuck, as he talks out of school about his adventures with, among many others, Richard Pryor, Warren Beatty, Timothy Leary, Richard Dreyfuss, Woody Allen, and Julian Semyonov, the Soviet Union's version of Robert Ludlum and also a KGB colonel who tempted Simon to join the KGB himself. Among the topics covered along the way: Is there a new blacklist in Hollywood, this one targeting conservatives? Simon's red-carpet tours of the People's Republic of China, Cuba, and the Soviet Union with Hollywood screenwriters and famous mystery novelists. Why Al Gore's documentary on global warming didn't deserve the Oscar on artistic grounds alone; and why the Academy's voting system is so corrupt. And, as they say, there is much, much more besides.

Contents:

Introduction: my old life calls my new life

"Only victims"

From South Carolina backwards

Moses Wine is born

Daddy Rich, Abbie, the baby moguls and my early brush with identity politics

The 1980s vintage

Paul and the days of success

The International Association of Crime Writers, three trips to Russia and how I came to be recruited by the KGB

Evolution: the birth of an accidental online apostate CEO

Father Timothy and my three wives

OJ changed my life

Why they hate the neocons

The new blacklist

The rise of the "mini-me"

Extended family values and the godfather

Satori in the modern age of conservative liberals

Epilogue: finding God in Geneva and other travels without my aunt, plus the rise of tea party movies.

Notes:

Originally published as: Blacklisting myself. 2008. With new introd. and epilogue.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612990885

9781282990883

1282990888

9781594035548

1594035547

OCLC:

704519916