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Title: The Red and the Blacklist: A Memoir of a Hollywood Insider by Norma Barzman ISBN: 1-56025-466-1 Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Condemned out of her own mouth
Comment: This book is really not good. I am very interested in the blacklist period and screenwriting - despite the title this book does an awful job of telling you anything about those things.
All you learn about is Norma Barzman herself, and even though you only hear her side of the story, by the middle of her book you come to hate her, condemned out of her own mouth as a self-obsessed hypocrite.
How is she a hyprocrite? She's a supposed "communist" living in luxury in a South of France estate, employing servants to raise her kids.
She's a wife who shags all her loyal husband's friends behind his back.
She's someone who to this day calls herself a screenwriter when she has only one produced screenplay to her name, a 1953 Italian B-movie. She was shagging the friend of her husband who agreed to produce it.
It's a very irritating book, and really is best avoided.
Rating: 1
Summary: What a phony!
Comment: This memoir of the alleged struggles of blacklisted, privileged, self-centered writer and adultress Norma Barzman reads like the chore list of some spoiled Beverly Hills trophy wife. Her supposed Communist ideology is all arm's length and she doesn't seem to have suffered at all after being exiled from the U.S. - in fact, as she puts it herself, she had "the time of her life" in France. So what's this drama queen's beef?
Rating: 5
Summary: Bravo !A Racy and Riveting Read!
Comment: God, this book is so sexy and thrilling, compared to the other worthy, dull, snoozy blacklist memoirs out there. Ms. Barzman has really lived a very full life and leaves no stones unturned, about her personal and professional frustrations, her life as a commie, her hubby being jealous, the umpteen affairs, her glitzy starstudded life in Hollywood and in Europe...the gossip is worth the price alone, but its much more than that; its fiercly political, feministic...and get this, she's still a political toughie, uncomprising and stilling fighting the good fight! Bravo!
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Title: The Memory of All That : Love and Politics in New York, Hollywood, and Paris by Betsy Blair ISBN: 0375412999 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Blacklisted : The Film Lover's Guide to the Hollywood Blacklist by Paul Buhle, Dave Wagner ISBN: 140396145X Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 17 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: I'd Hate Myself in the Morning by Ring Lardner Jr., Victor S. Navasky ISBN: 156025338X Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance by Nat Hentoff ISBN: 1583226214 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Naming Names: With a new afterword by the author by Victor S. Navasky ISBN: 0809001837 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: 30 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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