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Hollywood Blacklist and "The Waldorf Conference"

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Meet me at the Waldorf where? where to get tickets? cost? student discounts? sounds like its not to be missed! thanks.

The information is at our website: http://www.waldorfconference.com/ November 24, 2003 7:30 PM $35 / $50   +$5.50 sc . Silent Auction . Reception  Writers Guild Theater 135 S. Doheny Drive Beverly Hills order online: primoticket.com charge by phone: (800) 982-5882 on sale at box office: Mon. Nov. 24 at 5 PM Hope you can join us.  I’m flying out from Boston for it.

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Jethro Tull is off the playlist of New Jersey classic rock station WCHR-FM after the band’s frontman criticized displays of the Stars and Stripes. "I hate to see the American flag hanging out of every bloody station wagon, out of every SUV, every little Midwestern house in some residential area," Ian Anderson was quoted as saying in an interview. Said programming director Phil LoCascio: "The reaction of our audience has been 99% in favor of the ban." – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Meet me at the Waldorf By Borys Kit with contributions from Andrew Wallenstein. Meet me at the Waldorf: Like a wound that never quite seems to heal, the history of the blacklist is a topic that Hollywood periodically finds itself revisiting. The recent death of director Elia Kazan, for instance, occasioned remembrance of the dark days when filmmakers were denied jobs because of their political convictions. And so it’s not surprising that a 10-year-old play called "The Waldorf Conference" also is making a reappearance. The play reconstructs the hysteria that overtook the industry during the 1947 witch hunt by the House Un-American Activites Committee, which led to the studio heads convening one fateful November weekend at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel. That was where they came up with a plan to implement the blacklist. Written by Nat Segaloff, Daniel M. Kimmel and Arnie Reisman, the play was originally produced 10 years ago by L.A. Theatre Works, but it will be performed again for one night only on Nov. 24 as a special benefit for the Hollywood ACLU and the Writer’s Guild Foudation. "Nobody knows what happened over those two days," says Segaloff, who also is serving as one of the evening’s producers. "There were no transcripts, nobody ever spoke about it, and only one (person) ever wrote about it: Dore Schary, then head of RKO and one of the biggest liberals at the time. The tragedy is that that man who was so opposed to the list became the one to write the Waldorf Peace Pact, which was used to implement the blacklist." The play will star Ed Asner, Paul Mazursky, Harlan Ellison, James Cromwell and John de Lancie, who also will direct. "When we did the play 10 years ago, the question everybody asked was, ‘Could a blacklist happen again?’ " Segaloff recalls. "And everybody said, ‘No.’ But nowadays, when you ask the same question, the answer is Bill Maher, Natalie Maines, Tim Robbins and Sean Penn.

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Meet me at the Waldorf where? where to get tickets? cost? student discounts?

All that I don’t know. Since it does benefit the Hollywood ACLU as well as the Writer’s Guild Foundation, you might want to contact either of those places. Someone there is bound to have that info. sounds like its not to be missed! thanks. -jon g.

I know, I’m tempted to fly out to LA for a few days just to see it.

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Americans Flock to Get on NRA Blacklist LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Most blacklists are designed to intimidate. But thousands of Americans are clamoring to join one drawn up by the National Rifle Association (NRA). Actor Dustin Hoffman was so dismayed to find his name missing from the NRA’s shadowy 19-page list of U.S. companies, celebrities, and news organizations seen as lending support to anti-gun policies that he wrote to the powerful pro-gun lobby group begging to be included. (Adds explosive device, paragraph 1, 6, easing of movement, 13) "As a supporter of comprehensive gun safety measures, I was deeply disappointed when I discovered my name was not on the list," Hoffman wrote in a letter to the NRA that was released Tuesday. "I was particularly surprised by the omission given my opposition to the loophole that makes it legal for 18- to 20-year-olds to buy handguns at gun shows," he added. Hoffman’s name has now been added to the list which reads like a Who’s Who of American business, culture and religion and which ranges from the American Jewish Congress to A&M Records, ABC News and talk show queen Oprah Winfrey. An NRA spokesman could not be reached for comment. The list was found deep in the official NRA Web site by a group of grass-roots anti-gun campaigners and publicized by them two weeks ago to garner support for two pieces of gun control legislation going through Congress. The campaigners set up their own Web site (http://www.NRAblacklist.com) and urged Americans to voluntarily put their names there. A full-page ad Tuesday in Daily Variety — the Hollywood trade magazine — urged movie and music artists to sign up. "What the site tries to do is turn it into a badge of honor to get on the blacklist by saying ‘Hey Julia Roberts is on the blacklist. Why don’t you join it?.’ It’s been incredibly successful. Since we have launched, 25,000 people have signed on to ask to be put on the blacklist," said Wendy Katz, spokesperson for the group. The NRA initially denied compiling a blacklist as such, saying it was merely responding to members wanting to know which individuals and corporations opposed the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment on the right to bear arms. But National Rifle Association Executive Vice-President Wayne LaPierre said of the list last week; "Our members don’t want to buy their songs, don’t want to go to their movies, don’t want to support their careers." Katz said the campaigners hoped to expose the NRA’s influence in Washington, D.C., spur opposition to a bill that would grant immunity in civil cases for gun manufacturers and dealers, and gather support for renewal of a 1994 ban on the sale of military assault weapons. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Meet me at the Waldorf By Borys Kit with contributions from Andrew Wallenstein. Meet me at the Waldorf: Like a wound that never quite seems to heal, the history of the blacklist is a topic that Hollywood periodically finds itself revisiting. The recent death of director Elia Kazan, for instance, occasioned remembrance of the dark days when filmmakers were denied jobs because of their political convictions. And so it’s not surprising that a 10-year-old play called "The Waldorf Conference" also is making a reappearance. The play reconstructs the hysteria that overtook the industry during the 1947 witch hunt by the House Un-American Activites Committee, which led to the studio heads convening one fateful November weekend at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel. That was where they came up with a plan to implement the blacklist. Written by Nat Segaloff, Daniel M. Kimmel and Arnie Reisman, the play was originally produced 10 years ago by L.A. Theatre Works, but it will be performed again for one night only on Nov. 24 as a special benefit for the Hollywood ACLU and the Writer’s Guild Foudation. "Nobody knows what happened over those two days," says Segaloff, who also is serving as one of the evening’s producers. "There were no transcripts, nobody ever spoke about it, and only one (person) ever wrote about it: Dore Schary, then head of RKO and one of the biggest liberals at the time. The tragedy is that that man who was so opposed to the list became the one to write the Waldorf Peace Pact, which was used to implement the blacklist." The play will star Ed Asner, Paul Mazursky, Harlan Ellison, James Cromwell and John de Lancie, who also will direct. "When we did the play 10 years ago, the question everybody asked was, ‘Could a blacklist happen again?’ " Segaloff recalls. "And everybody said, ‘No.’ But nowadays, when you ask the same question, the answer is Bill Maher, Natalie Maines, Tim Robbins and Sean Penn.

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Meet me at the Waldorf

where? where to get tickets? cost? student discounts? sounds like its not to be missed! thanks. -jon g.

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Meet me at the Waldorf By Borys Kit with contributions from Andrew Wallenstein. Meet me at the Waldorf: Like a wound that never quite seems to heal, the history of the blacklist is a topic that Hollywood periodically finds itself revisiting. The recent death of director Elia Kazan, for instance, occasioned remembrance of the dark days when filmmakers were denied jobs because of their political convictions. And so it’s not surprising that a 10-year-old play called "The Waldorf Conference" also is making a reappearance. The play reconstructs the hysteria that overtook the industry during the 1947 witch hunt by the House Un-American Activites Committee, which led to the studio heads convening one fateful November weekend at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel. That was where they came up with a plan to implement the blacklist. Written by Nat Segaloff, Daniel M. Kimmel and Arnie Reisman, the play was originally produced 10 years ago by L.A. Theatre Works, but it will be performed again for one night only on Nov. 24 as a special benefit for the Hollywood ACLU and the Writer’s Guild Foudation. "Nobody knows what happened over those two days," says Segaloff, who also is serving as one of the evening’s producers. "There were no transcripts, nobody ever spoke about it, and only one (person) ever wrote about it: Dore Schary, then head of RKO and one of the biggest liberals at the time. The tragedy is that that man who was so opposed to the list became the one to write the Waldorf Peace Pact, which was used to implement the blacklist." The play will star Ed Asner, Paul Mazursky, Harlan Ellison, James Cromwell and John de Lancie, who also will direct. "When we did the play 10 years ago, the question everybody asked was, ‘Could a blacklist happen again?’ " Segaloff recalls. "And everybody said, ‘No.’ But nowadays, when you ask the same question, the answer is Bill Maher, Natalie Maines, Tim Robbins and Sean Penn.

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