Monday, March 15, 2010
How and when Vanessa Redgrave's career was terminated. The speech which shocked Hollywood
How her reference to "the Zionist hoodlums" sealed her fate!
"Redgrave's support of the Palestinian Arabs has reduced her opportunities in Hollywood and even back home in England, where such support was and is more common. Redgrave almost certainly would have been made a Dame by now but for her outspoken views.
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The full account of the reactions here..
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Sorry, this is a bunch of nonsense. Vanessa Redgrave's career was not terminated...and her opportunities werenot reduced. She went on to act in some of the most important films of the times and is still going strong.
ReplyDeleteI love the line about, she would have been made a Dame by now. Since when did Lefties care about honors from the former British Empire? This really made me laugh.
<span>Sorry, this is a bunch of nonsense. Vanessa Redgrave's career was not terminated...and her opportunities were not reduced. She went on to act in some of the most important films of the times and is still going strong. Just look at her list of films in the years after the famous brouhaha at the Academy Awards.
ReplyDeleteI love the line about, she would have been made a Dame by now. Since when did Lefties care about honors from the former British Empire? This really made me laugh.</span>
Btw, Redgrave is on the record stating she does believe in Israel's right to exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Redgrave
In 1967, Redgrave was made a Commander (CBE) of the Order of the British Empire. It is understood that she declined a damehood in 1999.<sup></sup><span>[</span>4<span>]</span>
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I think vza has got it about right, though I don't think Vanessa ever appeared in another Hollywood financed film after that. Maybe that was a good thing - big money, crappy product. She did get a couple more Oscar nominations after that, and I believe she got work on US TV, though the zionist rentamob made life difficult for her over there
ReplyDeleteShe got a lifetime achievement award from the British Film and Theater Academy a few weeks ago, and I got a big shock when she curtseyed, nay genuflected, to the royal parasite who was handing over the trophy. Still she's looking old and frail so maybe it was just her legs giving way.
Redgrave's speech was amazingly brave for the time. Even today you couldn't find anyone with the cojones to take on the Zionist hoodlums and this was more than 30 years ago.
ReplyDeletePaddy Chayefsky's reaction saddened me, as Chayefsky was one of the most eloquent anti-Empire, anti-war voices in American film, and a writer of wonderful scripts whose message still stands. But I guess he was another case of PEP: Progressive Except for Palestine. The Zionist cause trumps everything, including intellectual honesty and moral decency.
That was my post above as "Guest."
ReplyDelete<span>I love her acting, so I do not care about her politics. I thought Chayefsky was right, "A simple thank you would have sufficed." I could see it if her comments provoked any change or even had the chance of doing so....there was no chance. Choose your battles wisely.
ReplyDeleteI think she means well, but perhaps is a bit of a gullible soul.
She met Gerry Healy (an ugly toad of a man) and travelled with him to meetings: 'The next few weeks were among the most exhilarating of my life. It seemed to me that I learned more in that short space of time than in the whole of my previous existence.' Healy was delighted with his new convert and got her to buy a house in the Peak District to turn into a 'college of Marxism'. According to later defectors, the Red House was run almost like a prison - guards patrolled the perimeter and students were not allowed contact with their families or the outside world, for fear of MI5 infiltration. Naturally, the press were suspicious and in 1978 police raided the house on a tip-off from The Observer that it contained a stockpile of arms. No arms were found and Vanessa and Corin sued The Observer for libel but lost and were left with huge costs. Then, in 1985, the tabloids mounted a huge expose of Gerry Healy based on testimony from defectors - he had sexually abused dozens of women and stolen party funds. Almost all the party members then left - except the Redgraves, who stayed loyal to Healy till his death in 1989.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2006/mar/19/theatre2</span>
<span> Redgrave is on the record stating she does believe in Israel's right to exist.</span>
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It really doesn't matter to me that she does..Could she have been unaware that Israel's right to exist was granted (unfairly but that's a different story) by the UN on 52% of Palestine UNDER THE CONDITION that no displacement or transfer of population took place. What makes Israel an illegal entity today is that it occupies 92% and close to a million inhabitants were expelled..In later UN resolutions the right of return to the refuges was emphasised but Israel never cared..
Redgrave was undesirable in Hollywood vza, I can fing many links where it was said that she's not "reliable" True, she still manged to work a bit but that's not what was an actress of status could have done otherwise..
ReplyDeleteI do enjoy hearing political comments from stars accepting their awards. It's like war, murder and mayhem can be, no -- IS -- going on in the outside world, but the academy awards is just about beautiful gowns and accolades, and the occasional slip up or badly chosen outfit for comedy relief. Has anyone noticed that what Hollywood produces is propaganda? It's heavily slanted towards the militaristic, like three-quarters of TV shows are about the police, getting us to love the police state.
ReplyDeleteDirty red, eh vza? No platform for them. You can take free speech too far.
ReplyDeleteWhat on earth are you squawking, about?
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