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The Front explores blacklists with humor and anger
Director Ritt, himself blacklisted, discusses making a film about the 1940s and 50s purge. Woody Allen stars as a front man for banned writers, while the cast includes actual blacklisted names. Ritt notes Red Channels and network refusals, urging memory of that era as a warning. Enrollment climbs 24 percent at Bowling Green Firelands Campus.
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Lloyd Gough
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