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Peter Bart: In Hollywood, Trump Administration’s Enemies Lists Have Blacklist Feel
The advent of Donald Trump’s “Imperial presidency,” as The Economist terms it, is stirring an emotional response within the Hollywood community.
“I don’t believe a Trump blacklist today would cancel careers in the entertainment industry, but it could spur retreat in terms of corporate policy and even network news,” said the CEO of one major company who requested anonymity. Ironically, the original blacklist was traced to an executive order of the Harry Truman administration in 1947 that set up a “loyalty review board” to identify Russian sympathizers. Abe Lastfogel, then boss of the William Morris office, was dismissive of the “red baiters” until clients like Judy Holliday, Edward G Robinson and even Milton Berle became enmeshed in the charges and counter-charges.
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