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HUAC's best known hearing was its 1948 investigation into communism in the film industry. The Hollywood Ten, composed of nine scriptwriters and one director, were charged with contempt of congress and sentenced to prison time. The playwright Bertolt Brecht had appeared as the eleventh unfriendlywitness, but no one could understand his German accent, and the HUAC chairman, J. Parnell Thomas, opining--"Hey, nobody who smokes cheap cigars like I do can be one of those dirty, filthy, lying, Pinko Commie Revolutionaries"--thanked him and let him go. And as Brecht himself said, "Vouldn't I haf to haf actually zold a zcript to Hollyvood to be conzidered a Hollyvood zcriptwriter? Unt eferyvon knowz my girlfriendz do my writink!" Many other artists expressed contempt for congress at the time but we

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  • HUAC's best known hearing was its 1948 investigation into communism in the film industry. The Hollywood Ten, composed of nine scriptwriters and one director, were charged with contempt of congress and sentenced to prison time. The playwright Bertolt Brecht had appeared as the eleventh unfriendlywitness, but no one could understand his German accent, and the HUAC chairman, J. Parnell Thomas, opining--"Hey, nobody who smokes cheap cigars like I do can be one of those dirty, filthy, lying, Pinko Commie Revolutionaries"--thanked him and let him go. And as Brecht himself said, "Vouldn't I haf to haf actually zold a zcript to Hollyvood to be conzidered a Hollyvood zcriptwriter? Unt eferyvon knowz my girlfriendz do my writink!" Many other artists expressed contempt for congress at the time but we
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  • HUAC's best known hearing was its 1948 investigation into communism in the film industry. The Hollywood Ten, composed of nine scriptwriters and one director, were charged with contempt of congress and sentenced to prison time. The playwright Bertolt Brecht had appeared as the eleventh unfriendlywitness, but no one could understand his German accent, and the HUAC chairman, J. Parnell Thomas, opining--"Hey, nobody who smokes cheap cigars like I do can be one of those dirty, filthy, lying, Pinko Commie Revolutionaries"--thanked him and let him go. And as Brecht himself said, "Vouldn't I haf to haf actually zold a zcript to Hollyvood to be conzidered a Hollyvood zcriptwriter? Unt eferyvon knowz my girlfriendz do my writink!" Many other artists expressed contempt for congress at the time but were not called to testify. The novelist and scriptwriter Ayn Rand, on the other hand, testified as a friendly witness. "Nobody is a stronger proponent of un-Americanism than I am," she proudly proclaimed. More recent analysis of her statements to HUAC have called into question the label friendly, forcing the reinterpretation that she had merely been cordial. That same year, the sitting members of HUAC were captured in a Hollywood nightclub raid for stolen rocking chairs. Any time everyone stood up in that room until Marcus Allen, in 1993, stumbled in humming "Hail to the Chief".
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