Witness.(Elia Kazan: A Biography)(Book Review)

National Review | December 31, 2005| | Copyright

Elia Kazan: A Biography, by Richard Schickel (HarperCollins, 544 pp., $29.95)

OUTSIDE of North Korea and the English departments of certain American universities, Hollywood is one of the last places in the world where it's advantageous to be an unrepentant Stalinist. That's why Elia Kazan got into hot water when the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to give him an honorary Oscar in 1999.

You'd think the director of A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront would have been an easy sell--but of course you'd only ...

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