22. PJ:
Congratulations, Roger. I sure am going to order my copy.

I have gone through the same changes as you and David Zucker and many others. I saw An American Carol and it made me cry. In a way, I felt like I had come home again. I’m sure your book will ring with the same truth.
Thanks.

Oct 7, 2008 – 2:49 pm

Perhaps this explains the movie’s enormous box-office success.

IOKIYAR.

Besides, that blacklist was only for evilbad Comsymps. (Has anybody but Colonel Flagg ever used the term “Comsymp”?)

*Honestly, I can’t understand that. Seems once you get a part on a Whedon project, you instantly gain a sizeable fanbase with unquestioning loyalty. Sure there are some who go too far with it, but to spit on the whole? As a clueless outsider, I’d think having a group of people who will watch any role you get would be a good thing.

Having said, I haven’t seen his episode of the Father Dowling Mysteries. For all I know that could be a watershed in gentle TV murder mystery.

But somehow his brave stance in favor or fearmongering and support for Bush in 2003 got him blacklisted years earlier.

yes, that is correct. he was washed up at that point. i made a lot of writer’s lists (the lot of a young executive) back in 99 and he was on exactly none of them.

And whats up with that cover?Is he trying to convey the impression that he was a young hot writer in Hollywood before the Age of Terror compelled him to “blacklist” himself?Funny because I’m pretty sure he was a dried up hack in his 50′s/60′s by the time 9-11 occured.

Yeah – “fedora-clad” tells me he writes books like he makes movies … so I’ll look forward to seeing this in the $2.99-Bin at my local Safeway by spring.

P.S. I voted early….heeheehee…..it’s already done. YES!

Good job. Now register many more times through ACORN, and then vote some more. This makes teh Toof happy (on the inside).

Yes, and it’s eerie for me to read “fedora-clad,” since it takes an especially tin ear to write “clad” with respect to a fucking hat.

I told those damn police that their “public indecency” charge was bullshit; I was clearly wearing a fedora!

No big surprises on the conservacelebrity list, except for James Earl Jones, which is really more of a disappointment.

*Shot on a single off-brand refurbished camcorder; actors responsible for their own wardrobe, makeup, lunch, carfare.

When the FUCK was Roger Hell ever progressive????

the reason roger can’t get arrested in this town any more is because if there is any crime a writer can’t commit, it is getting old. very few writers make it past their late 40s in town before they become yesterday’s news. it sucks–it’s ageism, it’s wrong on many levels–but we’d rather have the next diablo cody than the winner of the academy award for best screenplay from 1988.

so it does suck to be roger. and the way some writers deal with it…

well, i will quote gang of four: “some flirt with fascism, some lie in the arms of lovers…we live, as we dream alone.”

So, I’m guessing that Mr. Simon doesn’t deliver.

Wingnuts can only accept they are in a minority when it allows them to have their persecution fantasies.

I would say they just want persecution fantasies, regardless.

If the DNC would pony up for some complimentary dominatrixes, we might not see them again for a while.