Oscar-Winning Director Elia Kazan Dies at 94. I can’t believe that FoxNews didn’t have it’s own obituary to run and had to use this Associated Press obit.
Talk about Fair and Balanced; the way this AP bio mentions his naming Communists, you’d never know Kazan was unrepentantly proud of it! Instead it paints him as a weasel turning over others to save his own skin. Fine if you want to think that, but the obit should at least give voice to Kazan’s own thoughts on the subject.
The obituary also mentions that some critics see a subtext in “On The Waterfront” as a justification for his own decision. Gee…you think??? These same brainiacs also might detect an undercurrent of snake-phobia in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” When Chuck Dixon passes away, I imagine the Associated Press will state that “some critics thought that Dixon enjoyed action scenes.”
The plain fact is that Kazan had been in the Communist party, grown disenfranchised and turned against it, and whatever others thought of his decision, he never regretted it. It could seriously be argued that Kazan was just as judged for a decision that had nothing to do with his art. This Associated Press bio is disgraceful.