The Washington Post, January 19th, 2001
I'D HATE MYSELF IN THE MORNING By Ring Lardner Jr. Nation Books. 198 pp. $22.95 On the 50th anniversary of the first Hollywood hearings conducted by the infamous House Unamerican Activities Committee, Hollywood itself threw a big celebratory bash. At the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences theater in 1997 the audience wept and cheered as Paul Jarrico and Ring Lardner Jr. were given plaques (and various other formerly blacklisted writers, directors and actors were honored as well). Lardner, who had been gaveled down by Rep. J. Parnell Thomas a half century before, finally had a chance t...
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