scapegoat, anti-Semitism man-
aged to rear its head in a more
obvious way."
But Klehr feels that the anti-
Semitic overtones of anti-liber-
alism today is much more fringe,
less powerful, than in the 1950s.
"I doubt that something like that
could happen again on that kind
of scale. I don't think there's that
sense of internal subversion any-
more." ❑
Susan Bernstein is a staff writer
for our sister publication, the
Atlanta Jewish Times.

film industry," says Linda
Dubler, curator of media arts at
the High Museum of Art. "A lot
of very talented people were
crushed by it, or were forced to
go underground and to contribute
clandestinely."
Sometimes it took mere rumor
to stigmatize an artist. Studio
heads refused to hire people who
took the Fifth Amendment dur-
ing the hearings. One justifica-
tion the executives used was that
veterans groups and others had
threatened to boycott their films,
says Klehr.
But years later, Jewish groups
made similar threats against ac-
tress Vanessa Redgrave, a vocal
supporter of the Palestine Lib-
eration Organization, he notes.
"Those issues are raised by
things like the blacklist. Moral-
ly, it's a. more complicated issue
than someone being punished for
his political views," he says.
During the 1950s, the HUAC
investigations heightened para-
noia in the motion picture in-
dustry, causing people to avoid
non-mainstream political activi-
ty and affiliations, says Klehr.
But was there a long-term effect?
Most of Hollywood's powerful
players today are liberal Jews —
Steven Spielberg, Barbra
Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss.
Recently, Republicans Robert
Dole and William Bennett tar-
geted Hollywood as the well-
spring of vulgarity that poisons
American culture. Could there
be a similar right-wing backlash
in today's hyperbole-filled cli-
mate?
"Look at the current manifes-
tations of anti-Semitism, how
people say that Jews control the
media. It's just an extension of
the same thing," says Dubler,
who is Jewish. "It was there be-
fore the blacklist, that Jews ran
Hollywood. And when the black-
list came, and with it a desire to

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begin.ning at 7 pan. Films fea
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Border Incident, 10:30 p.m.
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Humoresque, 3:30 a.m. Feb.
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Love Is Better Than Ever, 9
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Finger Of Guilt, 7 p.m. Feb.
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Box 0face grosses, nationally and regionally.

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Top 10 films (in order of local rank)

Nat'l rank

Local box office

Nat'l box office

Black Sheep

1

$ 221,203

$ 10,593,609

Mr. Holland's Opus

3

$ 141,659.

$ 8,136,597

The Juror

2

$ 117,017

$ 8,411,178

Bed of Roses

4

$ 66,129

$ 3,939,323

Dead Man
Walking

6

$ 64,109

$ 3,571,559

White Squall

5

$ 57,170

$ 3,908,514

From Dusk
Till Dawn

8

$ 51,462

$ 2,478,318

12 Monkeys

7

$ 46,846

$ 2,925,795

Jumanji

9 .

$ 45,201

$ 2,278,067

Eye for an Eye

11

$ 44,116

$ 2,206,217

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