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Film critic John Anderson's review of Radical Hollywood by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner ["Screening Our Politics," Aug. 19/26] shows a conventional disregard of Hollywood labor history. He writes that last year's threatened strike by the Writers Guild was "largely about credits," which is only partly true. And that the "secret" 1933 meeting to organize the guild was also "largely over the issue of credits." (It was secret because the studios used industrial spies to unionbust.) Anderson seems to suggest that it's all about egos and also, yes, money.
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