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...years, but then its charmed life began to bleed away. One cause was Red baiting by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. TV cut into attendance. It became commonplace to shoot movies abroad, beyond the easy control of studios. Hollywood's civility, soured by the blacklist that the studios said did not exist, was further strained by the expulsion of Actress Ingrid Bergman in 1949 for her adulterous love affair with Director Roberto Rossellini. Ancient history now; the author must explain that adultery once was shocking, and in other chapters, that Hollywood's casual, persistent racism and anti...
Hopper's name was taken off Hollywood's blacklist, and with studio financing, he went off to the jungles of Peru to make another visionary film, prophetically titled The Last Movie. Image rich but incoherent, it vanished almost overnight and so, as far as Hollywood was concerned, did Hopper, who went into a self-imposed exile in Mexico and Europe, where he acted in a few movies, and in Taos, N. Mex., where he had a house...
These matching programs send a Big Brotherly chill down more than a few spines. To keep the Government out of the electronic dossier and blacklist business, the Privacy Act of 1974 prohibited federal agencies from exchanging data about private citizens without their consent. Yet the Administration, despite the protests of the A.C.L.U. and other watchdog groups, is planning to expand further its computer matching efforts to include families applying for college loans, veterans using VA hospitals and rural families asking the Farmers Home Administration for low-interest housing loans...
...refusing to pay her rent. Finally, Delgado discovered the source of her trouble: her name had been added to an electronic registry of "bad tenant risks" available by subscription to any local property owner. As party to a tenant-landlord suit, Delgado had been automatically included in a computer blacklist...
...computer-blacklist industry already has its giants. Such credit bureaus as TRW Information Services in Orange, Calif., and Equifax Inc. in Atlanta have long relied on huge banks of mainframe computers to provide consumer credit records for banks, department stores, finance companies and employers. Every working day, TRW's machines handle an average of 255,000 requests, culling information from a massive data base that contains detailed records of the bill-paying habits of 133 million people...