Word: blacklisting
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...Virgin Atlantic Airways. In the aftermath of the assault on Weir, who required 18 stitches, Branson engineered a British lifetime air-travel ban on Handy. As the industry convened last month in London to address the overall problem, he urged carriers to establish a worldwide air-rage database to blacklist the worst offenders. "There [must] be a deterrent against this behavior," Branson says...
DIED. LEO PENN, 77, actor who survived a decade on the Hollywood blacklist to become an award-winning television director and raise show-biz progeny Sean, Chris and Michael; in Los Angeles. After appearances on Broadway and a studio contract in the 1940s, Penn was blacklisted for supporting the Hollywood 10. He found work behind the camera, directing more than 400 hours of prime-time programming, including episodes of Kojak, St. Elsewhere and Columbo, for which he won a 1973 Emmy...
Michael Levine, Heston's publicist, believes the actor's outspokenness has damaged his career. "There's a reverse blacklist," he says. "It is far better in Hollywood to admit you're a drug addict than a conservative." But Heston, having just wrapped his 75th film, Gideon's Webb, shrugs off the concern. "People in the film community think being politically active means getting on Air Force One and going to dinner at the White House," he says. "I've scorned a few liberals in this town, and I get a kick out of that." Only six weeks ago, he called...
Indeed, an uncomfortable irony seems to have escaped the notice of most observers: While Libya remains on the state department's terrorism blacklist, Qaddafi was given the Good Hope award precisely for his early assistance of the ANC in its struggle against Apartheid, a struggle which often took the form of terrorist attacks against South African civilians...