Roger L. Simon (1) (1943–)
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Sobre El Autor
Roger L. Simon made his living writing novels and screenplays before co-founding the pioneering blog-aggregation and news and opinion website PJ Media (formerly Pajamas Media) in 2005. He is known for his prize-winning Moses Wine detective novels and for his screenplays: The Big Fix (with Richard mostrar más Dreyfuss), Bustin' Loose (with Richard Pryor), Scenes from a Mall (with Bette Midler and Woody Allen), and Enemies, a Love Story, for which Simon was nominated for an Academy Award. Simon also directed the independent feature Prague Duet. He has taught screenwriting at the Sundance Institute and the American Film Institute and has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Commentary, and the New fork Post. He has also appeared as a political commentator on numerous talk radio and television shows. Simon is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Yale School of Drama. mostrar menos
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Simon, Roger L.
- Nombre legal
- Simon, Roger Lichtenberg
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1943-11-22
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
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También Puede Gustarte
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- Obras
- 15
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 426
- Popularidad
- #57,313
- Valoración
- 3.3
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 86
- Idiomas
- 7
- Favorito
- 1
Our hyper-PC world is so full of snap judgment decisions and knee jerk volatile reactions, speaking your truth can get you eviscerated on all sides - from all radii of every spectrum. In a world where everything has been reduced to out of context clips or random tweets (or who sponsored the message or controls the medium), one meaningful or revealing comment can get you locked in a box with a label slapped on you forevermore by the smug, erroneous conclusion that that single utterance somehow reveals all the layers to your opinion and is the launch sequence for all the presumed toggle switches that define your entire life's belief systems.
Usually, this is done by hypo (and hyper) critical people, oblivious to their own ludicrous dualities, who are just too terrified to take a cold hard look at the provenance of their own values - much less ever truly challenge them - to really, truly have earned the right to proselytize (not that that's ever welcome). Instead, they are free to roam the earth, judging and pointing fingers, deliriously oblivious to their own delusions as to the inconsistencies between what they preach and how they "model" it.
I could go on and on - but this started out as a book review. Obviously, it got me thinking.
In Blacklisting Myself, Roger L. Simon has the balls to come out of the Hollywood political closet and lay his cards on the table. I respect that. Further, I agree with him on almost every point. And his journey is painfully poignant to so many in the artistic and entrepreneurial global arena.
An Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and mystery novelist, Roger L. Simon went from Mother Jones liberal, financing the Black Panther Breakfast Program; through some eerily familiar (let's call them "development," rather than "horror") stories with Richard Pryor, Warren Beatty, Timothy Leary, Richard Dreyfuss, Woody Allen and even an odd, few hour blip with Barbra Streisand; to pioneering as one of the first modern Americans to get behind the iron curtain to see the real People's Republic of China, Cuba and the Soviet Union (including a veiled KGB recruitment), to the elusive and fleeting red carpet moments, to a National Review endorsed 9/11 Democrat, to being an early adopter of - or shall we say, capitalizer on - the freedom of speech afforded in our new Wild West, our final frontier: the burgeoning blogosphere.
His is a fascinating and thoughtful, appreciably self-deprecating without posturing that he's figured it all out yet - but on a sincere and genuine quest through many of the contemporary and relevant -isms: Marxism, Freudianism, Libertarianism, Laissez-Faire Capitalism, Zen Buddhism, Quaker Pacifism, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalsim to his terror at the surging Islamofascism.
Defying all labels - or at least stringently trying to jockey them - this is a refreshing memoir full of profound personal insights along an interesting journey, surveying the cross-section of politics, religion and media from the sixties to the post 9/11 new millennium.… (más)