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A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left.(Review)
by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.275 pp., illus. Hardcover: $27.50.
Abraham Polonsky, who was blacklisted at the very moment when he seemed to be developing into a major artist, was responsible for two of the most memorable closing lines in the history of American media, both of them shaped as answers to rhetorical questions. First was John Garfield's remark to a gangster at the end of Body and Soul (1947): "Whaddya gonna do, kill me? Everybody dies." Second was Walter Cronkite's address to the audience at the end of the You Are There television series on CBS in the early Fifties: "What kind of day was it? A day ...
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