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ProfessorTom's avatar

I could have swore that was Dalton Trumbo.

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Don Martin's avatar

I have been looking for the source. Is Dalton a real person, or just a folk hero?

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ProfessorTom's avatar

I’m not sure if this is more of your style of humor or if you really don’t know.

Dalton Trumbo was a real guy. He was a screenwriter who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era, but, despite the fact wound up writing the screenplays for Exodus and Spartacus while blacklisted (among other screenplays.)

Trumbo was famous for sitting in the bathtub while writing.

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Don Martin's avatar

That's EXACTLY what I was going to say. oh and incidentally... I have heard this all my life... thanks "I’m not sure if this is more of your style of humor or if you really don’t know." (young journalistic upstart suggests the Proffessor Tom be allowed to eat cake.)

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