Dorothy Parker's distaste for Hollywood was legendary and all too understandable. Not crazy about the opening to this article on Gail Crowther’s new book (Dorothy Parker in Hollywood), but Hollywood had fewer more trenchant and intelligent critics than Parker.
Dorothy Parker was a lifelong defender of civil rights and civil liberties. When she died, she left her estate to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as this article describes. After his assassination, her cremated remains variously resided in a crematory in Westchester County, a Manhattan lawyer's office, , a garden outside NAACP headquarters.
Sometimes, getting on the television blacklist came down to having supported an event in the past, often many years ago.