Blacklisting Myself: Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror »

Blacklisting Myself details Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Roger L. Simon's odyssey from financier of the Black Panther Breakfast Program to darling of the political right. In this tale of Hollywood radical chic run amuck, Simon relates his adventures with Richard Pryor, Warren Beatty, Woody Allen and real-life Hollywood KGB officers. Among the topics covered along the way: the new blacklist for conservatives in tinseltown and how new media will destroy Hollywood as we know it.

1 "Only Victims" 1

2 From South Carolina Backwards 13

3 Moses Wine Is Born 25

4 Daddy Rich, Abbie, The Baby Moguls, And My Early Brush with Identity Politics 51

5 The 1980s Vintage 71

6 Paul and the Days of Success 83

7 The International Association of Crime Writers, Three Trips to Russia, and How I Came To Be Recruited by the KGB 103

8 Evolution: The Birth of an Accidental Online Apostate CEO 131

9 Father Timothy and My Three Wives 143

10 OJ Changed My Life 155

11 Why They Hate the Neocons 161

12 The New Blacklist 168

13 The Rise of the "Mini-Me" 175

14 Extended Family Values and The Godfather 179

15 Satori in the Modern Age of Conservative Liberals 187

Index 191