Exclusive: Before his death Bean said, 'TV and film are always slipping in political messages, not ones designed to bring us together but to divide us.'
Actor Orson Bean, a conservative in liberal Hollywood, attends the premiere of Columbia Picture's 'The Equalizer 2' at TCL Chinese Theatre on July 17, 2018 in Hollywood, California. Bean was killed in a car accident on February 7, 2020.I had my first conversation with actor Orson Bean shortly after the 2012 death of his son-in-law, Andrew Breitbart, the political commentator who was a sworn enemy of activist progressives.
, which touches on his political transformation and his eventual embrace of Christianity and explores the actor-comedian's long tenure in Hollywood. He was instrumental in launching Barbra Streisand's career when he booked her onwhile guest-hosting for Jack Paar, for example."Orson Bean was so sweet. So kind. He put me on my first TV show," Streisand tweeted after Bean was killed at age 91.
Prior to his death, Bean could be seen at parties thrown by"Friends of Abe." Known as FOA, it was a private group of 2,500 people in film, music and television who didn't share Hollywood's famous liberalism. Founded by actors Gary Sinise, Kelsey Grammer, Patricia Heaton and others, the group disbanded after about a decade when the press"outed" its existence.
I wasn't a Communist, but I was horny for a Communist girl so I went to some meetings with her. I was a big lefty, as you're supposed to be when you're in your 20s, and I got involved with the union, which was so split that in meetings if you sat on the left side you were seen as a Communist and if you were seated on the right you were seen as supportive of the blacklist.
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