But in the 1950s Columbia regained its stature through its backing of various independent producers and directors, among them Elia Kazan, Fred Zinnemann, David Lean, Robert Rossen, Otto Preminger, and Joseph Losey.
Elia Kazan - the friend who had denounced so many decent Americans and would have denounced Miller had he known of his earlier communist associations - was excused if not exonerated.
When he heard that Elia Kazan, the director with whom he had worked since All My Sons, had agreed to cooperate with the UnAmerican Activities Committee and give the names of the men and women he had met at meetings of the Communist Writers Associationn, Miller could barely bring himself to speak to his old friend.
Elia Viviani (Cannondale), 2 15.
Mr Elia has other interests, including Halcyon Investments in Jersey, which tried to rescue Globespan, Allbury Travel, now in administration, and a small German bank.
It gave the special jury prize to "Divine Intervention", a witty blend of Tatiesque comedy, ninja high jinks and frustrated love on the West Bank by a Palestinian director-cum-film-star, Elia Suleiman.
The bigger question is whether Suez will sell its stakes in Fluxys, a gas-distribution company; Distrigas, a gas-trading company; or Elia, a grid operator, as some Belgian politicians are demanding.
She was a hypocritical "bitch with balls", in the words of Elia Kazan, a film director, who seethed at Hellman's self-righteous take on the McCarthy era.This is the backdrop of "A Difficult Woman".
On January 5th Mr Elia proposed deferring payment until 12 months have elapsed since Go Travel Direct's last booking, as a precaution against late claims.PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), acting as administrator for Globespan, calculates that E-Clear is holding back £35m of payments by Globespan customers, of which only £15m might be justified.
Dr Elia has published her analysis of this experiment in the Quarterly Review of Biology.
So the unprofitable bank is not much use to E-Clear; last year it even had to increase the bank's capital, putting in €3m (£2.E-Clearlear has replaced Deutsche Bank with another merchant-acquiring partner but will not reveal its name "for commercial reasons", Mr Elia says.
