Mr. Trumbo, a well-known screenwriter in the 1950's, whose films included "Exodus" and "Spartacus," was given new credits on a handful of other the Writers Guild said.
Simcha Jacobovici, whose mesmerizing film "The Exodus Decoded" will be televised tomorrow on the History Channel, is a fitting hero of this age.
The former heavyweight world champion boxer was left devastated when little Exodus - whose mother was the sportsman's second wife Monica Turner - died in a horrific accident in May 2009 after a cord from a treadmill became wrapped around her neck and while he wanted to deal with the situation with anger, he was humbled by the reactions of other parents in the same situation.
"The Lost Tomb of Jesus" is enjoyable, mostly because it is scripted like a cryptology treasure hunt and centered on the Indiana Jones-ish persona of Simcha Jacobovici, an Israeli-born filmmaker based in Toronto, whose recent documentary "The Exodus Decoded," on the History Channel, argued that the Jews really did flee Egypt by parted sea.
Such a challenge recently came my way in the form of a broadside from Pavle Popovic, a masters student at the University of Leiden in Holland, whose thesis concerns the exodus of Sino-Vietnamese refugees and the reluctance of Margaret Thatcher to open the door to them.
The trip was provided by Exodus (0845 863 9601, exodus.co.uk), whose 15-day Classic South India itinerary costs from £2,199pp including flights, transfers, accommodation and some meals.
Birmingham now has another nickname — Black City, owing to the mass exodus of whites whose flight coincided with the emergence of black political leaders after the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
They came all morning, all afternoon and well into dusk, an exodus of survivors whose only way out of Manhattan was over the bridges that stretch across the East River.
It was Trumbo who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for "Spartacus," "Lonely Are the Brave, Hawaiiii," "Exodus," and "Papillon"; whose personal letters read like Swiftian essays; who had to flee to Mexico and stay for several years, writing under pseudonyms such as Sam Jackson and James Bonham in order to escape McCarthyism; and whom, at this stage in my tunnel-visioned life, I had never heard of.
As the Republicans appealed for votes among Cuban-Americans and other Hispanics, one person who said he was not enamored of the field expressed his distaste: Fidel Castro, the retired Cuban leader whose 1959 takeover prompted the exodus of Cubans to South Florida.
