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March, 1977
It's Oscar night, 1957. Deborah Kerr announces the winner of the Best Motion Picture Story: Robert Rich, for his work on The Brave One. Applause. Jesse Lasky, Jr., vice-president of the Screen Writers Guild, runs up to receive it for Rich, who, he explains, is at his wife's bedside, awaiting the birth of their first child. Dissolve. The next day, Lasky looks up Robert Rich in the Guild files. No such member, past or present. Then the rumors hit: Robert Rich was actually a pseudonym for black-lis...
