Elia Kazan, the director of East of Eden and A Streetcar Named Desire, died Sunday. In 1999 Jacob Weisberg wrote about Kazan's honorary Oscar and his controversial legacy as a reformed communist and proud collaborator during the McCarthy era.
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Photograph on Slate's Table of Contents of Elia Kazan in 1989 from Agence France Presse.
