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FILM: Griffith’s controversial legacy mixed thanks to ‘Birth of a Nation’

Jeers, protests and rotten eggs — how could any film survive that? “The opposition was there in full force at the premiere,” director D.W. Griffith wrote in his unfinished autobiography “The Man Who Invented Hollywood.” “A riot was brewing. Over the boos, catcalls and hisses were the whistles and applause. It became a contest. The […]

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