Caught Red Handed By Daniel J. Flynn
Warren Beatty's 1981 love story Reds about American Communist Party founding father Jack Reed and paramour Louise Bryant left a crucial, embarrassing detail on the cutting room floor.
Jack Reed, the playboy of the Greenwich Village Left who practiced the free love that he preached, infected his wife with a dangerous venereal disease. Neither Reds nor the two major American biographies about Reed -- Granville Hicks's John Reed and Roger Rosenstone's Romantic Revolutionary -- note this inconvenient detail. Who has time for VD when there's a free-love love story to be told?
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