Big-Time Celebrities Who Don't Get Hired Anymore

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes was a popular poet back in the day. He was blacklisted because his poetry would occasionally appear in communist papers. Sadly, these papers were never given permission to use his poems, but the folks who blacklisted him didn't care about that. 

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The More You Know

  • Tom Hanks helped pay for ‘Forrest Gump’
  • Ronald Reagan was originally announced as the lead for Casablanca. The proclamation turned out to simply be a ruse to keep the actor’s name in the press.
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  • Jim Caviezel was struck by lightening while he was on the cross in, Passion of the Christ.
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