A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

He participated in union politics and establiAbraham Polonskyd and edited a left-wing newspaper The Home Front. Filmography
Golden Earring (with Frank Butler and Helen Deutsch) (1947)
Body and Soul (1947)
Force of Evil (with Ira Wolfert) (1948) (also Director)
I Can Get It for You Wholesale (with Vera Caspary) (1951)
Odds Against Tomorrow (with Nelson Gidding) (1959) (uncredited)
Kraft Suspense Theatre (1965) (TV)
Seaway (1965) (TV)
Madigan (with Howard A. A Marxist until his death Polonsky publicly objected when director Irwin Winkler rewrote his script for 1991's Guilty by Suspicion a film about the Hollywood blacklist era by revising the lead character (Robert De Niro) into a liberal rather than a Communist.

Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (December 5 1910 - October 26 1999) was an American film director Academy-Award-nominated screenwriter essayist and novelist blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s in the midst of the McCarthy era.