Zero Mostel during the blacklist

Zero Mostel self-portrait

Okay, so, about Zero Mostel's testimony before House Unamerican Activities Committee and his days on the blacklist, there's this from Wikipedia:

His testimony won him admiration in the blacklisted community, and in addition to not naming names he also confronted the committee on ideological matters, something that was rarely done. Among other things, he referred to Twentieth Century Fox as "18th Century Fox" (due to its collaboration with the committee), and manipulated the committee members to make them appear foolish. Mostel later commented "What did they think I was going to do - sell acting secrets to the Russians?"

The admiration he received for his testimony did nothing to take him out of the blacklist, however, and the family had to struggle throughout the 1950s with little income. Mostel used this time to work in his studio. Later he said that he cherished those years for the time it had afforded him to do what he loved most. [emphasis added]

I thought that last part might be helpful somehow to those of us sweating out the pandemic, isolated in our homes. I know that some people are in circumstances more dire than others and some people just like being out in public more that I do. I haven't done much of anything whether I love it or not. I just keep relating everything to the pandemic. War of the Worlds, The Day the World Ended, and now The Front.