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...clinch. The movie looks wonderful, so does everyone in it. When Myrna Loy wrinkles her nose it makes you wait for weeks to see a girl at a party who's got that talent. Nick and Nora Charles, it's repeated often, were modeled on Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman. That spirit made it as far as the book, but the film's a whole different deal. For one thing, it's hard to imagine Hellman being cute by wrinkling the nose she once threw herself from a tree to break for an excuse to have it reset: afterward...
Comp Lit 108 deals with French, English, and American fiction and poetry with a historical perspective. The course treats women authors such as Marguerite de Navarre, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Colette, Sylvia Plath, and Lillian Hellman...
...always nervous when I hear my own plays," confessed Lillian Hellman, 70, who gritted her way through an evening of Hellman read by the likes of Christopher Plummer, Mildred Natwick, and Jane Fonda. The New York City tribute to the playwright benefited the Committee for Public Justice, a civil liberties organization she founded in 1970. Noting that friends she had not seen in 20 years had called up asking for tickets, the author of The Little Foxes and The Children's Hour greeted the occasion with typical hauteur. "I'm appalled," she laughed. "Appalled that anyone would think...
...suspected Communists and fellow travelers by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late '40s and early '50s. The witnesses are exclusively from the Hollywood and Broadway communities and include, among others, such figures as Larry Parks, Jose Ferrer, Abe Burrows, Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, Lillian Hellman, Lionel Slander, Arthur Miller and Paul Robeson. (Bentley seems no less inclined than HUAC to sprinkle Stardust in order to germinate publicity...
...dramatic impact, it is in the display of grace, or disgrace, under pressure. Some witnesses are wily, some cringe, some babble to save themselves in a variety of plea bargaining, some show valor. It is honorable that Arthur Miller will incriminate no one but him self and that Lillian Hellman's credo is, "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." But that does not automatically brand the men who confessed and "named names" as mor al lepers. When Stalin has been your god, how do you redeem your guilt...