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...Mallory Hellman contributed to the reporting of this story...
...reads any of us," laments Lillian Hellman in Imaginary Friends, Nora Ephron's new play about the literary feud between Hellman and Mary McCarthy. To be sure, these two writers are remembered at least as much for their spoken words as for the ones they put on paper. Hellman, the playwright and longtime leftist, made a famous show of defiance before the House Un-American Activities Committee: "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." McCarthy, an essayist and novelist who couldn't abide Hellman's politics or penchant for mixing fact and fiction...
Ephron has imagined the two of them (Swoosie Kurtz, brittle and snappish as Hellman; Cherry Jones, elegant and withering as McCarthy) meeting in the afterlife, railing at each other anew. "I ruined your third act!" exults McCarthy. "I was your third act!" retorts Hellman. Ephron's play, alas, has two acts full of distractions and gimmicks. There are childhood flashbacks that force grown actresses to talk like widdle girls. The literary men in their lives (Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv) are trotted on and off the stage like stuffed dummies. There are actual stuffed dummies too--a cutesy stage device that...
Green was contacted in the spring of 2000 by filmmakers Barbara Leverwitz and Jamie Hellman, who had drawn their names from western Los Angeles high schools, and finally chose him and classmates Holly Sedillos and Corky Bennett to star in the documentary...
...Whether you care about Hellman's case or not, $15 for 250 pages of comics still works out to a great deal. "Legal Action Comics" takes the shotgun approach to anthology-making. Some contributions are unreadable, but with so many of them you always find something enjoyable within a few pages. The creation of this book will inevitably be the best thing born out of such asinine circumstances...