Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mind-bending drugs and, quite possibly, a transorbital lobotomy-is the stuff nightmares and film biographies are made of. Now a company of film makers is attempting just that: Frances, a $10 million movie starring Jessica Lange as the doomed actress and Kim Stanley as her wildly eccentric mother Lillian...
Farmer didn't have to go to Hollywood for that. She had a character assassin right at home: her own mommie dear est, Lillian. Six feet tall and fearsome as a Pauline Bunyan, Lillian made headlines in World War I when she crossbred a Rhode Island Red, a White Leghorn and an Andalusian Blue to produce a red-white-and-blue chicken-the Bird Americana-as she called it, which she proposed as the new national emblem. By the time of the next World War, Lillian was convinced that the Communists had driven her poor daughter crazy...
...eerily appropriate that Lillian in the film is Kim Stanley, the imposing stage actress who 25 years ago played yet another troubled movie star in Paddy Chayefsky's The Goddess. Stanley still has star quality: when Mel Brooks, Hollywood's reigning zany and the executive producer of Frances, was told that she might be available to play Lillian, Brooks jumped on his desk for joy. Stanley, the holder of a master's degree in psychology from the University of Texas, looks at her role and says, "Lillian mixed her identity with Frances'. She was in love...
THIS RESPECT for history is perhaps at the root of her highly celebrated feud with Lillian Hellman, the playwright and author. "The fact is that I think people have become increasingly concerned with the factual basis of Miss Hellman's recreation of history," she says. The dispute is a long-standing one, dating back to the publication of Miss Hellman's Scoundrel Time, which singles out Lionel and Diana Trilling as too sympathetic with the "scoundrels" of the McCarthy era. The Trillings, however, maintained that it was possible to oppose the red baiting tactics of the '50s without explicitly endorsing...
...Lillian Menasche Katz, 54, started the $42 million Lillian Vernon Corp. in the back of her former husband's dress shop in Mount Vernon, N.Y., with an initial investment of $2,000. Her current offerings are utilitarian (a wall-mounted kitchen scale), frivolous (an initialed toothpaste tube squeezer) or elegant (a nickel-plated travel shaving brush...