Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LITTLE FOXES by Lillian Hellman...
...President Jimmy Carter: As far as I know, no American President has ever helped Israel as much as Jimmy Carter. I cannot claim that Israel has responded with appropriate gratitude. On one visit to the White House, I noticed that Miss Lillian wore a Jewish medallion...
...Calvin Coolidge, Millard Fillmore, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sir Winston Churchill (middle name: Spencer) is a cousin, as is former Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Scholarly limbs include Historian Henry Adams, Philosopher Bertrand Russell and Lexicographer Noah Webster. Theatrical boughs: Humphrey Bogart and Lillian Gish...
Perhaps one reason for this uncharacteristic reticence is that Faulkner was among the names Hemingway had in mind. Letter to Lillian Ross, 1953: "I cannot help but think that people who talk about God as though they knew him intimately and had received The Word etc. are frauds. Faulkner has always been fairly fraudulent but it is only recently that he has introduced God when he is conning people...
...previously scheduled July 4 closing date, then take the production to New Orleans, Los Angeles and possibly London as well. "She's the hottest draw I've ever seen!" he exulted. "The tension is building. It's as if every night is an opening." Even Playwright Lillian Hellman, who had refused to allow her Foxes to come to Broadway with other stars, has joined the Taylor fan club. "I've turned down a great many offers before this one," she says. "But Elizabeth is the right person at the right age at the right time...