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...Nichols and Elaine May did a routine about the first Jewish President. Phoned by his mother and scolded for not having called her, "President" Nichols pleads: "Mother, I was choosing a Cabinet. I didn't have a second." Retorts "Mother" May: "It's always something." Afterward, Miss Lillian insisted: "I'm not that kind of mother...
...everyone adjusted at once to the transformation. Hamilton Jordan, Carter's longtime aide, allowed as how it would be difficult to go from calling him Jimmy to the more formal Mr. President. After the Inaugural speech, Miss Lillian protested, "I don't like it. I don't like everybody calling him Mr. President." To set his family at ease, Carter, in a private moment in a room in the Capitol a few minutes after the swearing-in, asked if they had ever seen his 18-month-old grandson Jason imitate him. "Come on, Jason, smile like Jimmy...
Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave star in Julia, a film taken from Lillian Hellman's autobiography. The producers went out of their way for authenticity. For a scene depicting the festive party after Hellman's first Broadway triumph, Sardi's restaurant, off Schubert Alley, was duplicated right down to the caricatures of actors on the walls-all in London, of course...
Despite the waves of tourists and newsmen who are washing over Plains (pop. 683) and providing brisk business for the Peanut Museum, the sandwich shop, and the new stores selling what Miss Lillian calls "Jimmy-things," the main pastime still seems to be memory-as it is in all villages, Southern or otherwise, where people lead lives of work and family. Stop most anyone you see-they're generally stoppable-and he or she will soon be spinning you a web of recollection to entertain you both. They tend to start with Carters, since that...
SCOUNDREL TIME by Lillian Hellman. After years of silence, the formidable author vents her fury about her costly encounters with the Mc-Carthyism of the early...