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...gripe shared by many other voters: he couldn't figure out the candidate's stand on foreign policy. But then Young made up his mind that Carter's instincts must be right "if Jimmy's momma went to India in the Peace Corps." "Miss Lillian raised her boy Jimmy in a spirit of idealism mixed with the spirit of tough determination," said the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations last week in a speech before the Synagogue Council of America. The occasion was the presentation of the council's peace prize to Miss Lillian...
Julia's problems trace back to its source, a Lillian Hellman story that appeared in her 1973 memoir, Pentimento...
Julia, based on a section of Lillian Hellman's autobiographical book Pentimento, is a sensitive, occasionally self-conscious story of Hellman's lifelong friendship with a woman she calls Julia. The film recounts the girls' adolescent escapades while revealing the foundations of the political beliefs that will eventually take Julia from medical school at Oxford to a workers' community in Vienna. The women are separated through most of their lives; but Julia's need for Hellman's aid in her anti-fascist activities prior to World War II reunite them, with repercussions that even a writer of dime state...
...wanted the challenge of playing this other woman, Lillian Hellman, who was so different from me. I didn't spend very much time with her-just a day and a half-but I read everything she wrote. What was particularly helpful to me were her plays. Somehow the spirit of the woman, the subconscious, was more in the plays...
...portray women who on some level are either neurotic or lacking in something-desperately needing the love of a man, or just plain superficial. Whenever a man-woman relationship comes along, there's always some game playing, and this was a film where there was no game playing. Lillian was relentlessly what she was, you know, as was Julia...