The problem is: Hellman was a fine playwright. Several of her plays are continually reproduced in London where they still appreciate “the well-written” play. And so, while a politician fades in memory, the artist lives on.
McCarthy was, of course, referring to Hellman's preposterous memoirs that are filled with lies. McCarthy was no bargain either.
Joe was right!
To the hilt.
I saw “Toys in the Attic” in the fifties————great play.
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“The problem is: Hellman was a fine playwright.”
And Leni Riefenstahl was a pioneering cinematographer. In other words, “We must separate the artist from their art” as they used to say about Frank Sinatra after one of his violent outbursts.
Sorry, it didn’t work for Not-So-Hotra and it doesn’t work for Hellman. At least Ol’ Blue Eyes didn’t defend the evil Soviet Union.
As lefties like to say, the personal IS the political.