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To: SeekAndFind
Lillian Hellman has had plenty of negative press - at least two bios that have run her reputation into the ground. There is even a book written by her temporary secretary that makes her out as a monster.

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.

2 posted on 02/24/2018 7:23:05 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Joe was right!
To the hilt.


4 posted on 02/24/2018 7:31:26 AM PST by IWontSubmit (2)
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To: miss marmelstein

I saw “Toys in the Attic” in the fifties————great play.

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7 posted on 02/24/2018 7:34:32 AM PST by Mears
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To: miss marmelstein

“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.


8 posted on 02/24/2018 7:35:49 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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