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THIS RESPECT for history is perhaps at the root of her highly celebrated feud with Lillian Hellman, the playwright and author. "The fact is that I think people have become increasingly concerned with the factual basis of Miss Hellman's recreation of history," she says. The dispute is a long-standing one, dating back to the publication of Miss Hellman's Scoundrel Time, which singles out Lionel and Diana Trilling as too sympathetic with the "scoundrels" of the McCarthy era. The Trillings, however, maintained that it was possible to oppose the red baiting tactics of the '50s without explicitly endorsing...
...says initially there is "no point" in talking about Miss Hellman, but nevertheless commences a stream of pointed criticisms. "Scoundrel Time? Listen to the title of the book. My book is called Mrs. Harris. Her book is called Scoundrel Time. I'm called judgmental," she says, laughing. "The whole book is an indictment.... Why doesn't somebody say, `You can't go around calling people scoundrels; that is not the way you deal with history.' And writing a whole book in order to prove that you are the most virtuous person...
...Waiting for Lefty," the play that made him famous, is a perfect example of the class-oriented drama fashionable at the time. Like Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine or Arthur Miller's All My Sons, Lefty was everywhere acknowledged to be as much a political statement as an artistic one. It was quickly hailed in the left-wing press; the drama critic of the Daily Worker called it "frankly revolutionary propaganda...the most exciting theater this reporter has seen in many months...
Ride the Whirlwind (1965, wrote, acted) d. Hellman...
...Shooting (1965, co-produced, acted) d. Hellman...