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Released from jail early in 1935, Chiang Ch'ing resumed her acting career, gaining some fame for her portrayal of Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House and then appearing in several popular films. In 1937, however, her career as an actress came to an end. At the time, Japan began its full-scale invasion of China. The Communists' Red Army had just completed its epic Long March from the Southeast to its new headquarters at Yenan in remote northern Shensi province...
...translations of Western plays, like those of Ibsen or Shaw, that were deemed by one of the dozens of left-wing sects to have a social message. One of Chiang Ch'ing's favorite roles in Shanghai was in A Doll's House. She played Nora as a modern female rebel, a fact she proudly remembers...
...magazine which manages to offend more people than all its competitors combined. But more interesting than any of the legal issues raised by the conviction is the ambivalent nature of the anger which surrounds it. Everyone who has voiced public disapproval of the court decision, from Nat Hentoff and Nora Ephron to the New York Times, has prefaced his comments with a strong statement deploring the "offensiveness" of Hustler. Journalists are rushing to protect not the odious Larry Flynt but rather the principle of the first amendment, in other words, themselves. This ruffled condemnation and self-consciously fierce separation...
...raunchy Stag and Cheri, hinges on the absolute degradation of women. Page after page shows women being strung up, knocked down, beaten with objects too numerous to mention, pierced in places too delicate to mention, and I would go on, but I have my roommates to consider. When Nora Ephron withdrew her name from a newspaper advertisement protesting Larry Flynt's conviction, I do not think she was especially offended by the "blue collar" sensibilities of Hustler. I do not think sophisticated French pronography would have been any more palatable to her. Empress Katharine and her pedigreed white horse...
Such tactics are not always necessary. In 1973 conscience-stricken Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz sold his beloved country home to repay $17,500 owed Simon & Schuster for an unwritten tome on the 1960s. Nora Ephron (Crazy Salad) has paid the last of $14,000 she owed Viking for a never-written history of the liquor industry...