Lillian Hellman

In January 1980, also as a guest on the Dick Cavett show, Mary McCarthy called Lillian Hellman "a dishonest writer" and claimed that "every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'"

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Mr. Kanfer avoids naming Bogart's many imitators, but I can recall that even before his death Bogart's spirit glimmered in Edward R. Murrow (the trench coat, the cigarette); in Jack Kennedy (Irish toughness, Harvard wit); in old white-shoe veterans of lonely World War II parachute drops with the OSS; in the writer Lillian Hellman, until she was revealed as a sanctimonious liar not long before her death.

Cool Is as Cool Was Henry Allen 2011

Its point of departure is Mary McCarthy's famous quip about Lillian Hellman: Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'

Don't Blame Mary McCarthy Barton Swaim 2011

But Lillian Hellman's lies were actually lies; she based the latter half of her literary career on intentional, egregious untruths about herself and others.

Don't Blame Mary McCarthy Barton Swaim 2011

Her only stage appearances were starring opposite Burton in Private Lives, Coward's bittersweet comedy of marriage and divorce that perfectly reflected their relationship, and as the southern bitch Regina in a 1981 revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, the London version of which showed up the inadequacy of her stagecraft.

Elizabeth Taylor remembered by Philip French | Feature 2011

The beautiful Martha Dodd and her wealthy husband, Alfred Stern, threw fabulous parties in their penthouse apartment in the Majestic that attracted such notable leftists as Lillian Hellman, Paul Robeson, Margaret Bourke-White, and Clifford Odets.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

Thirty-six hours after I'd left home I arrived, looking like Lillian Hellman days before her death.

A First-Class Pain Ride John Waters 2011

Its point of departure is Mary McCarthy's famous quip about Lillian Hellman: Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'

Don't Blame Mary McCarthy Barton Swaim 2011

The beautiful Martha Dodd and her wealthy husband, Alfred Stern, threw fabulous parties in their penthouse apartment in the Majestic that attracted such notable leftists as Lillian Hellman, Paul Robeson, Margaret Bourke-White, and Clifford Odets.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

But Lillian Hellman's lies were actually lies; she based the latter half of her literary career on intentional, egregious untruths about herself and others.

Don't Blame Mary McCarthy Barton Swaim 2011