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146.Norman Mailer interview with Carol Brightman, Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World (Clarkson Potter, 1992), 617.
147.Asked in 2013 about roles she regretted turning down, Barbra Streisand named the Hellman character (portrayed by Jane Fonda) in Julia.
148.S. J. Perelman to Pat Kavanagh, October 18, 1976.
149.LH, Three, 659.
150.Ibid., 675
151.Ibid., 609.
152.New York Times, July 30, 1976.
153.Spectator, November 13, 1976.
154.Hilton Kramer, “The Life and Death of Lillian Hellman,” New Criterion, October 1984.
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155.www.ontheredcarpet.com, Redgrave’s political speech, which included references to “Zionist hoodlums,” was considered inappropriate for the occasion and provoked boos and hissing.
156.Feibleman, Lilly, 225.
157.McCarthy quoted in Carol Brightman, Writing Dangerous, 600.
158.LH, Paris Review, Winter-Spring 1965.
159.Feibleman, Lilly, 283.
160.Ibid., 284.
161.Martha Gellhorn, Paris Review, Spring 1981.
162.Martha Gellhorn to Hortense Flexner, May 14, 1960, in Caroline Moorehead, Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn (Holt, 2007), 277.
163.LH, Three, 111.
164.Martha Gellhorn, Paris Review, Spring 1981.
165.Renata Adler, Pitch Dark (Knopf, 1983), 5.
166.The accepted explanation for Hellman’s knowledge of Muriel Gardiner’s underground activities involves Wolfgang S. Schwabacher, a prominent attorney and a director of the Viking Press who died in 1951. His wife, Ethel, an abstract expressionist painter, died in 1984, but apparently did not involve herself in the controversy. For ten years the Schwabachers shared a two-family house in Pennington, New Jersey, with Gardiner and her family.
167.New York Times, April 29, 1983.
168.Feibleman, Lilly, 308. A memoir by a summer helper, Rosemary Mahoney, confirmed that employment by Hellman was never for the faint of heart. (A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman, Doubleday, 1998.)
169.William Styron, Selected Letters of William Styron, edited by Rose Styron, with R. Blakeslee Gilpin (Random House, 2012), 556.
170.LH, Eating Together, 76.
171.Feibleman, Lilly, 332.
172.Ibid., 362.
173.Paul O’Dwyer conversation with MM, February 1987.
174.Schenectady Gazette, March 21, 1988.
175.Ibid. The NAACP had moved its headquarters from New York to Baltimore in 1986.
176.Rockland County Journal News, January 23, 1989.
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177.DP, “Inventory,” Portable, 96.
178.DP, Portable, 552.
179.DP, “Untitled Lament, Circa 1927,” Portable, 555.
180.DP, Portable, 552.
181.Nora Ephron, “Lillian Hellman Walking, Cooking, Writing, Talking,” New York Times, September 23, 1973.
182.Hilary Mills e-mail to MM, March 7, 2013.
183.New York Times, June 21, 2012.
184.Dorothy Gallagher, Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life (Jewish Lives Series, Yale University Press, 2014), 4.
185.LH, Three, 659.
186.Carl Rollyson e-mail to MM.
187.LH, Three, 651.
188.DP, Portable, 240.
189.The concluding paragraphs were previously published in “Estate of Mind,” MM, Bookforum, April/May 2006, 8.
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190.Rita Wade phone conversation with MM, April 5, 2005.
191.Peter Feibleman e-mail to MM, November 19, 2005.
192.Rita Wade phone conversation with MM, November 22, 2005.