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Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts) Sat Sep 19, 2020, 09:57 PM Sep 2020

Watching 1971 Dick Cavett interview of Lillian Hellman [View all]

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/jan/22/lillian-hellman-childrens-hour-sarah-churchwell

Great playwright who stood up to the right wing assholes of her time.

I don’t have the link to the video

Listening to her you would think it was now, but it is worse now than any time in history because well folks it’s over. We’re gonna have to start new. We can do it.

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Watching 1971 Dick Cavett interview of Lillian Hellman [View all] Eliot Rosewater Sep 2020 OP

There are a ton of Dick Cavett shows on YouTube BannonsLiver Sep 2020 #1

Such a good interviewer and everybody loved him Eliot Rosewater Sep 2020 #2

Yes he's still going BannonsLiver Sep 2020 #3

Not '71, but a '73 interview between Dick and Lillian JHB Sep 2020 #4

How wonderful! smirkymonkey Sep 2020 #5

Maybe that's the same one might've had the wrong year Eliot Rosewater Sep 2020 #6

Only if you like an unrepentant Stalinist. Sneederbunk Sep 2020 #7