A FAMOUS LITERARY FEUD MAKES GREAT DRAMA In 1980, in a television interview with Dick Cavett, novelist and literary critic Mary McCarthy made an especially biting comment about her longtime adversary and fellow writer, playwright and memoirist Lillian Hellman, saying that "every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" Unfortunately, Hellman was […]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:41AM on March 24, 2014