A Photo present for Phyllis Rogers Stone - Page 2

[tazber]

Posted: 7/29/10 at 4:53pm

I just ordered mine from amazon ($11.00). The cover is blah compared to that piece of brilliance that Carlos posted though.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/29/10 at 4:58pm

Is it this one?

[StockardFan]

Posted: 7/29/10 at 7:07pm

I never heard of it either. But I still want that green dress.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/29/10 at 7:57pm

The novel and the movie were also the origin of one of my all-time favorite catchphrases: “Who’d a thunk it?”

The question became so ubiquitous in the later 60s that its fame far eclipse that of Mary McCarthy or "The Group."

Who’d a thunk it?

[twinbelters]

Posted: 8/1/10 at 1:46am

Wow! Jessica Walter!? Love her! Good thing they've got my brands here.

Looks like a fun movie. I will check it out.

Anyone know about the DVD release of Skidoo?

Updated On: 8/2/10 at 01:46 AM

[StockardFan]

Posted: 8/1/10 at 1:54am

I think I might have to look for this book at the library. Because I always have to read the book before I see the movie.

[tazber]

Posted: 8/1/10 at 2:22am

Yes Phyl, that's the one I ordered.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 8/10/10 at 3:31pm

PRS bygones if repeating, but did you see that really brilliant play-with-music about McCarthy and Hellman? Always hated it didn't last longer...kinda got the feeling the NYC critics were gunning for it since the LA premiere got rave reviews. Great cast, fun score, some truly nice writing....just curious if you saw it.

[danmag]

Posted: 8/10/10 at 3:39pm

Oh this is one of my all-time favorite books...love, love, love it!!

And the movie was fabulous as well.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/10/10 at 10:12pm

The play was "Imaginary Friends," by Nora Ephron. In a review of it for the New Yorker, Dick Cavett remembered that Mary McCarthy made the fatal mistake of feuding with Lillian Hellman, the toughest old broad of all the tough old broads that ever were or ever will be. Cavett's nickname for Hellman was "Old Scaly Bird."

On one of his PBS shows in 1979, Cavett was asking McCarthy about overrated writers. First she named John Steinbeck, then Pearl Buck. And then she had the great misfortune to mention Lillian Hellman and said she was...

===

"...tremendously overrated, a bad writer, and a dishonest writer, but she really belongs to the past."

"What's dishonest about her?" I asked.

"Everything," McCarthy replied, smiling. "I said once in some interview that every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.' " There was an "ooh" and a laugh from the audience, but otherwise the moment passed innocuously.

After the taping, the network's lawyer—paid to anticipate litigation—did not utter even his occasional "Dick, we may have a problem." Instead, he said, "Nice show."

During breakfast the next morning, my assistant called. "Have you seen the papers?" she said. "Hellman is suing Mary McCarthy, PBS, and you for two and a quarter million."

"And me?" I replied, in a prepubescent squeak. The other phone rang, and the familiar whiskey-and-cigarettes baritone rasped, "Why the hell didn't you defend me?"

"I guess I never thought of you as defenseless, Lillian," I managed.

"That's bull****. I'm suing the whole damn bunch of you."

===

The lawsuit, Cavett said, crippled McCarthy financially and wrecked her health. She died of lung cancer in 1989.




Lillian, Mary, and Me by Dick Cavett

Updated On: 8/10/10 at 10:12 PM

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 8/12/10 at 7:11pm

that is the one, Mr. Joey sir. The whole play was a rumination on "fact as fiction" (McCarthy) versus "fiction as fact" (Hellman). The songs were Hamlisch i believe with staging by Jerry Mitchell. Swoozie and Cherry Jones in the leads, amazing supporting cast, wonderful visuals. i adored it.